These people were allowed to vote in the developing democracy in Athens.
Who are only the free men?
200
A sheltered place along a coast.
What is a harbor?
200
A territory or community ruled by another government.
What is a colony?
200
The two main crops of the Greeks.
What are olives and grapes?
200
Around the 800s B.C. the Phoenicians began to do this:
What is establish colonies along the Mediterranean Sea?
200
These people had very few rights in Greece.
What are women and slaves?
300
A Greek city-state.
What is a polis?
300
A person with certain rights and responsibilities to their community in which they live.
What is a citizen?
300
The largest Greek city-state.
What is Sparta?
300
The Phoencians used this sea creature to make their famous purple dye.
What is the murex?
300
Building a strong military was important to the people of this city-state.
What is Sparta?
400
An area of land surrounded by water.
What is a peninsula?
400
A government of one ruler.
What is a monarchy?
400
The main reason why it was important for the Phoenicians and Greeks to develop trading networks
What is they had very poor farmland?
400
Main reason why the Assyrians and Babylonians wanted to control Phoenicia.
What is they had grown rich exchanging cedar wood and cloth?
400
Examples of how life was the same in Sparta and Athens:
What are they had the same religious beliefs, they had festivals and competitions, they were independent, they had an acropolis and an agora, and they both read poems by Homer?
500
A community market and meeting place.
What is an agora?
500
A large hill where residents went for safety.
What is an acropolis?
500
The advantage the Mediterranean Sea offered that a river did not to a developing civilization.
What is the Sea leads to many more places, which helps with trading and growing as a culture?
500
Reason why the Phoenician's power was weakened along the Mediterranean.
What is the Assyrian empire and Babylonian empire began to take over?
500
Examples of how Sparta and Athens were different:
What are they had different forms of government, they had different ideas about the military, and the duties of the girls were not the same?