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100
An area of land nearly surrounded by water
What is a peninsula?
100
Blind poet who wrote stories (the Iliad and the Odyssey) about the Trojan War.
Who was Homer?
100
Believed to be home to the gods and goddesses.
What is Mount Olympus?
100
Ten year conflict fougth between the Greeks and the people of Troy.
What is the Trojan War?
100
Government controlled by a few wealthy people
What is an aristocracy?
200
These protected but also separated (isolated) the Greek city-states.
What are mountains?
200
First people to settle on the islands of the Aegean Sea.
Who were the Minoans?
200
Militaristic city- state in Ancient Greece
What was Sparta?
200
Sea battle in which the Athenians defeated the Persians in 480 B.C.E.
What is the Battle of Salamis?
300
The peninsula where Greece is located
What is the Balkan Peninsula
300
King of Macedonia who conquered the Persian Empire and Greece
Who was Alexander the Great?
300
City state in Ancient Greece that developed as a democracy?
What is Athens?
300
Athenian leader who united Athens and Sparta during Greece's Golden age.
What is Pericles?
400
Three seas that border Greece
What are the Mediterranean, Ionian, and aegean Seas?
400
Greek philosopher and student of Socrates.
Who was Plato?
400
Center of trade and learning founded by Alexander the Great.
What is Alexandria?
400
Battle of Marathon and Salamis were fought during this war.
What is the Persian War?
400
The league or alliance between Athens and other Greek city-states formed to combat Persia.
What is the Delian League/
500
The capital of Greece today. it is named after the goddess Athena.
What is Athens?
500
started a school that led to the development of the mathematical field of geometry.
Who was Pythagoras?
500
Outdoor marketplace in Ancient Greece
What is an agora?
500
War that destroyed the Athenian Empire.
What is the Peloponnesian War.
500
Traditional stories about gods and goddesses that often tried to explain nature.
What are myths?