Geography
The geography of Greece.
What is mountainous?
A form of government in which a few men rule.
What is an oligarchy?
To increase their resources this city-state traded and built colonies.
What is Athens?
A series of battles fought between Athens and Sparta.
What was the Peloponnesian War?
Homes were small and uncomfortable, while public spaces and buildings were large and beautiful.
Why was Athens called the city of contrast?.
Superior weapons and military strategy.
Why did the Greeks win the Battle of Marathon?
The philosopher who was forced to commit suicide by drinking hemlock (poison).
Who was Socrates?
By building Greek cities throughout his empire and populating them with Greek people.
How did Alexander the Great extended the legacy of Greek culture outside Greece?
A landmass that is surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
They are made by the king.
How were laws developed in a monarchy?
The Athenian marketplace, where men had political discussions.
What is the Agora?
431-404 BCE
When was the Peloponnesian War?
Actors were only men, they performed them in outdoor theaters and they wore masks.
What were three ways in which Greek theater was different from plays/movies of today?
The Greeks would have won this battle if a traitor hadn't shown the Persians a way to get through the mountains.
What is the Battle of Thermopylae?
The great leader of Athens during its Golden Age who built the Acropolis.
Who was Pericles?
The Greek philosopher who tutored Alex the Great and taught him to love all things Greek.
Who is Aristotle?
Not much contact between city-states, no centralized government, good trading due to sea travel.
How did geography affect Ancient Greek's development?
Only free men could vote and speak in the Assembly.
What describes democracy in Athens?
This Ancient Greek city-state was famous for its military way of life.
What was Sparta?
500 BCE
When did democracy develop?
They honored the gods and goddesses.
What was the purpose athletic events in Greece?
Athens came when this Greek city-state called for help against the Persians, but they left too soon and the city-state was crushed by the Persians.
What is Ionia? (What is the Ionian Revolt?)
The historian who wrote about the Peloponnesian War.
Who was Thucydides?
Terror and kindness.
What was Alexander the Great's strategy for building his empire?
Cities and the surrounding land that governed themselves as if they were their own country.
What were city-states?
A king inherits power, but a tyrant seizes it.
What best describes a difference between a king and a tyrant?
The name of the school Spartan boys moved to when they were 7 to learn to be soldiers.
What is the agoge?
499-479 BCE
When was the Greco-Persian War?
It was the temple that honors Athena.
What was the Parthenon?
Persian ambassadors asked for water and earth and were killed and thrown into a well.
What started the Battle of Marathon?
Wrote a collection of books about geometry that is still read today.
Who was Euclid?
He encouraged people to believe he was a god.
What is one way Alexander used religion to control his empire?
Not much land to farm, so went to other lands to establish these to provide for people of Greece.
What were colonies?
The power to make political decisions is in the hands of one person, usually a king or queen.
What is a monarchy?
Type of currency used by Sparta.
What is iron bars?
To question ones own beliefs.
What did Socrates encourage his fellow citizens to do?
Socrates was convicted of not honoring the Gods and sentenced to death.
Why did Socrates die?
The Greeks lured Persian ships into a narrow channel and attacked them, sinking hundreds of Persian ships and winning this battle.
What is the Battle of Salamis?
Conquered the Greeks with the Macedonian army.
Who was Phillip II?
Wearing Persian style clothing and using Persian greetings.
What Persian customs did Alexander adopt after conquering Persia?