Greek Government & Demokratia
This Greek city‑state is known as the birthplace of democracy.
What is Athens?
This city‑state trained boys for the military starting at age 7.
What is Sparta?
This empire invaded Greece during the Persian Wars.
What is Persia?
The Peloponnesian War was fought between Athens and this rival.
What is Sparta?
This athletic competition began in Olympia to honor Zeus.
What are the Olympic Games?
This Macedonian king created an empire from Greece to India.
Who is Alexander the Great?
In Athens, this large group of male citizens met to vote on laws.
What is the Assembly (Ekklesia)?
This city‑state focused on education, arts, and public speaking.
What is Athens?
The Athenians defeated the Persians at this 490 BCE battle that led to people running 26 miles to honor the victory.
What is Marathon?
This deadly event killed Pericles and 1/3 of Athens.
What is the plague?
This part of the front of Greek buildings used Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian styles.
What are Greek columns?
This city in Egypt became the center of learning during the Hellenistic Era.
What is Alexandria?
Sparta had this form of government.
What is oligarchy?
These are the invaders the Spartans descended from.
Who are the Dorians?
This Spartan king Leonidas led this many soldiers standing against the Persians at Thermopylae so the rest of the Greek army could escape.
What is 300?
Sparta made an alliance with this empire to defeat Athens.
What is Persia?
This historian is known as the “Father of History.”
Who is Herodotus?
This scientist measured Earth’s circumference with surprising accuracy.
Who is Eratosthenes?
This leader created the Council of 500 and expanded democracy.
Who is Cleisthenes?
Athenian women stayed home, but Spartan women had this major difference.
What is more freedom and physical training?
This battle was the last in the Persian Wars and was the first 1:1 fair fight.
What is Plataea?
One major effect of the war was that Greek city‑states became weak and open to conquest by this northern kingdom.
What is Macedonia?
This historian acted like a modern reporter and began focusing on factual history.
Who is Thucydides?
He ruled Egypt after the death of Alexander the Great and his great-great-great-great-great-great-great Grandfather to Cleopatra.
Who was Ptolemy I?
This democratic concept developed in Greece and influenced how the United States hears the voices of its citizens today.
What is voting?
Name two differences in government between Athens and Sparta.
Athens = democracy; Sparta = oligarchy with two kings
Athens entered into one of these because of the Greek victory over Persia.
What is a Golden Age?
This alliance, formed on the island of Delos, gave Athens too much power according to the Spartans.
What is the Delian League?
This aspect of Greek culture has endured and continues to inspire Hollywood.
What are Greek new dramas?
This Athenian statesman guided Athens for 30 years, expanded democracy by paying citizens for public service, rebuilt the Acropolis after the Persian Wars, and used funeral speeches to remind Athenians of their civic duty — yet his leadership also helped create the conditions that led to the Peloponnesian War.
Who is Pericles?