Culture
City-states
Things You Might See
The Golden Age
Mixed Bag
100
a humorous play
What is a comedy?
100
military culture
What is Sparta?
100
Write the Greek letter alpha.
What is Α?
100
a lawmaking group
What is an assembly
100
a slave owned by the state
What is a helot?
200
A messenger running to report the Greek victory over the Persians is the origin of this race
What is a marathon?
200
another name for a city-state
What is a polis?
200
a fort built on the top of a hill that also became a center for religion
What is an acropolis?
200
He thought philosophers would make the best rulers.
Who was Plato?
200
Write the Greek letter omega.
What is Ω?
300
a serious play in which the main character comes to an unhappy end
What is a tragedy?
300
rule by the people
What is democracy?
300
One-fourth pf the Athenian army died from this, an outbreak of a deadly disease
What is plague?
300
the wealthy ruling class
What is the aristocracy?
300
someone who took control of a government by force or other means and ruled alone
What is a tyrant?
400
god of the sea
Who was Poseidon?
400
To prevent attacks, city-stat3es banded together to form these groups of allies
What are leagues?
400
Write the Greek letter delta
What is Δ?
400
After Pericles' death, these bad leaders made promises they couldn't keep and led the assembly to make poor decisions
Who are demagogues?
400
goddess of war and wisdom
Who was Athena?
500
god of music and poetry
Who was Apollo?
500
Citizens from Athens, Sparta, and other Greek city-states united to defeat what people?
Who are the Persians?
500
Write the Greek letter sigma.
What is Σ?
500
This ended the Golden Age of Athens
What is the Peloponnesian War?
500
goddess of love
Who was Aphrodite?
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