The people who developed an advanced culture and made an important contribution to Greek civilization.
What is the Minoans?
100
Three ways that Athens grew rich during the Golden Age of Athens.
What is trading, silver mining, and collecting a tribute?
100
All greek cities had these public markets and meeting places.
What is an agora?
100
Servants of Sparta who did all of the farm work so that the Spartans had time to go off and fight.
Who are the helots?
100
In Athens, only these people could be citizens. As a citizen they had to have two parents who came from families in citizenship.
Who are men?
200
According to a myth, Greece conquered Troy by using a trick.
What is the Trojan Horse?
200
The most powerful man in Athenianpolitics. A member of an aristrocratic family but supported democracy.
Who is Pericles?
200
Where most Athenian women spent their days.
What is home?
200
Describe the life for women in Sparta.
What is they were allowed to own land and take part in business.
200
The three kinds of governments that developed in the Greek city-statesafter Greece's Dark Ages.
What are aristrocrats, tyrants, and democracy?
300
Families built farms near rocky protected hills. There they built fortifications and other structures to protect themselves from attak.
What is acropolis?
300
Came together for a festival and games every four years to honor Zeus.
What are the Olympics?
300
The reason many slaves in Greece were foreigners.
Why were some Greeks uncomfortable owning other Greeks?
300
Describe the battle at Marathon.
Thousands of persians landed in Greece. The Persians outnumbered the Athenians. Without warning, Athens attacked Persia killing 6,400 Persians. Eventually the Greeks drove the Persians away.
300
Three important philosophers who taught in Athens.
Who are Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle?
400
Controlled most of the good land in city-states. They owned horses, chariots, and the best weapons.
What is aristrocrats?
400
Sacred sites where a god or goddess was consulted. Greeks would ask gods for advice or for predictions about the future.
What are oracles?
400
The kinds of food Athenians ate.
What is bread, cheese, fish, olives, vegetables, and fruit?
400
A conflict between Athens and Sparta that lasted 27 years.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
400
A temple to the goddess of Athena.
What is the Parthenon?
500
A leader who changed Athen's laws. One law canceled all debts, or money owed to other people, and freed citizens who have been enslaved for having debts.
Who is Solon?
500
Believed that people could use the powers of the mindand reason to understand natural events.
What are philosophers?
500
Describe the life in Sparta compared to Athens.
What is harsh, tough, grom, fighting....
500
One third of Athens' people died from this. Among the dead was Pericles.
What is the plague?
500
A type of serious drama that usually ends in disaster for the main character.