Types of Government
General Vocab.
Wars/Battles
Important People
Alexander and Beyond
100
A government in which all citizens share in running the government.
What is democracy?
100
Land with water on three sides
What is a peninsula?
100
The group of people that the Greek fought many battles against.
Who are the Persians?
100
The man who united and led Greece during the Golden Age.
Who is Pericles?
100
The region where Alexander was from.
What is Macedonia?
200
A type of government where a few people hold power.
What is an oligarchy?
200
A settlement in a new territory that keeps close ties to its homeland.
What is a colony?
200
The two main city-states in Greece with power.
What are Sparta and Athens?
200
The king of the gods of mythology.
Who is Zeus?
200
Philip's dream, which Alexander fulfilled.
What is the invasion of the Persian Empire?
300
A type of government in which one ruler takes power by force and rules on their own.
What is a tyranny?
300
A city-state that acts like a tiny independent country
What is a polis?
300
The battle where the Greeks attempted to trap the Persians in a valley between two mountains.
What is Thermopylae?
300
The author of "The Iliad," an epic poem telling of the war between Sparta and Troy.
Who is Homer?
300
The shape that the Greeks discovered that the earth is.
What is round?
400
A type of democracy where all citizens gather at mass meetings to decide on government matters.
What is a direct democracy?
400
A leader who takes power by force
What is a tyrant?
400
The son of Darius, the King of Persia who waged war against Greece.
Who is Xerxes?
400
The Greek philosopher who created the Socratic Method.
Who is Socrates?
400
Spreading Greek ideas throughout the empire.
What was Alexander's major contribution?
500
A type of government in which the citizens choose a smaller group to make laws and governmental decisions on their behalf.
What is a representative democracy?
500
The name for the 20 provinces that Darius divided the Persian empire into.
What are satrapies?
500
The name for the war between the Spartans and Athenians.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
500
The philosopher who rejected the idea of democracy.
Who is Plato?
500
What Hippocrates stressed was important for doctors to look for in patients.
What are symptoms?
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