Government
The religious festival that prevented the Spartans from fighting at Marathon
What is the Carneia?
The main infantry in Athens and Sparta.
What was a Hoplite?
The elite group of 10 000 soldiers
Who were the immortals?
Modern day Iran
Where is Ancient Persia?
A system of government where all citizens share control
What is a democracy?
Soldier with a large wicker shield?
What is a Sparabara?
Reigning dynasty in Persia in the 5th Century
What was the Achaemenid Empire?
Another name for Ancient Greece
What is Hellas?
A type of government where a few wealthy people have control
What is an Oligarchy?
Spartan sons lived and studied here from the age of 7
What was the Agoge?
The time when young Spartans would cull the Helot population (also the name of the secret police that would do this).
What is the Krypteia?
Darius
Who led the first Persian invasion?
Ancient Citadel located on the rocky outcrop in Athens
What is the Acropolis?
The Supreme Court of Athens
What is the Boule?
A naval ship with three rows of oars
What is a Trireme?
Athenian Polemarch during the Battle of Marathon
Who was Callimachus
Provinces that the empire was divided into for governing
What is a Satrapy?
The council of 500 in Athens
What is the Boule?
"Come and take them"
What did Leonidas famously say when the Persians demanded they put down their arms?
Humata, Huxta and Havarshta
What are the three pillars of Zoroastrianism?
The mountainous peninsula in Southern Greece, connected to the mainland by the Isthmus of Corinth.
What is the Peleponnese?