Government
A type of government where one person illegally seized control and becomes the ruler
What is a tyranny?
The chief god of the Greeks
Who is Zeus?
The winner of the Peloponnesian War
Who is Sparta?
This Greek philospher was sentenced to death for his teachings
Who was Socrates?
The ancient Greek word for city-state
What is polis?
A type of government controlled by a small group of people made up of aristocratic and non-aristocratic families
What is an oligarchy?
The man was said to the be the author of the Greek epic poems the Illiad and Odyssey
Who is Homer?
Alexander the Great conquered this major empire to the east of Greece and Macedonia
What is the Persian Empire?
Pursuing truth was the most important thing for this Greek philosopher.
Who is Aristotle?
Although Greek city states were very different, they all had two things in common
What is language (Greek)
What is religion (Olympian gods)
This group voted to determine government policy in Athens
What is the assembly?
This prominent Greek temple on the Athenian Acropolis was built to honor Athena
What is the Parthenon?
What most boys/young men would be doing in Sparta
What is training for war/going to military school?
This Greek philosopher's goal was to find the perfect forms of life in the ideal state
Who is Plato?
Sophocles, Euripides, Aeschylus
Who are 3 major Athenian dramatists?
According to the Athenian constitution, only these people could be citizens of Athens (at least 2)
Who are 1) free 2) male 3) adults 4) with two Athenian parents?
How the Olympic Games began
What is as a religious festival to honor Zeus?
The purpose of the Delian league (at least 2)
What is to free the Greek city-states of Asia Minor and defend against future Persian Invasion?
A question-and-answer system of learning.
What is the Socratic method?
Ways in which the lives of Spartan women differed from Athenian women (at least 2)
1) What is ability to own property?
2) What is freedom to travel/leave home?
3) What is ability to conduct business?
Some ways that Athenian citizens participated in Athens democracy (at least 3)
1) What is voted in the assembly
2) What is served on the council (boule)
3) What is served as jurors
4) What is voting for Ostracism
5) What is held office
The Olympian Gods (at least 3)
(not Hades!)
Pericles' Strategy (at least 3)
1) stay inside the walls
2) use the navy to raid Spartan territory
3) use the navy to protect trade & supplies
Ancient Greek philosophers used these two things to understand the world
What is Reason and Observation?
Elements of Greek culture brought by Alexander to the lands he conquered sparking the Hellenistic period (at least 3)
1) What are Coins
2) What are Buildings (temples/theatres/gymnasia)
3) What is Poetry/literature/drama
4) What is Art (sculptures/statues/architecture)