Vocabulary
a piece of land nearly surrounded by water
What is a peninsula?
Greek myths describe an early civilization that developed where?
What is Crete?
In Greek city-states, one of three forms of government typically developed : a tyranny, an oligarchy,or __________.
What is democracy?
In the 500s B.C., Persia built an empire about the size of this country.
What is the United States of America?
In the 400s B.C., the rule of Pericles in Athens was called this.
What is the Golden Age?
a gathering place; marketplace in ancient Greece
What is an agora?
The Minoans were an island civilization. Who were a mainland civilization.
Who were the Mycenaeans?
The age a boy in Sparta started training in military skills.
What is seven.
In the battle of Salamis the Greeks defeated this navy because they had smaller, faster ships.
What is the Persian navy?
A defensive league, or protective group, formed by city-states to defend its members against the Persians.
What is the Delian League?
a government by the people
What is a democracy?
In most city-states, who could be citizens?
Who were only land-owning males?
Sparta was ruled by an oligarchy with a council of elders that consisted of __________.
Who are land-owning males?
Greek city-states united to prevent this empire from conquering Greece.
What is Persia?
They formed an alliance with Persia in order to fight the Athenian Navy.
Who is Sparta?
a government in which a small group has control
What is an oligarchy?
Greek civilization began on a mountainous peninsula surrounded by _______ with many islands.
What are seas?
Young male students studied arithmetic, geometry, and public speaking in this city-state.
What is Athens
In the 400s B.C., Persia tried to expand into Europe and took control of some Greek colonies in this area.
What is the Mediterranean?
A plague in Athens killed many people including this leader.
Who is Pericles?
an absolute ruler unrestrained by law
What is a tyrant?
Wars and _____ helped cause the fall of the Mycenaean civilization around 1100 B.C., followed by a “dark age.”
What are earthquakes?
After the death of Peisistratus, this noble became the next leader of Athens.
Who was Cleisthenes?
Persia invaded Greece, but the Athenians defeated a much larger Persian Army at this battle in 490 B.C.
What is the Battle of Marathon?
They had no political rights and there were many enslaved people in Athens who helped build its prosperous economy.
Who are women?