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Vocabulary
People
Minoans
Mycenaeans
Places
100
A name for a Greek city-state
What is polis?
100
He rebuilt Athens after the Persian War and ordered the construction of the Parthenon.
Who is Pericles?
100
A Minoan religious (maybe) festival.
What is bull jumping?
100
26.2 miles.
What is the distance from Marathon to Athens?
100
Sparta
What is the city-state that has the most powerful military?
200
An open-air market in a Greek city-state
What is an agora?
200
He discovered the atom.
Who is Democritus?
200
King Minos is the Minoan king we know the most about.
Why are the Minoans called the Minoans.
200
Minoan civilization.
Who did the Mycenaeans invade in 1100 B. C.?
200
Delphi
What is the place where the Greeks consulted a famous oracle?
300
A person who is a conquered slave in Sparta.
What is a helot?
300
He was Darius II's son and tried to conquer Greece.
Who is Xerxes?
300
The elaborate palace at Knossos.
What did the myth of the Labrynth come from?
300
Odysseus.
Who thought of the Trojan Horse?
300
Salamis
What is the site of the sea battle where Greece drove off the Persians?
400
The rule by a few aristocrats.
What is an oligarchy?
400
He was the "Father of History."
Who was Herodotus?
400
The word "axe."
What is the word "labyrinth" derived from?
400
Atreus or Agamemnon.
Who is one of the Kings of Mycenae?
400
Asia Minor.
What is the site of Troy and other Greek colonies that were taken by Persia?
500
A weak leader who is popular by lying to the people.
What is a demagogue?
500
He made the first Athenean democratic reforms.
Who was Cleisthenes?
500
The only Minoan writing system that we can read.
What is Linear B?
500
Heinrich Schliemann in 1870.
Who "discovered" Mycenae and when?
500
Thermopylae
What is the place where 300 Spartans tried to hold back 100,000 Persians and fought to the last man?