Earliest Greeks
Rise of the City-States
Golden Age
Alexander the Great
Vocabulary
100
A collection of myths, or traditional stories, handed down from generation to generation.
What is Mythology?
100
The is an open-air market.
What is an agora?
100
Many city-states worked together during these wars, especially Sparta and Athens.
What is the Persian Wars?
100
He taught Alexander about other countries and people?
Who is Aristotle?
100
Seeker of knowledge
What is a scholar?
200
A long poem that tells about important events in the life of a hero or heroes.
What is an epic?
200
This was one reason that Sparta had a military economy instead of a trade economy.
What is an inland location?
200
A deadly disease.
What is a plague?
200
He taught Alexander about being a fearless warrior.
Who was his father, Phillip II.
200
more powerful
What is dominant?
300
The poet wrote that wrote epics about Troy and the Trojan War. The Iliad and the Odyssey were both written by him.
Who is Homer?
300
This is the type of government that the city-state of Athens had. In fact, it was the first one like this in the world.
What is a democracy?
300
This was a 30 year war in which Athens and Sparta were fighting each other.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
300
It was destroyed and it's 30,000 survivors were put into slavery. This was done to keep the other city-states in line.
What is Thebes?
300
This is a fort that is built on top of a hill for protection.
What is an acropolis?
400
The Minoans used a writing system that used these.
What are pictographs?
400
According to their mythology, people of all city-states in Greece had him as a common ancestor.
Who was Hellen?
400
The Golden Age ended because of the Peoponnesian War, the plague, and this.
What is the rise of the demagogues?
400
This is where Alexander the Great had an early victory that gave him more wealth and glory.
What is the Granicus river?
400
A leader that uses fear to control people...a bad leader
What is demagogue?
500
The Mycenaeans borrowed art and writing from these people.
Who were the Minoans?
500
The Greek people were united by mythology, religion, and this.
What is language?
500
He was a philosopher that criticized the government in order to make things better for the Greek people.
Who was Socrates?
500
This was a time (age) when the Greek culture spread across the world. Alexander the Great had a lot to do with it.
What is the Hellenistic Age.
500
This when you keep informed about what is happening in your community, understand others' viewpoints, and be responsible for your actions.
What is acting as a responsible citizen?
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