Rise of Greek Civilization
Sparta
Greece and Persia
The Rule of Pericles
Athens
100
Greece was the _______ civilization to develop in Europe.
What is first?
100
As Greek city-states grew, wealthy nobles took power from kings. Many became these, as they seized power to have total authority.
What are tyrants?
100
This King brought Mesopotamia, Syria, Judah, and Anatolia under Persian Rule.
Who was King Cyrus?
100
After the Persian Wars ended, Athens became powerful and confident under the leadership of this man.
Who was Pericles?
100
Athens was very different from this rival Greek city-state.
What is Sparta?
200
These physical features make up the land of Greece.
What are peninsulas, islands (archipelagos), the Aegean and Ionian Seas, and the Mediterranean Sea?
200
Tyrants gained support from citizens, like hoplites (citizen soldiers), but most citizens wanted this type of government.
What is a government in which all citizens could participate? (democracy)
200
As the Persian Empire expanded, Darius I had to reorganize Persia because it had grown. He had governors of his provinces rule. They were called these.
What were satraps?
200
DAILY DOUBLE!! -- worth 400 points Pericles made Athens a more democratic city-state after the Persian Wars. Athens practiced a direct democracy, whereas the United States practices a representative democracy. These good things came from Pericles' leadership.
What were: Athens became a center of learning and arts. Athens became a place for writers, artists, teachers, sculptors, architects, and philosophers to flourish. Athens was called "the school of Greece"?
200
Whereas Spartans' education was military based (including for women, who also worked in the homes), Athenians studied these subjects.
What are arithmetic, geometry, drawing, music, and public speaking if you were a boy. Girls were educated in the home and might learn to read and write if they were from a wealthy family.
300
DAILY DOUBLE! -- Worth 600 points On a map, point out one of Greece's peninsulas.
Show map at http://mapmaker.nationalgeographic.org/
300
Most city-states developed one of two types of governments as they got rid of tyrants. These were a government that included all citizens OR a government in which a few wealthy people had authority. Give us the types of government.
What is a democracy (all citizens have a part) and an oligarchy (a few people have authority)?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!! -- Worth 600 points Explain how the Greeks defeated the Persian Army at Marathon.
What is: The Persian king Darius sent 600 ships and 20,000 soldiers to Marathon to fight the Athenians, only 10,000 soldiers. When the Athenians refused to fight, the Persians sent out their cavalry onto the plain of Marathon, but the Athenians defeated the foot soldiers caught unawares and defeated the Persians. The runner who passed the news on ran a "marathon", yelled "Victory" according to legend, and fell over dead.
300
This is what made direct democracy work in Athens.
What is it had a small number of citizens?
300
Cleisthenes made Athens' assembly its governing body. Males could still participate and vote and discuss cases freely. His reforms made Athens' government more this.
What is more democratic, but not completely democratic?
400
The geography of Greece allowed the Ancient Greeks to do these things.
What are trading goods and ideas between islands and along the area's coastlines. They were able to fish like Greeks do today. There were farming communities. Many communities were separated by mountains.?
400
DAILY DOUBLE!! -- For 800 points Describe the events that caused Sparta to become a military-based society.
What are enslaved laborers, called helots, revolted against their masters, to create a military society that stressed discipline. Boys and men 7 years and older were soldiers for life. Spartan boys were treated harshly.
400
After the Persian defeat at Persia, this happened with the new Persian king, Xerxes (also called Ahasereus in the Bible).
What is King Leonidas of Sparta and 300 Spartans fought to the death when they didn't win at Thermopylae. The Persians still won. :(
400
These were the years Pericles ruled.
What is 461 B.c. - 429 B.C.?
400
This is how men and women spent their time from day-to-day.
What is: Men worked in the morning, spent afternoons exercising at the gymnasium, and discussed politics or philosophy in the evenings if they were rich. Women remained at home but socialized most during events like funerals and festivals. Women did not attend school, and foreign women had more freedom socially than Athenian women.
500
This is how Greek's thought of their separate communities.
What are as small separate countries?
500
Sparta was this type of government (you have to give the official name/type of government).
What is an oligarchy?
500
This was the man who "finished off" a weak Persian Empire.
Who was Alexander (the Great)?
500
This is how Athens was able to become a direct democracy.
What is Athenians met every 10 days in meetings, to discuss political issues. Because Athens had a small citizenship, it was able to manage a direct democracy. Citizens with voting rights could vote, and laws were proposed in the council and approved by a majority in the assembly.?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!! -- Worth 1000 points Explain how the Peloponnesian War came about.
What is: Athens was the strongest city-state, and eventually it ruled over other city-states, because Pericles helped Athens dominate the other city-states. Sparta and Athens did not trust each other. Sparta led an alliance against Athens, which led to war.
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