Spartan leader that led the Greeks against the Persians
What is Leonidas
100
What type of climate does Greece have?
What is hot and dry
100
What type of people were the Mycenaeans?
What is war-like
100
A large fighting ship used by the Ancient Greeks and others beginning in the late 6thcentury
What is trireme
100
A small strip of land, with water on both sides that connects two larger areas of land
What is isthmus
200
leader of Athens, believed jurors should be paid and believed in
democracy
What is Pericles
200
What were their main crops?
What is grapes and olives
200
What is one difference between the Minoans and the Mycenaeans?
What is Minoans were peaceful, and the Mycenaens were war-like.
200
a cruel ruler, someone who usually took control of a government illegally and ruled alone
What is tyrant
200
a deadly sickness
What is plague
300
son of King Darius, led Persians against the Greeks
What is Xerxes
300
On what peninsula is Greece located?
What is Balkan
300
Name the three Greek columns.
What is Doric, Ionic, Corinthian
300
a slave owned by the state in ancient Sparta
What is helot
300
an agreement to cooperate
What is alliance
400
discovered the Minoan civilization
What is Arthur Evans
400
What type of soil is in Greece?
What is thin
400
What is one key idea that Pericles developed for the Athenian people.
What is He felt that every citizen had the right to vote – not just the wealthy. He arranged for jurors to be
paid so
they would not lose money being away from their jobs.
400
a walled fort built on a hill
What is acropolis
400
an open-air market and gathering place in Greek city-states
What is agora
500
son of King Phillip, dreamed of world conquest, created
largest empire of the time