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Citizens share in running this type of government
What is democracy?
100
Acted as tax collector, judge, chief of police and army recruiter in Persia under Darius
What is a satrap?
100
Where Knossos was located.
What is the island of Crete?
100
The age at which Spartan men entered the regular army
What is 20?
100
DFTBA stands for
What is Don't Forget to Be Awesome?
200
Mass meetings to make decisions was in this type of government
What is a direct democracy?
200
Tax collector and police in Sparta
What is an ephor?
200
Where the Minoans lived
What is the island of Crete?
200
The ancient religion of Persia. Still practiced in Iran, India, and has many followers in the US. (First four letters of spelling must be correct).
What is Zoroastrianism?
200
Sparta and Athens battled for control of Greece in this war
What is the Peloponnesian War?
300
A few wealthy people hold power in this type of government.
an oligarchy
300
The type of government we have in the United States (two words)
What is a representative democracy?
300
Odysseus was from this city-state.
What is Ithaca?
300
Artisans tanned leather, sewed clothes, and made jars for wine and olive oil in this pre-Greek civilization
What is Mycenae?
300
He gave a famous Funeral Oration and said "everyone is equal before the law". The Golden Age of Athens was under his rule.
Who is Pericles?
400
Like a tiny independent country
What is a polis, or city-state?
400
The Golden Age of Athens was under this ruler
Who is Pericles?
400
The hero of the Iliad who killed Hector, the prince of Troy.
Who was Achilles?
400
The Rogue Valley Mall of ancient Greece
What is the agora?
400
The battle that began the real decline of the Persian Empire and forced the Persians back to Asia Minor
What is the Battle of Plataea
500
An ordinary citizen acting as a soldier.
What is a hoplite
500
Spartan captive workers
What is a helot?
500
Most of ancient Persia is now in this modern day country that begins with the letter 'I'.
What is Iran?
500
Athenian women could not leave home without...
What is a male relative?
500
On his last breath after running 25 miles, Phiedipidies, the runner from Marathon to Athens, gasped, "Nike!" which means _________ in Greek.
What is victory?
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