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What landform made travel and communication difficult in Ancient Greece?
What is Mountains
What type of government was born in Athens?
What is Democracy
What were key characteristics of Spartan society?
What is harsh military training, discipline, and loyalty?
What athletic event began in Ancient Greece to honor Zeus?
What is the Olympic Games
Who ended up conquering Greece and making them part of their empire
Who is Rome
What body of water that Greece surrounds and west of Asia Minor?
What is The Aegean Sea
Who could be a citizen in Athens?
Who is Free men born in the city-state
What war was fought between Athens and Sparta?
What is The Peloponnesian War
The Greeks believed in more than one god. What is the belief in more than one god called?
What is Polytheism
After years of fighting, which city-state won the Peloponnesian War?
Who is Sparta
What is the name for a city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent political unit?
What is City-State
What was life focused on in Sparta?
What is their Military
Who conquered Greece after the city-states weakened?
Who is King Philip II of Macedonia
What was Alexander the Great’s biggest achievements?
What is creating a vast empire and spreading Hellenistic culture
What was one of the causes of the fall of Ancient Greece?
What is The Peloponnesian War, lack of unity, Alexander the Greats death, Geography of Greece
What is the nations capital of Greece?
This was a state-owned slave of the ancient Spartans.
What is Helot
What empire was to the west of Greece and tried to invade them?
The Persian Empire
Name two thing that the Greeks impacted in education and society.
What is Math, Art, Architecture, Philosophy
What happened to Greek culture after the Roman conquest?
What is It spread even further through the Roman Empire and continued to shape Western civilization
What is the name of the Peninsula the country of Greece is on?
What is the Balkan Peninsula
What was the meeting between Athens citizens to debate laws?
What is the Citizens Assembly?
This king took the Persian Empire's army into the Battle of Thermopylae
Who is Xerxes
What iconic architectural (building) design is still used across the Western world today?
What is the Greek column (Ionic, Doric, Corinthian)
The war that was a major reason for the fall of Greece. It was fought between the Roman Republic and the Greek city-states of Carthage and Corinth.
What is the Punic Wars?