Early Civilizations
The Greek City States
Athens/Sparta
Wars in Greece
Greek Culture
100
The Minoan Civilization.
What is discovered by Sir Arthur Evans in 1900- island civilization that contained Knossos.
100
The geography of Greece contains these natural features.
What is rocks and mountains.
100
This occurs when a citizen directly votes for a candidate or on an issue.
What is direct democracy?
100
King Darius tried of Persia tried to enter this country. War ensued.
What is Greece?
100
What are the two types of Greek plays
What is tragedies and comedies?
200
Warlike people that moved southward from the north into the peninsula of Greece.
What is the Mycenaeans?
200
The Greeks tried these three types of government before creating democracy.
What is King-rule, aristocrats and tyrants?
200
Direct democracy became too hard to manage so they developed a this smaller group of representatives (about 500) to speak for the people.
What is an assembly?
200
This group won the Battle of Marathon.
What are the Athenians?
200
Athens wanted to rid of Socrates because of this.
What is he questioned government, religion and the self?
300
Large volumes of work (poems) that explain the Trojan Wars in detail.
What is the Illiad and The Odyssey?
300
This leader helped create democracy.
Who is Solon?
300
These people could become citizens in Athens.
What is men who were not slaves.
300
This is the son of Darius who sent 150,000 soldiers and 600 ships against the Greeks. He was held back because of the actions of 300 men.
Who is Xerxes?
300
Plato discusses in this book, that in a perfect society only philosophers would rule because they use their head (logic) instead of their hearts.
What is The Republic?
400
The wife of Paris was taken to Troy. The Mycenaeans fought to take her back.
What is the cause of the Trojan War?
400
This is an independent city-state.
What is polis?
400
These years were milestones in Spartan men lives. (Include age and what happened)
What is newborn (examined on a hill and left to die if there was anything wrong with the baby), 7-taken from parents by government, 20- became a citizen, 30- married, 60- allowed to leave military?
400
The Athenians defeated the Persians at Salamis because of this.
What is the Persian boats could not maneuver well in the water because they were too large, so the smaller Greek ships destroyed them by poking holes in their hulls with battering rams?
400
Aristotle was famous for writing in-depth works on these six disciplines.
What is astronomy, biology, ethics, physics, logic and politics.
500
This was given to the Trojans by the Mycenaeans. It is thought to be the reason the ten year war was finally won.
What is the Trojan horse?
500
These are powerful families with large amounts of land.
What is aristocrats?
500
Spartan women said this to their husbands as he went off to war.
What is come home as a victor carrying your shield, or come home dead, being carried on your shield?
500
THese groups fought in the Peloponnesian War. It lasted for this many years and had the long term effect of this.
What is Athens and Sparta? What is 27 years? What is weakened the whole country and allowed King Phillip of Macedon to invade and take over in 338 B.C.
500
In a tragedy, ______ defeats the ________. In a comedy__________ __________ were made fun of.
What is gods defeat heroes? and What is important people?
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