Terms
Ruled by one.
What is a monarchy?
Was invaded by a wooden horse.
What is troy?
War between the Persians and the Greeks (Persia under King Darius I)
What are the Persian Wars?
The king of god's and men.
What is Zeus?
Drove Athens to achieve cultural heights like no other in ancient times.
Who is Pericles?
A city in Greece.
What is a Polis?
Started a nation and took over the Lydians and parts of Greek cities in Asia Minor, early rulers being King Darius I and King Xerxes.
What is Persia?
The Battle of the 300, not allowing entrance of the mountain pass to the Persians, but betrayed by a Greek.
What is the battle of Thermopylae?
Patron of the city of Athens
What is Athena?
Wrote "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey".
Who is Homer?
Voting by qualified adult citizens for the deciding of a leader.
What is a democracy.
Earliest center of Aegean Civilization.
What is the Minoan Civilization?
A great naval battle, occurred after the burning of Athens.
What is the battle of Salamis Bay?
Rules over the Sea and earthquakes.
What is Poseidon?
Took most land around Asia Minor, but was defeated in a revolt from Athens.
Who is King Darius I?
Former inhabitant made a slave.
What is a Helot?
Established by invaders from the North, on the mainland of Greece where another center of Aegean Civilization emerged.
What is the Mycenaean Civilization?
The war between the city states of Sparta and Athens.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
The god of the sun, music and medicine.
What is Apollo?
Took his fathers organized invasion that was not yet launched and continued his invasion.
Who is Xerxes?
Having human characteristics and form.
Located in the southern part of Greece, in Peloponnesus.
What is Sparta?
An account of Herodotus that said of Athenians and Persians rushing toward each other for battle, he recorded the Athenians fighting in a way "Worthy of being recorded".
What is the battle of Marathon?
The god of hunting and wild animals.
What is Artemis?
Advanced Democracy around 594 BC.
Who is Solon