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Vocabulary
City-States
Famous People
Government
Greek Wars
100

Also known as city-state

What is a polis?

100

The city-state whose focus is on making warriors

Sparta

100
Philosopher who believed that questioning was the way to truth and knowledge

Who is Socrates?

100

Athen's government

What is a direct democracy?

100

A powerful empire that attempted to invade and conquer Greece

Who are the Persians?

200

Open public marketplace in Ancient Greece


What is the Agora?

200

The city-state where women had zero rights and were taught to be good wives and mothers

Athens

200

King who unified the Greek city-states

Who is King Phillip II?

200

The people who have the power in a direct democracy

What are citizens?

200
The land battle where the Athenians defeated the Persians and then sent a messenger back to Athens to deliver the news,

Battle of Marathon

300

The peninsula where Sparta is located

What is the Peloponnesian peninsula?

300

Athens and Sparta had these two things in common

What is slavery, an assembly, religion, language?

300

Leader in Athens who created an empire and worked to restore Athens

Who is Pericles?

300

Sparta's government

What is an oligarchy?

300

At what battle did the Greeks, led by Sparta, attempt to hold off the Persians, but lost to the Persians due to a Greek traitor?

Battle of Thermopylae/ Battle of 300

400

The hilltop fortress holds many buildings and serves as a place to hide from invaders

What is an acropolis?

400

The lack of natural resources and an increase in population led Athens to found these

What are colonies?

400

King who conquered the Persian Empire and influenced the spread of Greek culture (Hellinism)

Who is Alexander the Great?

400

Oligarchy

What is a government with a small group of wealthy people, 2 kings and a council of elders or an assembly, making decisions for the citizens?

400
What battle pitted the Athenian Navy against the Persian Navy. Athens won.

Battle of Salamis

500

Citizen soldiers

What are hoplites?

500

Responsibilities and duties of citizens

What is hold office, vote, own land, and debate?

500

Philosopher that believed in the Golden Mean, influenced the US Constitution and believed the best government is a combination of a monarchy, oligarchy, and democracy.

Who is Aristotle?

500
The government idea that states the law applies to all 

What is the rule of law?

500

This event lead to the decline of the Greek city-states

The Peloponnesian War?

600

Slaves in Sparta

What are helots?

Extra points:

1. What did Sparta do to control the population of the helots? (100 points)

2. Why did they have to control the population? (100 points)

600

Athens league of alliance with some of the Greek city-states

What is the Delian league?

600

Created a code of laws for Athens

Who is Draco?

600
The reason a direct democracy could not work in the United States

What is the population is too big?

600

Consequences of the Persian Wars

What is enter an era of new Golden Age with rapid developments in culture and technology>