An archon who settled disputes between creditors and debtors by erasing the debts of the poor and outlawing slavery for debt.
Who is Solon?
100
A series of conflicts between Greece and Persia, lasting 21 years.
What is the Persian Wars.
100
Athens is known as the birthplace of democracy, a form of government in which the citizens take part.
What is the birthplace of democracy?
100
The lowest group in Spartan society, becoming the slaves of the city-state.
Who are the Helots?
100
The study of oratory, or public speaking, and debate.
What is Rhetoric?
200
Seized power in about 507 b.c. and turned Athens into a democracy by dividing the people into 10 tribes and having each tribe choose 50 men to form the Council of Five Hundred.
Who is Cliesthenes?
200
Tension between Athens and Sparta mounted in a series of conflicts.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
200
Citizens
Metics
Slaves
What are the 3 social classes in Athens?
200
An alliance of city-states with Athens as its leader.
What is the Delian League?
200
Organized into clans made up of groups of families, and tribes made up of groups of clans.
What is the social organization of Mycenaean society?
300
A blind poet, believed to have been the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
300
A conflict in which “300” spartans held the Persian army from advancing for 3 days.
What is the Battle of Thermopylae?
300
The Equals
Half-citizens
Helots
What are the 3 social classes in Sparta?
300
Greek city-states that were controlled by nobles.
What is an aristocracy?
300
Myths.
What is stories about gods/goddesses/heros created to explain their world?
400
An archon, who is believed to have created Athens’s first written law code around 621 b.c..
Who is Draco?
400
A good sent out of your region and into another.
What is an export?
400
He ruled over Athens as a tyrant between 546 b.c. and 527 b.c..
Who is Peisistratus?
400
An important contest to exhibit strength and bravery, held every four years in honor of Zeus.
What are the Olympic Games?
400
The 3 things Greeks look for from religion.
What is to explain nature, to explain the emotions that cause people to lose self-control, because they believed it would give them certain benefits here and now?
500
A great general, orator, and statesman under whose rule Athens reached its peak of power and wealth.
Who is Pericles?
500
The cause of the Persian War.
What is the uprising of Greeks in Asia Minor, aided by Athens.
500
A form of government in which the citizens themselves participate in making decisions.
What is a direct democracy?
500
A new kind of non-aristocrat soldier, were heavy infantry, who carried long spears and fought in tightly spaced rows.
What is a Hoplite Soldier?
500
population of less than 10,000
covering a small geographic region
had an agora
built on an acropolis
sense of identity
common language
political and economic independence