These geographical features caused the Greeks to be very independent of each other.
What are mountains and seas?
100
These people were from the island of Crete.
Who were the Minoans?
100
Another word for Greek city-states.
What are polis'?
100
Fierce warriors with little education in the reading, writing, and math.
What were Spartans?
100
Persia is located here modern day.
What is southwestern Iran?
200
The mainland of Greece is called this. It is surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
200
These early Greeks were orginally from Asia, but invaded the Greek mainland.
Who were the Myceneaens?
200
This was where the temple would be located in a Greek city-state.
What was the acropolis?
200
Learned to spin, weave, and other household duties.
Who were Athenian women/girls?
200
Before this ruler came along, Persians were warriors and nomads.
Who was Cyrus the Great?
300
Greece's geography is made up of a peninsula and these.
What are islands?
300
These people's civilization ended in a mysterious way. It was either underwater earthquakes caused by a nearby volcanic eruption or an invasion from the mainland people.
Who were the Minoans?
300
This is where the men would go to debate, vote, and create laws.
What was the agora?
300
Left at the age of 7 to learn the art of war and returned at the age of 30.
Who were Spartan men/boys?
300
Cyrus the Great, not only united the Persians into a vast kingdom, but he was also known as being this to his new subjects.
What is kind, fair, and/or nice?
400
Greek farmers, which were not too many, grew wheat, barley, and these other two crops.
What are olives and grapes?
400
This Myceneaen king used trickery to win the Trojan War. Remember the wooden horse?
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Who was King Agamemnon?
400
In Athens men could start going to the agora at this age.
What was 18 years old?
400
Had an oligarchy government.
What was Sparta?
400
King Darius divided the large Persian Empire into these in order to better control their kingdom.
What were satrapies?
500
The three seas that surrounds Greece.
What are the Ionian, Aegean, and the Mediterranean Seas?
500
This civilization came to an end due to too much fighting with neighboring kingdoms and this natural disaster.
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Who are the Myceanaens?
500
Citizen soliders.
Who were hoplites?
500
Athens had a democratic government, thanks to this man.
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Who was Cleisthenes?
500
Cyrus the Great freed these people from their Babylonian Captivity and sent them back to this land.
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