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City States and Goverments
Philosophy
Athens and Sparta
Wars
Greek of All Trades
100
An independent town or city that governs itself and the land around it
What is a city-state?
100
Meaning of Philosophy
What is the "love of wisdom"?
100
The type of citizen that Athenians valued or taught their children to become.
What is well-rounded?
100
Description of the strategy used by the Greeks to defeat the Persians in the Battle of Marathon.
What is the Greeks drawing in the Persians centrally and surrounding the Persians on the sides or the flanks?
100
One of the most famous buildings of Ancient Greece that was built under Pericles in Athens during the Golden Age
What is the Parthenon?
200
A government in which a few wealthy men have the power and make the laws
What is an Oligarchy?
200
This philosopher believed that wisdom is knowing that you do not know.
Who is Socrates?
200
The type of citizen that the Spartans valued or trained their children to become.
What is warriors?
200
Description of what happened in the Battle of Thermopylae
What is the Greeks attempted to push the Persians through a narrow pass, but a traitor gave away their plan, so King Leonidas and his 300 Spartans stayed behind to fight the Persians on their own and slow down the Persian attack so the rest of Greece could prepare to face the Persians?
200
The leader of Athens during the Golden Age who oversaw the building of the Parthenon.
Who is Pericles?
300
Government in which power is shared by a large number of citizens and majority rules decides the laws
What is democracy?
300
This philosopher believed that wisdom is is unchanging and universal truth found by reason or logic.
Who is Plato?
300
This city-state is known as the birthplace of Democracy.
What is Athens?
300
Description of what happened in the Battle of Salamis
What is the Persians tried to conquer the rest of Greece with their navy, but the Greeks lured the Persians into shallow waters and sank the Persian ships and attacked with men from their own Greek ships?
300
The reasons why Alexander was called "Alexander the Great"
What is he conquered and collected more land and wealth than anyone before him and ruled more people than any king before him?
400
Government in which a few "noble or upper-class families have power and make the laws
What is an aristocracy?
400
This philosopher believed that wisdom is knowledge based on experience.
Who is Aristotle?
400
Greek city state known for being laconic
What is Sparta?
400
The main city-states and the names of their allies who fought in the Peloponnesian Wars
What is Athens and the Delian League and Sparta and the Pelopponesian League?
400
The reasons why Alexander the Great's conquest of much of the world was so significant
What is the spread of Greek or Hellenistic culture to many civilizations which changed them forever?
500
Government in which one man is the dictator or has all the power and makes all the laws
What is Tyranny?
500
This method of philosophy involves asking questions to discover something.
What is the Socratic Method?
500
Greek city-state known for valuing rhetoric
What is Athens?
500
The cause of the Peloponnesian War breaking out?
What is the decline of diplomatic or political relations between Athens and Sparta?
500
pass laws, levy or collect taxes, vote on issues of war or peace, ostracize or banish citizens
What are the jobs of the Athenian Assembly?