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Vocabulary
Athens and Sparta
Wars
Government
Legacy of Greece
100
A large hill where city residents could seek shelter and safety in times of war
What is Acropolis?
100

The only people who could be educated in Athens?

What are boys?

100

The rival empire that Alexander the Great conquered?

What is Persia?

100
Two groups of people that did *not* have the right to vote
What are women and slaves?
100
A large athletic competition, involving many sports, born in Ancient Greece, in which many city-states participated. It developed into the biggest international athletic competition in the world today.
What are the Olympics?
200

a body of land that is surrounded on three sides by water

What is a "peninsula"?

200
The type of education that men and women received in Sparta.

What is military training?

200

The war that caused Athens and Sparta to joined together to stop a common enemy from conquering Greece.

What is the Greco-Persian war?

200

a government in which the ruling power is in the hands of one person

What is a monarchy?

200
The Greek author who wrote the 'Odyssey' and the 'Iliad.'

Who was Homer?

300

a person who has certain rights and duties in a city-state or nation

What is a citizen?

300

The type of economy Athens was based on?

What is trade?

300

How Alexander the Great spread Hellenistic (Greek) culture?

He conquered large territories in which he placed officials to run the local government where he built new Greek-style cities.

300
Greece (Athens, in particular) is the birthplace of this form of government, that the United States uses today.
What is Democracy?
400
A clearing that served both as a marketplace and as a meeting place
What is "Agora"?
400

The type of economy Sparta was based on?

What is farming and conquering?

400
The war that allowed the Macedonians to take over Greece.

What is the Peloponnesian War?

400
A form of government in which the ruling power is in the hands of one person who is *not* the lawful king or queen, where that power is usually taken by force.
What is Tyranny?
400

A part of Greek architecture that can still be seen today, in buildings like the Lincoln Memorial.

What are columns?

500

 a member of the most powerful class in ancient Greek society

What is an aristocrat?

500

The type of government Sparta had?

What is oligarchy?

500

This period of time came in between the Greco-Persian war and the Peloponnesian war.

What is the Golden Age of Greece?

500

A system of government where a small group of the richest and most powerful citizens controlled decision making.

What is Oligarchy?

500

The Greek mathematician who created a famous theorem we still use today to find the lengths of a triangle's sides.

Who was Pythagoras?