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Places
100
A body of land that is surrounded by water on three sides 
What is a peninsula?
100
A settlement in a new territory with strong ties to its homeland
What is colony?
100
A Greek city-state or a tiny independent country
What is a polis?
100
An open area market and a place to debate
What is an agora?
100
Someone who takes power by force and rules with total authority
What is a tyrant?
100
This is where the Gods and Goddesses were supposed to live.
Where is Mount Olympus?
200
Traditional stories about gods, goddesses and heroes
What is a myth?
200
Long poem that tells a story about heroic deeds
What is an epic?
200
 A type of drama that has a happy ending
What is a comedy?
200

This is the study of wisdom and answers to life's questions.

What is philosophy?

200

This is the battle strategy the Spartans perfected.

What is the phalanx?

200
This is the plain where the Persian army was defeated by the Greeks.
Where was Marathon?
300

This is the Persian monotheistic religion.

What is Zoroastrianism?

300
Enslaved neighbors - captive workers
What is a helot?
300
All citizens help run the government.
What is a democracy?
300
What a person leaves behind when he/she dies.
What is a legacy?
300

Greek thinkers who believed the human mind could understand everything.

What is a philosopher?

300
This Battle took place on a narrow strip of water.
Where is Salamis?
400
In government where only a FEW people have the power.
What is oligarchy?
400

This is the type of government modern America practices today?

What is representative democracy?

400
This scientist studies stars, planets and heavenly bodies.
What is an astronomer?
400

This was a free, Greek-born male who could vote.

What is a citizen?

400

These are story-tellers who passed down myths and epic poems.

What are bards?

400
The narrow pass through the mountains where Greeks fought the Persians.
Where is Thermopylae?
500
This type of government requires EVERY citizen to vote on all laws and policies.
What is Direct Democracy?
500

These letters represent sound.

What is the alphabet?

500

These two city-states were the strongest in Greece and were rivals.

What are Athens and Sparta?

500

This is what a province was in the Persian empire.

What are satrapies?

500

This was the most important route in the Persian empire - stretching for more than 1500 miles.

What is the Royal Road?

500
This was the battle where the Greeks CRUSHED the Persian army and made them retreat.
Where is Plataea?
600

someone who rules because they inherited it from their father

Who is a king?

600

This is the open air market place where people bought goods and debated ideas.

What is the agora?

600

This is the southern peninsula in Greece?

What is the Peloponnesus?

600

This is the island believed to have the first civilization of Greece.

What is Crete?

600

This was the most important Athenian leader during Greece's Golden Age.

Who is Pericles?

600

This is the continent Greece is located on.

What is Europe?