Vocabulary
Athens and Sparta
Pericles
Military
Hodge-Podge
100
The geographic landform of Greece - land with water in 3 sides
What is a peninsula?
100
All Spartan men served in the military until this age...
What is 60?
100
The type of government that Pericles strongly supported.
What is Democracy?
100
A Spartan foot soldier's title.
What is a hoplite?
100
Members of a community who have rights and responsibilities. In early times, only male landowners had this title.
What is a citizen?
200
The type of poem that Homer wrote and they were memorized and passed down through oral tradition.
What is an epic poem?
200
Two animals that were commonly raised around Athens
What are sheep and goats?
200
This is how Pericles died.
What is the Plague?
200
A common formation used by Spartan soldiers which created a human wall.
What is a phalanx?
200
The Minoans lived here.
What is on the island of Crete.
300
Settlement in a new territory that keeps close ties to its homeland
What is a colony?
300
Three things that all Athenian boys studied in school.
What are sports, music, and school subjects (math, history..)?
300
The "Age of Pericles" is also called this when we talk about ancient Greece.
What is "The Golden Age of Greece"?
300
The three pieces of a soldier's equipment.
What are a spear, a shield, and a sword?
300
The type of government that is practiced by STUCO at CMS.
What is a representative democracy?
400
Open area in Greece used as a marketplace.
What is the agora?
400
How did women cook in an Athenian home?
What is with an open fire?
400
He believed that even the _______________ should be able to serve in public office.
What is the poor?
400
What formation did the Spartans use in battle that was very effective against the enemy?
What is the phalanx?
400
When few people hold power in the government such as in Sparta it is called this.
What is an Oligarchy?
500
Type of government where ALL citizens vote and share in decision making.
What is a direct democracy?
500
The city-states of Sparta and Athens each had one type of military that they excelled in.
What is Sparta - Army? Athens-Navy?
500
Pericles hired the workers to build this famous building in Athens.
What is the Parthenon?
500
In which battle did the Greeks defeat the Persians and then sent a runner back to Athens to deliver the news of victory?
What is the Battle of Marathon?
500
These were Spartan slaves which at one time outnumbered the Spartan citizens.
What are the helots?
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