The most powerful empire of this time period. Located in Persia, or modern day Iran.
Who were the Persians?
200
Crete
What is the largest island in Greece?
200
By trading.
How did the Minoans become wealthy?
200
Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Caryatid
What were the 4 types of columns in ancient Greece?
200
Free men who lived in Sparta and worked as merchants or artisans.
What was the periocei?
200
Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, Platea
Where were the 4 major battles of the Persian War?
300
Mount Olympus
Where did the Greeks believe the gods lived?
300
A volcano eruption on a nearby island and attacks from the Mycenaeans.
How the the Minoan civilization end?
300
Geometric, Black Figure, Red Figure, White Ground
What were the 4 styles of Greek Pottery?
300
In Sparta they could go to school to learn training, own land, handle business and become citizens (but they could never be involved in the government)
What was life like for women in Sparta?
300
Peloponnesian War.
What was the war that was fought between the Spartans and Athenians.
400
Sparta, Athens, Corinth, Megara, Argos
What were the five most powerful city-states?
400
Their art showed pictures of war instead of pictures of daily life.
How was Mycenaean art different from Minoan art?
400
Participated in Olympics, polytheism, had an acropolis and an agora.
What did ALL city states have in common?
400
Made of 28 men over 60 years old. They created ideas for laws.
What was the Spartan Council?
400
The Persians wanted revenge on the Athenians for trying to fight them when they were conquering the land of Greece.
What caused the Persian War?
500
The Ionian Sea, The Mediterranean Sea, The Aegean Sea, The Sea of Crete
What are the four seas near Greece?
500
A time of violence where art and writing declined.
What were the Dark Ages?
500
Government, Architecture, Philosophy and Drama.
What are some aspects of OUR culture that have been influenced by the Greeks?