Sparta and Athens
This city-state was a military oligarchy.
What is Sparta?
He became ruler of Macedon at the age of 20.
Who is Alexander the Great?
In this battle, the small Greek army attacked the Persians at a dead run. The Greeks positioned at the sides of the line of battle surrounded the Persians and crushed their line.
What is the Battle of Marathon?
Built during the time of Pericles, this temple to the goddess Athena is considered by some the most beautiful structure ever built.
What is the Parthenon?
Greece juts out into this large body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
A government where every citizen has the right to vote for or against laws.
What is a direct democracy?
A legendary writer of fables.
Who is Aesop?
From these people we have gotten the term "laconic speech."
Who are the Spartans?
King of Persia, he reconquered the Ionian cities after they burned the city of Sardis to the ground.
Who is King Darius?
When King Xerxes marched against the city of Athens, he found this.
The men, women and children had fled the city.
He is the first great medical doctor in human history.
Who is Hippocrates?
Because the land is mountainous and difficult to farm, the Greeks from earliest times have tried to make their living from this.
What is the sea? (merchants, fishermen, pirates)
Rule by a few of the citizens.
What is an oligarchy?
He wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
In this city-state, ordinary citizens served the government as judges, or magistrates.
What is Athens?
A ruler who sets himself up by force and not the will of the people
What is a tyrant?
King Leonidas led his force of 300 Spartans to stand against a much larger Persian army in this battle, gaining valuable time for the Greek army to organize.
What is the Battle of Thermopylae?
The work of Euclid and Ptolemy were of great benefit to this field of study.
What is mathematics?
The peninsula where Greece is located.
What is the Balkan Peninsula?
Government by a king, queen, emperor, etc.
What is a monarchy?
He is a famous Athenian sculptor who was in charge of building the Parthenon.
Who is Phidias?
This city-state had to be constantly on guard because they made slaves of the people they conquered.
What is Sparta?
He composed the first written laws for Athens.
Who is Draco?
He led the Greek fleet in attacking the much larger Persian fleet off the island of Salamis, winning a great sea victory. This victory was predicted by an oracle at Delphi.
Who is Themistocles?
Instead of just speaking what he knew about a subject, Socrates used this method to teach.
What is asking questions?
Area on the west coast of Asia Minor where the Greeks established early settlements?
What is Ionia?
One who belongs to a state and who has the rights, privileges, and duties of a freeman.
What is a citizen?
Historian who told the story of the Peloponnesus War.
Who is Thucydides?
These people had a tremendous love for their democracy and fought very hard to defend their city and its families.
What is Athens?
He found a way to bring peace between the rich and the poor in Athens.
Who is Solon the Lawgiver?
The Greeks laid siege to the city of Troy in the poem written by this famous poet.
Who is Homer?
He is considered the father of modern science.
Who is Aristotle?
The area of land that is separated from the rest of Greece by the Isthmus of Corinth.
What is the Peloponnesus?
Its establishment by Cleisthenes weakened the power of the nobles, made the government more stable.
What is the Council of 500?
He was called "the Just" by his people.
Who is Aristides?