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Government
Geography
Achievements
Sparta/Athens
Culture and Society
100
This means the rule of the people.
What is democracy?
100
What is the geography of Greece like?
rocky and mountainous
100
These explained why natural or historical events happened.
What are Greek Myths?
100
They were trained to be soldiers from an early age.
Who are Spartan boys?
100
He was a great leader of Athens during the Peloponnesian War.
Who is Pericles?
200
In this type of government the citizens elect officials to make the laws.
What is representative democracy?
200
What type of landform is Greece?
A large peninsula.
200
These were the first people to consider explanations for events other than that they were the work of the gods.
Who are early Greek philosophers?
200
Just like the men of Sparta, they too were strong and healthy.
Who are Spartan women?
200
They were responsible for the home and slaves and not involved in politics.
Who are Athenian women?
300
What is a government in which only a few people have power?
An oligarchy
300
How did the Greeks overcome the difficulty of traveling by land?
They became expert shipbuilders.
300
These people valued the human mind's ability to think and understand over all else.
Who are Greek philosophers?
300
What is an inference that can be made after comparing the lives of boys in Sparta and Athens?
Athenian boys probably had more interesting lives than Spartan boys.
300
A central part of life in Athens, this was a market and public meeting place where vendors sold goods and men discussed politics.
What is the agora?
400
How was the way people voted in ancient Greece different from our current way of voting?
Voting in ancient Greece took place on broken pieces of pottery.
400
How did Greece's physical geography influence its early civilization?
This encouraged people to be sailors and traders yet kept cities separate from each other.
400
These are two famous writers of Greek plays.
Who are Sophocles and Euripides?
400
This started when Greek cities began to fear that Athens would control Greece.
What is the Peloponnesian War or Peloponnesian League?
400
After the death of Alexander Greek culture and history is best described as...
What is Hellenistic?
500
In Athens aristocrats had more power than citizens. True or False.
What is False?
500
How did Greece's geography hurt and help early Greek people?
It offered little farmland but easy access to the sea for trade.
500
This is an inference that can be made about Greeks based on their achievements.
What is that they valued philosophy and art?
500
The result of this conflict allowed Sparta to become the most powerful city-state in Greece (for a time).
What is the Peloponnesian War?
500
This is how Pericles helped poor citizens get involved in the government.
What is pay salaries to city officials?