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Early Greeks
Athens
Sparta
Leaders
Battles
100
Athletic contests held every four years to honor their gods.
What are the Olympics?
100
There form of government in which the power is in the hands of the people.
What is a democracy?
100

All boys were taken from their families and raised by the state to be soldiers at what age?

What is age seven.

100

This leader was an elected tyrant who freed the slaves and cancelled debts?

Who is Solon.

100

Name the battle where Leonidas's small army fought off the Persians, giving the Greeks time to assemble further south.

What is The Battle of Thermopylae?

200
The ruler of the gods.
Who is Zeus?
200
What were the cultural interests of Athens?
What is learning and the arts?
200
A Spartan slave.
What is a helot?
200

Who's reform system was "of the people, for the people and by the people"?

Who is Cleisthenes.

200

Who started the Peloponnesian War in 431 B.C.?

Sparta had enough of Athenian aggression and declared war on Athens.

300

Is an independent political unit in which a dominant city rules the surrounding area.

What is a city-state?

300

How were Athenian boys raised?

Boys received an education and some military training.

300
Spartan style city-state.
What is a military state?
300

Whose reform expanded participation in government to include all male property owners born in Athens?

Who is Cleisthenes.

300

What broke the truce between Athens and Sparta and how?

In 414 B.C. Athens surrounded Syracuse to take control of the rich city of Sicily.

400
Greek goddess of wisdom.
Who is Athena?
400
The Athenian temple for Athena.
What is the Parthenon?
400
A government controlled by a few.
What is an oligarchy?
400

Leader who established a direct democracy?

Who is Pericles.

400
Battle where a united Greek army defeated the Persians in 479 B.C.
Battle of Plataea.
500
A fortified hilltop at the center of a Greek city-state.
What is an acropolis?
500
Part of the Athenian government that held the most power.
What is the Assembly?
500
What action did Sparta take against a defeated Athen's?

What was replaced Athenian democracy with an oligarchy.

500

The emperor who vowed to punish Athens as revenge for helping Ionia.

Who is Darius I

500

Who did Sparta align with to strengthen and eventually defeat Athens?

Who is Sparta's old enemy Persia.