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100

These brightly colored paintings at Knossos show us the Minoans were connected with the sea.

What are frescoes

100

He is the archeologist responsible for discovering Troy and proving that there was historical fact behind the legend.

Who is Heinrich Schliemann

100

The high area in every Greek city-state

What is the acropolis

100

During the Hellenistic period this happened to the role of women in Greece.

What is expanded.

100

Greek sculptors tried to make statues that showed these.

What are realistic, lifelike humans.

200

This type of military battle formation helped pushed Athens towards democracy

What is a phalanx

200
We give him credit for writing the Illiad and the Odyssey, stories that describe Mycenaean society.

Who is Homer

200

This area in a Greek city-state usually contained a market, theaters, some temples, gyms and schools.

What is the agora.

200

She was in charge of cultural development in Athens during its Golden Age.

Who is Aspasia

200

They were the real losers in the Peloponnesian Wars.

Who is all of Greece

300

This temple dedicated to Athena in Athens and ordered by Pericles is an example of balance in Greek architecture.

What is the Parthenon

300

This archeologist discovered ruins at Knossos on the island of Crete and named the civilization Minoan.

Who is Sir Arthur Evans

300

The economic success of the Minoan civilization was based on this. 

What is trade.

300

In Athens, women were treated as these.

What are second class citizens.

300

Alexander the Great's father.

Who was Philip II

400

Cleisthenes introduced the Council of 500 in Athens.  It was the first example of this in history.

What is a legislature

400

This runner ran approximately 24 miles from Marathon to Athens, cried out Nike and then died of exhaustion.

Who is Phidippides

400

Alexander the Great's empire extended east all the way to this river.

What is the Indus

400

This Greek philosopher declared that women are morally equal to men.

Who is Zeno

400

He was the father of modern physics.

Who was Archimedes.

500

Greek geography tended to do this to the city-states

What is isolate.

500

This civilization dominated the Aegean world from about 1400 BCE to 1200 BCEE and probably started the Trojan War.

Who were the Mycenaeans

500

Rowers were the real heroes in this sea battle during the Second Persian War.

What is Salamis

500

They had much more responsibility than Greek women in other city-states.

Who are Spartan women.

500

This Greek city-state was famous for its singers.

What is Sparta

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