Early Greece
What two things influenced Greek development?
Mountains and water
Greek poet who wrote The Iliad about the Trojan War
Homer
Type of government in Athens that we have in the United States
Democracy
Age at which boys were taken away in Sparta for military training
7 years
Two things all Greeks had in common
Language and religion
Two common crops in ancient Greece
Olives and grapes
Epic Greek poem about Odysseus' return from the Trojan War
The Odyssey
Type of government in Sparta in which a small group held power
Oligarchy
Spartan government official responsible for day-to-day operation of the government
Ephor
Greek name for tenant farmers
Thetes
This body of water is south of Greece
Mediterranean Sea
Gift the Greeks used to trick the Trojans
Trojan horse
Greek name for a city-state
Polis
Free men who were not citizens
Metics
The earliest Greek culture
Minoan
Achilles
Who was a citizen in a Greek city-state?
Free male born in the city-state
Society organized for making war
Military state
The man
The Minoan civilization developed on this Greek island
Crete
Who won the Trojan War?
The Greeks
Rich landowners and kings who ruled in early Greece
Something Spartan girls received unlike other city-states
An education
City-state that gave women the most freedom
Sparta