Lesson 7.1
Another name for Greek city states
What is a polis?
Sparta used this to control their citizens
What is the military?
King Darius 1 reorganized the Persian government by creating these to help make the government more efficient
What are satrapies?
The reason democracy worked so well in Athens
What was the small number of citizens?
The Reason the Ancients Greeks set up colonies outside the Aegean Area
What is their populations was growing to fast?
OR
What was they couldn't produce enough food to feed all the populations?
The type of landform of the Greek mainland
What is a peninsula?
Activities that Spartan women were trained in
What are running, wrestling, and javelin throwing?
Cyrus the Great held his empire together by treating the conquered people this way
In 431 B.C. Sparta and other city-states joined forces to fight Athens in this war
What was the Peloponnesian War?
The way most Athenians thought about the changes Solon made
What is unhappy?
A group of armed foot soldiers in ancient Greece that usually arranged themselves in tight rows
What is a phalanx?
The Spartan name for an enslaved worker
What is a helot?
The 4 lands that King Cyrus conquered in 540 B.C.
What were Anatolia, Syria, Canaan, and Mesopotamia?
The Age of Pericles was known as the golden age of
What was prosperity, culture, and achievement?
The reasons why the Delian League fell apart
What is Athens became more powerful and thought they were better than the other city states?
OR
What is Athens started to control the other city-states?
The first civilization to arise in ancient Greece
What was the Minoan civilization?
The person who enforced laws and collected taxes in Sparta
What is an ephor?
The religious teacher that taught a monotheistic religion
Who was Zoroaster?
The Greek league that was created in 478 B.C. that served to defend and protect Greece
What was the Delian League?
The reasons why Persia decided to attack mainland Greece
What is Athens started meddling with Persia's conquered territory?
OR
What is Darius 1 wanted revenge against Greece?
The type of person who was considered a citizen in Greece
Who was a free, native-born man who owned land?
The system of government in which few people hold power
What is an oligarchy?
The Spartan King who led Spartan soldiers into battle at Thermopylae
Who was King Leonidas?
The woman who encouraged Athenian women to become more involved in government
Who was Aspasia?
The reasons Darius 1 created satrapies