Introduction
This author/poet wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
Homer
Athens government was a ________
democracy
Slaves in Sparta were called ___________
helots
King Leonidas of Sparta withstood the Persians with only ________ men
300
lover of wisdom
philosopher
Greece is on a peninsula that reaches out into the ___________ Sea.
Mediterranean
__________ gave Athens laws with very severe punishments. Today we have a word to describe these types of laws
Draco
Sparta was originally a land of ________ and _________ before they became focused on warfare.
poets and artists
King Darius of Persia had a son named ___________ who continued the wars against Greece
Xerxes
government by a king, queen, emperor
monarchy
Greece is known as the Cradle of ________________.
Western Civilization
Was Athens a Direct Democracy or an Indirect Democracy?
Direct
Sparta's government was an ___________
oligarchy
___________ ran 26 miles to Athens to tell the news of the Battle of __________
Pheidippides
Marathon
political rule by all the people governed
democracy
Greek people called themselves ____________
Hellenes
___________ led Athens during the Golden Age after the Persian Wars
Pericles
Tell the Spartan story of the fox
Various answers
The 300 men held off the Persians at the Battle of ___________
Thermopylae
political rule by a small group of people
oligarchy
The two greatest warriors during the Trojan war were __________ (Trojan) and ___________ (Greek)
Hector and Achilles
___________ made a Council of 500 to represent the people.
Cleisthenes
Boys began training for war beginning at age
Seven
The Greeks won victory over the Spartans at the Battle of ___________
Salamis
a form of speaking a particular language that belongs to a certain group or class of people
dialect