Government
Sparta and Athens
Wars
People
Vocabulary
100

This type of government has a king.

What is a monarchy?

100

At this age, Spartan boys entered military school.

What is seven?

100

Sparta and Athens fought against this empire in 480 BC.

What is Persia?

100

This leader stole money from the Delian League in order to rebuild and make Athens beautiful again. 

Who is Pericles?

100

This was another name for a city state.

What is a polis?

200

This type of government gives citizens some kind of say in their government.

What is a democracy?

200

This city state was known for being a military state.

What is Sparta?

200

This war was fought between Athens and Sparta.

What is the Peloponnesian War?

200

This ruler conquered and united Greece after the Peloponnesian War in 348 BC.

Who is Phillip II?

200

This is the type of story that Aesop told that always taught a lesson.

What is a fable?

300

In this type of democracy, citizens vote directly on issues.

What is a direct democracy?

300

This city state was known for democracy, art, and architecture.

What is Athens?

300

Sparta formed an alliance with this former enemy to win the war against Athens in 404 BC.

What is Persia?

300

This ruler from Macedonia was taught by Aristotle and went into the battlefield with his father.

Who is Alexander the Great?

300

This killed around 60,000 people in Athens during the Peloponnesian War.

What is a plague, fever, or typhoid?

400

In Athens' Council of 500, council members were chosen by this method. 

What is a lottery?

400

This city state's boys went to school and learned about art, music, sports, and public speaking. They went to military school at age 18.

What is Athens?

400

This alliance was formed in 478 BC between Sparta and Athens to fight against Persia.

What is the Delian League?

400

This storyteller used animals as his characters and always taught the listeners a lesson.

Who was Aesop?

400

This is another name for the slaves in Sparta?

What are helots?

500

This type of government is when a few powerful people are in control.

What is an oligarchy?

500

This city state did not allow visitors nor did it allow its citizens to travel. 

What is Sparta?

500

This legendary war was fought between Sparta and Troy when Paris stole Helen away from her husband. It ended with a giant wooden horse invading the city of Troy and the soldiers inside killing the Trojan people.

What was the Trojan War?

500

This leader in Athens died during the plague that broke out during the Peloponnesian War.

Who is Pericles?

500

This is when beliefs, art, architecture, and inventions are shared between cultures.

What is cultural diffusion?