He carries the sun across the sky and is son of Zeus
What is Apollo?
100
Settled on Crete
Women had higher status than other women
Got living from sea trade
What is Minoans?
100
singing story-tellers
What is a bard?
100
a nobleman
What is an aristocrat?
100
Wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
What is Homer?
200
The goddess of wisdom and art
What is Athena?
200
Originated among the Indo-European peoples
Each kingdom centered on a hilltop
Conquered the Minoans and controlled the Aegean area
What is Myceneans?
200
maze
What is a labyrinth?
200
someone who takes part in the government
What is a citizen?
200
a German archaeologist that claimed that Troy actually existed and was a major trading city
What is Heinrich Schliemann
300
The goddess of love and beauty
What is Aphrodite?
300
Named their polis after the goddess Athena
Established city-state called Athens
Boys went to school at 7 and graduated at 18
Had 2 years of military service before the army
What is Athenians?
300
government by the people
What is a democracy?
300
a few wealthy people hold power
What is an oligarchy?
300
became the leader of Athens in 594 B.C.
What is Solon?
400
The goddess of agriculture.
What is Demeter?
400
Boys entered the military at 7 years old
Women were treated just like men
Women married at 19
What is Spartans?
400
plan of government
What is a constitution?
400
a drinking session following a banquet
What is a symposium?
400
the fourth leader to help reform Athens and came to power in 508 B.C.
What is Cleisthenes?
500
The chief god
What is Zeus?
500
Greek-speaking
Armed with iron weapons
They easily overran the mainland
What is Dorians?
500
the art of public speaking
What is a rhetoric?
500
a hired soldier
What is a mercenary?
500
invaded Greece from the North with 200,000 soldiers