Vocabulary
This is the marketplace in Athens where merchants traded and slaves were sold.
What is an agora?
This is the modern-day name & location of Persia.
What is Iran?
What feature of Athen's geography impacted its economy?
It was close to the Aegean Sea.
This geographic feature helped isolate and protect Sparta.
What are mountains?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! By making use of a narrow valley, the Greeks defeated the Persians in this battle.
The Battle of Marathon.
This is what you call soldiers on horseback.
What is a cavalry?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! This battle inspired the movie "300" but resulted in huge losses for Spartans.
What is the Battle of Thermopylae?
How did one become a member of Athen's Council of 500?
He was selected to serve.
This intentionally made trade difficult for Spartans.
What is their currency: iron bars.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! Athenian girls received their meager education from whom?
What is from their mothers.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! This is the King who sent messengers to Greece requesting presents of Greek earth & water to show acceptance of Persian Rule.
Who is King Darius?
Because the Greeks knew the waterways so well and were able to convince the Persians that they were retreating, they beat the Persians in this battle.
What is the Battle of Salamis?
Athens traded this important food source from Egypt.
What is grain to eat?
In Sparta, boys and girls both received training in this.
What is military combat?
These are rights that Sparta women had but Athens women did not.
What are owning property and remarrying?
The Peloponnesus refers to what geographical feature?
This ended the Greco-Persian wars.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! How many citizens needed to be present for a meeting of the Asssembly of Athens to take place?
What is 6000?
This group made most of the important decisions in Sparta.
Who are the Council of Elders?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY! When you source a document, it is important to know at least three things to help determine reliability. What are they?
Who wrote/said it (is it biased?), when it was produced (what is the context), and why it was produced (i.e. who is the intended audience).
Because a small group of wealthy, powerful men held the most power in Sparta, it is said to have been a what?
What is an oligarchy?
These are two important results of the Greco-Persian Wars.
What are the Greeks winning but Athens being destroyed?
Describe the differences in the education Athenian boys and girls received.
Boys learned reading, writing, arithmetic, and literature whereas girls learned songs and dances.
This is what conquered people were forced to do if Sparta conquered them.
What is give up most of their crops and work for the Spartans.
When investigating a historical problem or event and making a claim, it is always important to have corroborating sources or pieces of evidence. What does that mean?
It means you should look for multiple pieces of evidence or source to support your argument or investigation into the facts.