City-States
This city-state is well- known for its love and focus on war. Boys would be trained from the age of 6 to fight.
What is Sparta.
This was one of the first times that most of the city-states united to fight against a powerful invading force.
What is the Persian War?
A blind poet who traveled Greece telling stories like the Iliad and the Odyssey.
The ancient Greek religion is _____.
What is polytheist?
This war was believed to be complete myth, until the 1800s when archeologists found some evidence of some facts that took place.
What is the Trojan War?
This is the city-state where Pericles started direct democracy and built the Parthenon.
What is Athens?
After the Persian War, Athens formed an alliance with other city-states called ____.
What is the Delian League?
This was a philosopher in Athens who started an academy and came up with his idea of a perfect/ ideal society.
Who is Plato?
Delphi was home to a priestess who was famed throughout the ancient world for being able to tell the future. She was called ____.
What is Pythia?
These were the first Greek-speaking people that first overtook the mainland of Greece before conquering Crete.
Who are the Mycenaeans?
This city-state was one of the most successful city-state in trade, making it the center of trade in Greece.
What is Corinth?
After the Persian War, Sparta formed an alliance with other city-states called ____.
What is the Peloponnesian League?
This is one of the first well-known philosophers in Athens who was actually sentenced to death because of his teachings.
Who was Socrates?
Delphi and Olympia were both _____, which are places that are not ruled by one city-state, but was a place for all Greeks to come
What is a pan-Hellenistic sanctuary?
Who are the Dorians?
This city-state was home to one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world known as the Statue of Zeus.
What is Olympia?
Explain how Sparta had the final victory in the Peloponnesian War?
They got financial support from Persia
This was a philosopher in Athens who started a school in Lyceam and taught that one must pursue a golden mean - balance between two extremes.
Who is Aristotle?
This was a battle fought towards the beginning of the Persian War where Athens had the naval victory.
What is the Battle of Marathon?
The Minoans left an important piece of architecture on Crete called ____.
What is the palace at Knossos?
Thebes and Athens fought over land often, Thebes united with Sparta during the Peloponnesian War, and Thebes united with Persia during the Persian War.
This was the battle in the Persian war where Sparta was led to defeat and afterwards the Persians burned the city of Athens.
What is the Battle of Thermopylae?
This was the term for people in Athens who questioned well accepted beliefs at the time to challenge people's ideas about morals, ethics and government, etc.
What are sophists?
These are games that were held every four years in honor of Apollo.
What are the Pythian Games?
The name for watercolor paintings done on wet plaster.
What are frescoes?