Vocab 1
Persian Provinces
What are satrapies?
Focused on military service
Who were the Spartans?
Age at which the Spartan men entered the regular army
What is 20 years old?
The Greek alphabet was based on this alphabet
What is The Phoenician Alphabet?
This is the time when people forgot how to read and write
What is the Dark Age?
Thinkers who ponder questions about life
Who are philosophers?
These people could be citizens of Greek city-states
Who are free, native-born, land owning men
The age Spartan men could return to the homes
What is 30 years old?
People who take power by force and rule with total authority
Who are Tyrants?
Cancelled farmers debt's and freed slaves
Who was Solon?
Form of government used by the Spartans
What is an Oligarchy?
Enforced laws and collected taxes in Sparta
Who were the Ephors?
This is what the Mycenaeans learned from the Minoans
What is navigation of the sun and stars?
Became popular by giving land to landless farmers
Who is Peisistratus?
This stretched from the region of Asia Minor to the Persian capital of Susa
What is the Royal Road?
Open area used for a meeting place and a market
What is an agora?
Made Athens more democratic
Who was Pericles?
Three reasons Xerxes wanted to conquer Greece
What is to increase his country's wealth, to win glory, and REVENGE?
Country today that contains the land that was called Persia
What is Iran?
What King Darius divided his kingdom into
What are satrapies?
What is a polis?
Brought iron weapons to the Greeks
Who were the Dorians?
What Athenian soldiers promised to do in their oath
What is protect the constitution?
This was the job of the ten generals appointed by the Athenian Assembly
What is carry out the assembly's laws?
The 3 ways the Early Greeks lived (survived by doing)
What is fishing, trading, and herding sheeps and goats?