Geography
The geographical term for the mainland of Greece
What is peninsula?
Taking power by force
What is a tyrant?
Name for people who gathered to debate issues and were proud of their freedom
What are Athenian men?
City state to kick off the Greco-Persian Wars
What is Ionia?
Tales telling of great adventure and powers of gods
What are myths?
Greece's main elevation/geographic feature
What is mountains or mountainous?
To "rule by the people"
What is democracy?
Could own property and had rights and freedoms
What are Spartan women?
Battle in which better weapons and military strategy helped Athens defeat Persia
What is the Battle of Marathon?
The leader who ushered in the Golden Age
What/Who is Pericles?
None of these flow through Greece
What are major rivers?
The government in which the rich became richer and the poor became poorer
What is oligarchy?
Trained and prepared boys and girls for battle
What is Sparta?
What is bringing different cultures together under one government?
Athena inspired this building
Started in order to get resources and supplies
What are colonies?
What is monarchy?
The city state who gave women the main duty of housework and raising children
What is Athens?
The popular name of many of Alexander's conquered cities
What is Alexandria?
An astronomical finding
What is the earth moves around the sun?
Used to guide Greek trading ships
What are the stars?
Similarity of democracy in Ancient Greece and in the U.S.
Economy that relied on trade with other city states and foreign lands
What is the Athenian economy/Athens?
Alexander built cities in order to spread this culture
What is Greek?
Ancient and modern day Olympians do this
What is light the torch/flame?