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Geography and Polis
Government and Politics
Wars
Alexander the Great and Athens/Sparta
Philosophers and Achievements
100
The type of geography that isolated the many Greek city-states.
What are mountains?
100
The form of government in which the power is in the hands of the people.
What is a democracy?
100
The Persian leader who created a massive empire and treated those he conquered with respect.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
100
The culture Alexander spread through his conquests.
What is Greek culture?
100
The philosopher that believed in moderation, reasoning, and inferences.
Who is Aristotle?
200
A type of landform that is surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
200
A government controlled by a few aristocrats.
What is an oligarchy?
200
A battle in the Persian War where the Greeks outwitted the Persians by hiding behind a strait and then sinking their ships.
What is the Battle of Salamis?
200
Alexander created this as a result of his conquests.
What is an empire?
200
The famous blind poet who wrote about wars and heroes.
Who is Homer?
300
One of Greece's well-known crops.
What are olives, grapes, wheat, barley, or citrus?
300
Who were the three great Athenian philosophers?
Who are Socrates, Plato and Aristotle?
300
This helped Athens become powerful after the Persian War.
What is their navy?
300
This city-state had their boys begin physical training at age 7.
What is Sparta?
300
The famous mathematician who introduced geometry.
Who is Euclid?
400
A steep hill where citizens met to debate ideas.
What is the pnyx?
400
The type of democracy where all citizens voted for all issues.
What is direct democracy?
400
This caused the Peloponnesian War.
What is Athens becoming too powerful and using the Delian League to help themselves?
400
This city-state valued education, intellect, and arts.
What is Athens?
400
The father of medicine who tried to discover the causes of disease.
Who is Hippocrates?
500
A fortified hilltop at the center of a Greek city-state.
What is an acropolis?
500
The Great Persian leader who started the Persian War after the Ionians revolted.
Who is Darius I?
500
This was the result of the Peloponnesian War.
What is Sparta took control, but then the city-states began fighting.
500
This city-state allowed women more power.
What is Sparta?
500
The temple dedicated to Athena.
What is the Parthenon?