Location and Land
Government and the Rise of Democracy
Athens and the Golden Age
Sparta
Fighting the Persian Wars
100
Land surrounded by water on three sides
What makes much of Greece a peninsula?
100
The type of government that began in ancient Greece and ruled for many years
What is monarchy?
100
Led the government during the "Golden Age"?
Who is Pericles?
100
Used _______ to discourage theft and trade with other city-states
What are heavy iron bars?
100
An advantage that Greece had over the Persians
What is military strategy/better equipment? What is being allied? What is knowledge of geography?
200
The continent on which Greece is located
What is Europe?
200
The kinds of laws that benefit the rich and the elite, never the poor
What are the laws that the oligarchy pass?
200
To honor the goddess Athena
Why was the Parthenon built?
200
Who did the Spartans fight at the Battle of Thermopylae
Who are the Persians
200
The Persian army punished the Ionians
What is the outcome of the Ionian Revolt?
300
The Greeks relied on the sea, and the sea god ________ for travel and trade
What is Poseidon?
300
The kind of government that allows an individual to rule by military force
What is tyranny?
300
In ancient Athens, people bought leather sandals at
What is the Agora?
300
Women saw more rights than Athenian women, how?
What is right to own property?
300
Such gifts would mean that the Greeks had accepted Persian rule
What is Greek earth and water?
400
The geographic elements that affected communication and isolated Greek communities
What are mountains?
400
How ancient Athens voted directly on issues rather than appointing representatives like in the U.S.
What is Direct Democracy?
400
Ancient Athens had been totally destroyed
What is the end of the Persian Wars?
400
Why Sparta was considered an oligarchy
What is a small few group of people(Council of Elders) held the power?
400
The Persians defeated the Spartans
What is The Battle of Thermopylae?
500
Ancient Greeks try to solve the problem of the shortage of farmland
What are colonies?
500
The ruling power of Sparta was in the hands of a few people who were called the
What is Council of Elders
500
The Greeks believed the gods lived there
What is Mount Olympus?
500
Both boys and girls got military training
What is education in Sparta?
500
Xerxes crosses this to go from Asia into Europe
What is Hellespont?
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