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Sparta
100
Greeks based their alphabet upon what other culture's alphabet?
Who are the Phoenicians?
100
Which city-state focused on government and learning?
What is Athens?
100
Complete this sentence: In a ________________, every citizen decides government matters.
What is a direct democracy?
100
Who were thinkers that pondered questions about life?
What is philosophers?
100
What did the Spartans believe was important to be strong?
What is a strong body (military)?
200
Who came from Central Asia?
Who are the Mycenaeans?
200
What were the qualifications to be a citizen of a Greek city-state?
What is be free, be a man and own land?
200
What took 20,000 tons of marble and 15 years to build?
What is the Parthenon?
200
Who made Athens more democratic?
Who is Pericles?
200
How did Spartans expand their power?
What is conquer neighboring lands?
300
The Delian Leagues formed to protect the Greeks from which people?
Who are the Persians?
300
How did early greek city states survive? In other words, what were their jobs?
What is herders, farmers, traders, fishermen, sailors?
300
What are Persian provinces called?
What is Satrapies?
300
What group of people brought iron weapons to the Greeks?
Who are Dorians?
300
At this age Spartan men could return home.
What is 30?
400
Name the three Kings of Persia.
Who are Cyrus, Darius and Xerxes.
400
What is like a tiny, independent country?
What is a polis?
400
What is a narrow body of water with land on both sides called?
What is a strait?
400
What are ordinary citizens in the army called?
What is hoplites?
400
Who enforced the laws and collected taxes in Sparta?
What are Ephors?
500
Which leader became popular by giving land to landless farmers?
Who is Peisistratus?
500
What was an open area used for a meeting place and market called?
What is an agora?
500
This was a time when reading and writing was lost (600B.C.).
What is the Dark Ages?
500
This was a time of creativity and learning in Athens.
What is the Age of Pericles?
500
Sparta had this type of government.
What is an Oligarchy?
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