World
political system where citizens vote directly on laws and policies, rather than electing representatives to make decisions on their behalf
direct democracy
This age was when men were hunter gathers
This age is when men moved from that into agriculture
Paleolithic
neolithic
City - States developed instead of one Greek country due to this geographic condition
What was mountains and islands
The war between Athens and Sparta was called
Peloponnesian Wars
A type of government where a few wealthy people have control without the peoples interests
What is an Oligarchy
He was the creator of the first empire in Sumeria
Sargon of Akkad
How did Socrates die?
Drinking poison/hemlock
This mythological hero was written to be Greece's greatest warrior
Achilles
During the ______ Age of Greece, age, drama, sculpture, poetry, philosophy, architecture and science reached all new heights
golden
The Parthenon was constructed under this persons leaderships
Pericles
4 forms of writing in ancient river valley civilizations
Mesopotamia
Egypt
Indus
China
Cuneiform
Hieroglyphics
Cannot decipher
Pictographs
process in which a new idea or product spreads from one place to another
cultural diffusion
Greece included over 2000 islands in this sea
Aegean
After the defeat of the Persians Athens helped to organize this group
delian league
Plato wrote this, in which he describes what he believes to be the ideal society
the Republic
Greek word for city state
Greek word for marketplace
Greek word for fortified hilltop
polis
agora
acropolis
Sparta defeated the Messenians and then made them into slaves called
helots
After Alexander died This era was defined by the spread of Greek culture throughout the eastern Mediterranean, Egypt, and parts of Asia, which blended with local cultures
Hellenistic
A naval battle fought in 480 BCE between Greece and Persia
Salamis
This was the first Greek civilization
This was the second
Mycenaean
Minoan
Alexander the Great was from this northern Greek city state
What is Macedonia?
In the Battle of _________, a small force of Greek soldiers, led by King Leonidas of Sparta, defended a narrow mountain pass against a massive Persian army led by King Xerxes I.
Thermopylae
The Parthenon was built to honor who
Athena
In ancient Greece, the _______ was a formidable, tightly packed rectangular formation of heavy infantry, known as hoplites, armed with long spears and large shields.
phalanx