Definitions
A piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides
What is a Peninsula
Greece is in what Continent?
What is Europe?
What is the only 'job' a man could have in Sparta?
What is soldier/military?
What are stories that people tell to explain beliefs about their world
What is Myths
How long did the Persian war last?
What is one day
A city-state in ancient Greece
What is a Polis
True or False: The Persian Empire and Alexander the Great's Empire had overlapping territory?
What is true
Who could be a citizen of Athens?
What is a male?
What is a brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters
What is a Fable
What is marathon
Government in which citizens make political decisions
What is democracy
What city-state is on the Peloponnese
What is Sparta
The home for the God's and Goddesses was where?
What are stories passed down through generations and from long poems that told stories
What is Epic Poems
The Peloponnesian War lasted how many years?
What is 27 years
a gathering of citizens who met to make decisions about their city
What is an assembly
Why was the sea important to Ancient Greece?
What is the space called where they held meetings, markets, and other gatherings?
What is agora?
During the plague in Athens, the cities lost one of its greatest leaders (during the golden age). Who was it?
Who is Pericles?
The members of the assembly began to follow bad leaders called what? (End of the Golden Age)
What are demagogues
A government in which power is in the hands of those that descended from high-born ancestors
What is an aristocracy
What are the seas that surround Greece
What is the Aegean Sea, the Ionian Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea
Why do city-states exist?
The period between Alexander's conquest and the rise of the Roman Empire is known as what age?
What is Hellenistic?
What caused the Greek city-states to band together?
What is the Persian enemy