Chapter 7 - Section 1
This island lies southeast of the Greek mainland.
What is Crete?
In fear of the helots might someday rebel, Sparta trained these type of people to be in their military army.
What did Athenian men do?
These people lived in what today is southwestern Iran.
Where did the Persian people live?
For Athenian women, their life had resolved around these things.
What is home and family?
This vocabulary word means a settlement in a new territory that stays closely linked to its homeland.
What is a colony?
These people replaced the Minoans as the major power on the Mediterranean in about 1400 B.C.
Who were the Myceneans?
In Sparta, these type of people were trained in sports such as running, wrestling, throwing the javelin, and could own property and travel to wherever they wanted.
What did women do?
This was the Persian religion, founded by Zoroaster.
What was Zoroastrianism?
This league was formed when Athens joined together with other Greek city-states(excluding Sparta). It promised to defend its members against the Persians, and eventually freed almost all city-states under Persian's control.
What was the Delian League?
This vocabulary word means 20 provinces divided in an empire.
What are satrapies?
During this age in 1200 B.C., the Mycenaeans were in trouble as earthquakes and fighting among their kingdoms destroyed their hilltop forts, and soon resulted in the Mycenaean civilization collapsing.
What was the Dark Age?
Because Sparta mainly focused on military training, they fell behind in this.
Why did Sparta fall behind on trade?
In 490 B.C. a Persian fleet landed 20,000 soldiers on this plain, and waited for the Athenians to advance there.
What happened on the plain of Marathon?
In 433 B.C., Athenian activities were interfering directly with some of allies of this city-state. Because of this, the allies began too push the city-state to attack Athens, and a war broke out between them.
What is Sparta?
This vocabulary word means a person that takes power by force and rules total authority.
What is a tyrant?
In 1450 B.C., according to historians, this civilization was collapsed by undersea earthquakes that caused giant waves that washed away the cities, and due to the invaders, the Mycenaeans.
How did the Minoan civilization collapse?
At school, Athenian boys learned these subjects from different teachers.
How did Athenian boys learn how to write, read, do architect, sports, and play the lyre?
These things helped weaken the Persian empire and eventually made it fall.
How did the Greeks, rebellions, plots, and Alexander the Great help with the fall of the Persian Empire?
This woman wasn't native Athenian. She was well educated and taught public speaking to many Athenians. Her writings have not survived, but Plato, the famous Greek philosopher, said her work helped shape his ideas. Pericles often consulted this woman, as did many other Athenian leaders. In this way, she became influential in politics even though she was not allowed to vote or hold office.
Who was Aspasia?
This vocabulary word means people who were captured and enslaved by Sparta.
What are helots?
In 700 B.C. the city states depended on these armies of ordinary citizens.
What are hoplites?
This leader is credited for making Athens into a democracy.
Who was Cleisthenes?
The battle of Plataea made the Persians retreat to this place.
What was the Asia Minor?
The result of this war weakened all major Greek city-states, as many people had died in fighting, many farms were destroyed, and many people also were left without jobs. This was an extremely difficult time for the Greeks.
What was the result of the Peloponnesian War?
This vocabulary word means people gather at mass meetings to decide on government matters.
What is the direct democracy?