Early Greece
Athenian democracy
Sparta
Greek accomplishments
Persian-Greek Wars
100
The first Greek civilization, which was located on the island of Crete.
What is the Minoan?
100
A government run by the people.
What is democracy?
100
Spartan king and leader of the Greek army at the battle of Thermopylae.
Who is Leonidas?
100
Greece's #1 contribution to the world.
What is democracy?
100
The target of the first Persian invasion, when they landed at Marathon.
What is Athens?
200
The marketplace, usually found below the acropolis.
What is the agora?
200
In 300 BC, the approximate percentage of Athenians who could vote.
What is 10%?
200
Leonidas' reply to Xerxes' demand that Sparta surrender their weapons before the Battle of Thermopylae.
What is "Come and take them."
200
A rich religious literature created to make sense of life on Earth: how nature works, where we came from, how to cope with an uncertain world, how we should live.
What is Greek mythology?
200
The Greeks relied on heavy infantry while the Persians relied more on __________ and ___________.
What is archers and cavalry?
300
The main reason that each city-state developed independently of its neighbors, with its own government, customs, and military.
What is geography?
300
The requirements for being eligible to vote in Athens.
What is male, over 20, completed military training, free, and a citizen?
300
Sparta's response to King Philip II's demand that they surrender or face invasion.
What is "If"?
300
A massive international sporting event every 4 years.
What are the Olympics?
300
The Persian emperor during the second invasion of Greece.
Who is Xerxes?
400
A city-state with a military society based on toughness and physical fitness and set up to put down any slave revolt.
What is Sparta?
400
The three groups that governed Athens at the height of its democracy.
What are 1) the Assembly, 2) the Council of 500, and 3) the Courts?
400
Spartan foot soldiers.
What are hoplites?
400
This scholar was considered the greatest scientist and mathematician of ancient Greece. His discoveries include a reliable number for pi, a giant ship-destroying mirror, and the formula for bouyancy, which might have led him to run naked from his bath through the streets.
Who is Archimedes?
400
The Greeks fought, and lost, a famous last stand battle in 480 BC at a mountain pass here. The Greek rear guard is completely destroyed, but will probably never be forgotten.
What is Thermopylae?
500
The home of the major Greek gods.
What is Mt. Olympus?
500
The military and political leader who led Athens during much of its Golden Age of rebuilding.
Who is Pericles?
500
Sparta's unusual form of government.
What is 2 kings?
500
We got it from the Romans, who got it from the Greeks, who got it from the Phoenicians.
What is the alphabet?
500
"1400"
What is the actual number of Greeks in the rearguard at Thermopylae?
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