Ancient Greek Geography
This sea surrounded ancient Greece and was important for trade
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This type of government means "rule by the people"
What is democracy?
$100: Non-citizen residents of Athens who could be merchants or craftsmen
What are metics?
This philosopher used questions to teach and was sentenced to death
Who is Socrates?
These two city-states were the main rivals in the Peloponnesian War
What are Athens and Sparta?
This type of climate in Greece made it difficult to grow grain but good for olives
What is a Mediterranean climate?
The council of 500 people in Athens who helped decide which issues came before the assembly
What is the boule?
The location where young Spartan boys lived and trained from age 7
What are barracks?
Type of poem meant to be sung with a stringed instrument called a lyre
What is lyric poetry?
This empire tried to conquer Greece but was defeated at Marathon and Salamis
What is Persia?
Only this fraction of Greek land could be used for farming due to mountains
What is one quarter (or less)
This Athenian leader gave a famous funeral oration and led during the Golden Age
Who is Pericles?
This sacred festival honoring Zeus featured athletic competitions every 4 years
What are the Olympic Games?
The promise doctors still take today based on the teachings of Hippocrates
What is the Hippocratic Oath?
The naval battle where Athens was finally defeated by Sparta in 404 BCE
What is Aegospotami?
This narrow valley pass was where 300 Spartans made their famous last stand
What is Thermopylae?
Sparta was ruled by this many kings at the same time
What is two?
The class of people in Athens who did most household work and labor
Who are slaves?
The famous temple built to honor Athena on the Acropolis in Athens
What is the Parthenon?
Alexander the Great's famous warhorse
Who is Bucephalus?
A large peninsula in southern Greece containing Sparta
What is the Peloponnesian Peninsula?
This Macedonian king conquered Greece and was Alexander the Great's father
Who is Philip?
Women in this Greek city-state had more rights and freedom than in other places
What is Sparta?
This mathematician developed a famous theorem about right triangles
Who is Pythagoras?
The length of the Peloponnesian War
What is 27 years?