Geography
This geographic feature defines Greece as having water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
Athens primarily relied on this for their economy.
What is trade?
Sparta relied on these two things for their economy.
What are farming and military conquest?
These independent locations were similar to independent nations but with a shared culture.
What is a city-state?
This is the main religion of the Persian empire.
What is Zoroastrianism?
This geographic feature led to independent Greek city states
What are mountains?
Athenians valued this above everything else.
What is education?
Spartans valued this above everything else.
What is military strength?
This was a place where people could meet, discuss ideas, and trade goods.
What is an agora?
This king founded the Persian empire.
Who was Cyrus the great?
This body of water allowed Greece to trade with other civilizations.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This man was the first leader to support democracy in Athens.
Who is Solon?
This Spartan king led his soldiers at the Battle of Thermopylae.
Who was King Leonidus?
This was a fighting style used by the Greeks.
What is a phalanx?
This king led the Persian forces at the Battle of Thermopylae.
Who is Xerxes?
The climate and access to food and water helped people choose to settle here.
This leader gave citizenship to Athenians who did not own land.
Who is Peisistratus?
This form of government is where a few powerful people control society, and was also Sparta's government.
What is an oligarchy?
This was the term used for slaves captured by the Spartans.
What is a helot?
This famous race is named after a famous battle.
What is the Battle of Marathon?
How did Greece's geography shape its culture?
The mountains separated Greeks leading to independent city states, while the proximity to the Mediterranean Sea led to Greeks becoming sea-traders with other civilizations.
These were the two legislative bodies that governed Athens under Cleisthenes.
What are the Assembly and the Council of 500?
These officials were in charge of collecting taxes in Sparta.
What is an ephor?
This term describes a person who seizes power and rules by themselves.
What is a tyrant?
How were the Greeks able to defeat the larger Persian empire?
They used a series of traps and tricks as well as strategy to defeat the Persians.