Geography & Interaction
These geographic features separated communities and created independent city-states.
What are mountains?
Trading goods for other goods without money.
What is barter?
The idea that laws apply to everyone, including leaders.
What is the rule of law?
The empire that Athens defeated, despite being heavily outnumbered, by using strategy and a powerful navy.
What is the Persian Empire?
A philosopher who asked lots of questions to make people think deeply.
Who was Socrates?
These geographic features surrounded Greece and encouraged trade and cultural exchange between regions.
What are seas?
What replaced the barter system and improved trade in Greece?
What is currency?
Only these people could vote and make decisions in government.
Who are citizens (men who owned property)?
A war between Athens and Sparta that weakened Greece.
What was the Peloponnesian War?
A philosopher who studied science and government, and taught Alexander the Great.
Who was Aristotle?
A body of land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
To help grow enough grain to feed everyone, Greek city-states began to set these up along the coasts of the Aegean and Mediterranean seas, in places like Italy, Sicily, France, Spain, North Africa, and Asia Minor.
What are colonies?
In this system, citizens themselves vote on laws instead of choosing leaders to do it. It was used in Athens.
What is direct democracy?
A leader who helped rebuild Athens and led its Golden Age.
Who was Pericles?
A Greek mathematician known for studying triangles and numbers.
Who was Pythagoras?
Small, independent city-state.
What is a polis
An open marketplace and meeting space in a polis.
What is the agora?
In this system, citizens choose officials to speak and make decisions for them. It is used in the United States today.
What is representative democracy?
A defensive group that was formed to protect Greece from the Persian Empire.
What is the Delian League?
A student of Socrates who wrote about an ideal government in The Republic.
Who was Plato?
As the need for trade grew, Greece adopted this - the very first to include vowels.
What is the (Phonecian) alphabet?
A narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas.
What is an isthmus?
A type of government where a small group of wealthy people holds power.
What is an oligarchy?
A ruler who spread Greek culture across a vast empire and whose legacy has lived on for many generations.
Who was Alexander the Great?
He was the "father of history" because he got multiple perspectives and looked for truthfulness in his sources.
Who was Herodotus?