Members of a rich and powerful family that once ruled ancient Greece.
What is an aristocrat?
100
Because of the geography of ancient Greece, the Greek communities developed these.
What are separate customs and beliefs?
100
It was a public meeting place in an ancient Greek city.
What is the Agora
100
Unlike Athens, in ancient Sparta the government concentrated all its resources to these.
What are brave and skillful warriors?
100
In Greek mythology they were what caused many things in nature.
What are 12 gods led by Zeus
200
A ruler who takes power by force.
What is a tyrant
200
It is an area of land that is surrounded by water on most sides but connected to the mainland by a narrow strip of land.
What is a peninsula?
200
They counted as 1/3 of the population.
What are slaves?
200
They are members of a certain class of servants in ancient Sparta.
What are helots?
200
The Golden Age was a time of great wealth but the Dark Age was a time of this.
What is poverty.
300
Regular payments made to a powerful state or nation by a weaker one.
What is tribute?
300
It is a fortified city on a hill and served as protection.
What is an Acropolis?
300
Pericles help strengthen this.
What is democracy?
300
It was a conflict between Athens and Sparta that lasted 27 years.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
300
The Acropolis was the source of Athenian religious life but the Agora was the source of this.
What is public life.
400
He was the king of Macedonia, conquered Persia and Egypt and invaded India.
Who is Alexander the Great
400
The geography of ancient Greece made it hard for communities to do this.
What is unify.
400
An "Age" when Athens gained wealth and made great achievements in art.
What is the Golden Age?
400
This killed about a third of Athenians during their war against Sparta and lasted 5 years.
What is a plague?
400
Athens was never the again leader of the Greek world after this.
What is the Peloponnesian War
500
Describing Greek culture or history after the death of Alexander the great, including the three main kingdoms formed by the breakup of Alexander's empire.
What is Hellenistic?
500
People who controlled the good land would be this.
What is rich.
500
An "Age" when Athenians forgot the skill of writing.
What is the Dark Age.
500
Spartans staged one of these which is an action to isolate an enemy and cut off its supplies.
What is a blockade?
500
Under the leadership of Alexander the Great, Greece's empire did this.