Civic Life & Gov.
Persian Wars
Golden Age
Peloponnesian War
Hellenism
100

What is the Greek word for city-state?

Polis

100

What was the main battle of the first Persian War?

Marathon

100

What was the Parthenon?

A temple to Athena

100

What was the name of the Greek-mafia-esque empire that Athens built after the Persian Wars?

Delian League

100

Which Macedonian king improved the phalanx and conquered most of Greece?

Philip II 

200

What kind of government was practiced in Sparta?

Oligarchy -- rule by a few

200

What military formation was used by the Greeks during the Persian Wars?

Phalanx - shield wall

200

Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle were famous...

Philosophers

200

What group did Sparta establish to compete with Athens?

Peloponnesian League

200

Which Macedonian king conquered the Persian Empire?

Alexander the Great

300

What kind of government was practiced in Athens during the Golden Age?

Direct democracy

300
During what battle did 300 Spartans hold off the Persian army for 7 days?

Thermopylae - "Hot Gates"

300
Hippocrates was called the "Father of _____"

Medicine

300

What was Athens' strategy in the Peloponnesian War

Built wall, refused to fight on land, used navy

300

What does the word "Hellenism" mean?

Of Greek origin

400

Who was allowed to vote in Athens? MUST get all 4 characteristics.

Free adult male citizens

400

How did the Greeks defeat the Persians during the 2nd Persian War?

Navy

400

Euclid and Pythagoras developed what branch of academics?

Math

400
Who won the Peloponnesian War?

Sparta

400

When Alexander died, how many parts was his empire divided into?

500

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

500

Which polis became the dominant city-state after the Persian Wars?

Athens

500

What were the three types of columns in ancient Greece?

Doric, Ionic, Corinthian

500

What was the result of the Peloponnesian War

Weakened Greece, made them easy to invade by Philip II and Alexander

500

What was the name of the general who took the Egyptian section of Alexander's empire? 

Hint: Cleopatra was a descendant

Ptolemy

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