What is the Greek word for city-state?
Polis
What was the main battle of the first Persian War?
Marathon
What was the Parthenon?
A temple to Athena
What was the name of the Greek-mafia-esque empire that Athens built after the Persian Wars?
Delian League
Which Macedonian king improved the phalanx and conquered most of Greece?
Philip II
What kind of government was practiced in Sparta?
Oligarchy -- rule by a few
What military formation was used by the Greeks during the Persian Wars?
Phalanx - shield wall
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were famous...
Philosophers
What group did Sparta establish to compete with Athens?
Peloponnesian League
Which Macedonian king conquered the Persian Empire?
Alexander the Great
What kind of government was practiced in Athens during the Golden Age?
Direct democracy
Thermopylae - "Hot Gates"
Medicine
What was Athens' strategy in the Peloponnesian War
Built wall, refused to fight on land, used navy
What does the word "Hellenism" mean?
Of Greek origin
Who was allowed to vote in Athens? MUST get all 4 characteristics.
Free adult male citizens
How did the Greeks defeat the Persians during the 2nd Persian War?
Navy
Euclid and Pythagoras developed what branch of academics?
Math
Sparta
When Alexander died, how many parts was his empire divided into?
3
M-A-T-D is the acronym for the evolution of government in Athens. Name all 4 stages of Athenian governemnt.
Monarchy, Aristocracy, Tyranny, Democracy
Which polis became the dominant city-state after the Persian Wars?
Athens
What were the three types of columns in ancient Greece?
Doric, Ionic, Corinthian
What was the result of the Peloponnesian War
Weakened Greece, made them easy to invade by Philip II and Alexander
What was the name of the general who took the Egyptian section of Alexander's empire?
Hint: Cleopatra was a descendant
Ptolemy