Geography/Vocab
All other ancient civilizations, except Greece, settled on this kind of geographic feature
What is a River Valley?
These people have the right to vote in the United States today
What are citizens over the age of 18?
Athens had this type of government (two words)
What is a direct democracy?
The first major battle in the Persian-Athenian wars occurred in the shallow waters just off this flat plain. A messenger soldier died after a 26-mile run to inform Athens of the victory.
For 25 extra points, describe what happened next to the messenger.
What is Marathon?
This period of time has little to no written historical records, slowed trade, and no new inventions brought about by the Dorians
What are the Dark Ages?
These three geographic features isolated many early Greek communities making City-States necessary. Name two. For an extra 25 points, name the third.
What are mountains, islands, and coastlines?
This city-state valued military training and might over anything else
What is Sparta?
This form of government typically seizes power by force, manipulation, or military strength
What is a tyranny?
This person founded the Persian Empire by unifying the leaders into a powerful kingdom backed by the largest army in the ancient world
Who is Cyrus the Great?
This early Greek culture lived on Crete, worshipped bulls, and policed the seas for pirates
Who were the Minoans?
a type of landform that is surrounded on three sides by water
What is a peninsula?
This city-state valued education and democracy, and had boys attending school, while girls learned at home
What is Athens?
Sparta is credited with having one of the first of this type of government.
For 25 extra points, name the term for the captured people that grew food for Sparta.
What is an oligarchy?
What is a helot?
The Trojan War was famous for a beautiful woman being captured (and in love with her captor), and soldiers hiding in a giant ____________ to get inside a city and take it over. Name the woman for 150 and the creature for another 150 points.
Who is Helen?
What is the Trojan Horse?
Both Early Ancient Greeks after the Dark Ages, and later Greeks, called themselves _____
For an extra 25 points, name the word for "Greek" in the ancient world (4 syllables)
What are Helenes?
What is Hellenistic?
English meaning of 'polis', describing a small independent nation.
For 25 extra points, name the terms for 'graveyard' and 'living city' in Greek.
What is a Greek city-state?
Sparta's economy depended on this
What are iron bars?
This type of government ended in Greece because powerful aristocratic warriors realized they had more power than they realized, and gained support of the people
What is a monarchy?
Persian ships were made very differently than the Greek ones were. Explain why Greek ships won the Battle of the Stright of Salamis.
What is Greek ships resembled fish skeletons, were smaller, light-weight, easy to turn around, and able to ram holes into the Persian ships. (40 ships sunk 300 Persian ships)?
This is the name of the war between the Titans and the Olympians.
What is the Titanomachy?
A new "baby" territory that has ties to its "parent" with people and resources under the rule of the homeland
What is a colony?
A person had to be 5 things to be considered a citizen in most city-states. Name 4. extra 25 points for the 5th
What are land-owners?
18+
freeborn
males
locally born
This individual created democracy by introducing the idea of using black and white pebbles to make a choice while voting
For 25 extra points, name the ruler who brought 30 years of peace and rebuilt Athens after the victory over the Persians
Who is Cleisthenes?
Who is Pericles?
Greek fighters used this formation when they fought on land and it protected a group of soldiers standing shoulder to shoulder.
For 25 points more, what is the name of a citizen soldier?
What is a phalanx?
What is a hoplite?
Name the four Early Greek people.
Who are the Minoans, the Mycenaens, the Dorians, and the Helenes.