The Extra-Ancient Greeks
States, but just a city
Fighting Each Other
The Greek Soccer Team
He was pretty great
100

Mycenae was located on this famous Peninsula. 

What is the Peloponnesus?

100

The city state responsible for creating democracy.

What is Athens?
100

This city state was known for its strong Navy.

What is Athens?

100

This god was known as the king of Mt. Olympus.

Who is Zeus?

100

Alexander's father who conquered Greece from the north.

Who is Philip II?

200

The author of the Illiad and the Odyssey.

Who was Homer?

200

Sparta's oligarchy had a council of 28.

What is the Gerousia?

200

The first Persian war began with this battle, which we now name a modern running event after.

What is the Battle of Marathon?
200

His brothers gave him domain over the underworld, so he did not live on Mt. Olympus.

Who is Hades?

200

The Kingdom north of Greece where Alexander comes from.

What is Macedon?

300

Mycenaeans used this metal to build armor and weapons.

What is Bronze?

300

The Oracle lived at this sacred site of Apollo.

What is Delphi?

300

After his father, Darius I, failed to defeat the Greeks, he planned a new invasion of the city states.

Who is Xerxes I?

300

This goddess was the patron god of Athens.

Who is Athena?

300

Alexander left this province, or kingdom, to Ptolemy, whose descendant was Cleopatra.

What is Egypt?

400

This regional power ruled Mesopotamia in the east while the Mycenaeans ruled Greece.

What is Babylon?

400

The city state that held the Olympics.

What is Olympia?

400

This clever Athenian general evacuated Athens and defeated the Persian navy in the battle of Salamis.

Who is Themistocles?

400

You might find this god at a party or a wine festival.

Who is Dionysus?

400

Before Alexander's conquest of Greece, the Spartans had an alliance named after their home peninsula.

What is the Peloponnesian League?

500

He came up with the idea of the Trojan Horse; The main character of Homer's second poem.

Who is Odysseus?

500

Also called the Achaemenid Empire.

What is the Persian Empire?

500

The Spartan Shield wall.

What is a Phalanx?

500
Ares helping the Spartans in battle is an example of this.

What is Divine intervention?

500

As Alexander conquered Greece and Persia, this city state was growing in power in Italy.

What is Rome?