The Early Days
What are islands?
This was the name for a central marketplace in a polis
What is an agora?
This was the name for individuals who seized power by force from aristocrats
What are tyrants?
Persia was the largest and most powerful one of these at this time in history
What is an empire?
Athens formed this alliance following the Persian Wars
What is the Delian League?
The Minoan civilization was located on this island
This was the name for the religious center of a polis
What is an acropolis?
This government style can be described as "rule by many"
What is a democracy?
This Persian Emperor was responsible for starting the Persian Wars with Greece
Who is Darius the Great?
This polis famously refused to join the Athens-led Delian League
Who is Sparta?
This war featuring the Mycenaeans was won using a trap known as the 'Trojan Horse'
What is the Trojan War?
Each polis had it's own one of these to protect the people from invasions
What is a military?
This government style can be described as 'rule by a select few"
What is an oligarchy?
This veteran of the Battle of Marathon ran 26.2 miles back to Athens to deliver news of victory
Who is Pheidippides
This political leader in Athens instituted a direct democracy
Who is Pericles?
This seafaring group of people were responsible for passing along an alphabet to the Greeks
Who are the Phoenicians?
This is a person who belongs, has rights, and responsibilities to a polis
What is a citizen?
Other than two kings, this group was responsible for managing Spartan government
What are the Council of Five Ephors?
This battle saw the brave 300 Spartans defend their ground from Xerxes' army
What is the battle of Thermopylae?
Athens created a powerful one of these to enforce their authority in the Mediterranean Sea
What is a navy?
This Dark Age poet wrote epics that preserved the history of early Greece
Who is Homer?
These two requirements were needed in order to be a citizen of a polis
What is to be male and own property?
This group in Athens debated and voted on government affairs
What is the Council of 500?
This group defeated the Persians for good at the Battle of Plataea
Who are the Greeks?
This conflict saw Sparta defeat Athens with a lengthy 25 year long siege
What is the Great Peloponnesian War?