Key Terms
City-state in Ancient Greece settled by the Dorians and built as a military state.
What is Sparta?
This city-state was known for its democracy and arts.
What is Athens?
The Greeks fought the Peloponnesian War against this empire.
Who are the Persians?
This Macedonian leader was taught by Aristotle and became a successful military leader.
Who was Alexander the Great?
This term refers to things related to Greece and spread far and wide during the reign of Alexander.
Hellenistic
System of government where citizens participate directly in day-to-day affairs of government rather than through representatives.
What is Direct democracy?
What are mountains and the sea?
This is the city where Athens won a great victory against the Persians and ran a long way to spread the good news!
Where is Marathon?
Alexander the Great's father.
Who was Philip II?
The cultural capital of the Hellenistic world.
What is Alexandria?
To absorb or adopt another culture
What is Assimilate?
This was common practice amongst Spartans if their babies were born too weak or sickly.
What is being abandoned to die?
This is the name of the alliance that Athens made with other Greeks against Persia
What is the Delian League?
This is how Philip II died.
What is assassination?
More women learned to do this during the Hellenistic period?
What is read and write?
Government in which ruling power is in the hands of a few people.
What is oligarchy?
This man brought many reforms to Athens
Who is Solon?
This was where a small group of Spartans held off a much larger Persian army.
Where is Thermopylae?
This is where Alexander's soldiers got to before they decided they would go no further and then turned around.
Where is India?
One of the Seven Wonders of the World which was destroyed in the 1300s.
What is the Pharos lighthouse
This man applied principles of physics to make practical inventions.
Who was Archimedes?
This term was used by Greeks for the people outside of Greece.
What are Barbarians
The son of Emperor Darius of Persia, who led an army against the Spartans at Thermopylae.
Who was Xerxes?
This many generals took over after Alexander the Great's death and divided up the Empire.
What is Three?
This person founded the philosophy of Stoicism
Who was Zeno?