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This famous Spartan led the Greek forces at the Battle of Thermopylae.
Who is King Leonidas?
This region is home to the city-state of Athens.
What is Attica?
This was the decisive land battle of the Persian Wars.
What is the Battle of Plataea?
This famous Athenian leader died of the plague just two years after the Peloponnesian Wars began.
Who is Pericles?
This is the form of government most associated with Classical Greece, particularly Athens.
What is democracy?
This famous Athenian led the Greek forces at the Battle of Marathon.
Who is Miltiades?
This region is home to the city-state of Sparta.
What is Laconia?
This Greek betrayed the Greek forces at the Battle of Thermopylae, leading to the death of King Leonidas and his famous 300 Spartans.
Who is Ephialtes?
This is the first major phase of the Peloponnesian Wars, lasted for roughly 10 years, and culminated in the Battle of Amphipolis.
What is the Archidamian War?
Though it had elements of two other types of government, this is the form of government most associated with Classical Age Sparta.
What is oligarchy?
This famous Athenian is known as the "father of Athenian democracy" and instituted a number of governmental reforms such as demes, the Council of 500 (Boule), and the 10 tribes.
Who is Cleisthenes?
This body of water bordered both Ancient Greece and Asia Minor where the Persian Empire was located, providing important trade and naval routes, particularly to the Greeks.
What is the Aegean Sea?
This pivotal naval battle was where Themistocles and the Greeks lured Persian ships into narrow waterways, allowing them to picked off one by one.
What is the Battle of Salamis?
This foreign entity became involved in the latter stages of the Peloponnesian Wars at the behest of Sparta.
What is the Persian Empire?
These government reforms involved the ending of debt slavery, cancellation of debts, and returning of property to those it had been taken from.
What were Solon's "shaking off of burdens?"
This Athenian naval commander led the Greek troops at the pivotal Battle of Salamis during the Persian Wars.
Who is Themistocles?
This term refers to a city and its surrounding hinterlands and is comprised of people of similar cultures, languages, and traditions but with differing political systems.
What is a polis?
This Spartan military commander led the Greek troops at the Battle of Plataea.
Who is Pausanias?
These two famous leaders died at the Battle of Amphipolis, removing two aggressive pro-war voices from the Peloponnesian Wars, and paving the way for the Peace of Nicias.
Who are Cleon and Brasidas?
This term refers to a political leader who comes to power through use of fear, prejudice, and passion rather than rational or logical arguments.
What is a demagogue?
This historian wrote The History of the Peloponnesian War and Pericles' Funeral Oration, two of the most important historical accounts of Ancient Greece.
Who is Thucydides?
These structures ran nearly 4 miles from Athens to the Aegean Sea, providing protection during times of war but also contributing to the great plague of ancient Athens.
What are the "long walls?"
This treaty officially brought an end to the Persian Wars some 30 years after the Battle of Plataea.
What is the Peace of Callias?
These two large factions were comprised of hundreds of warring city-states during the Peloponnesian Wars.
What are the Delian League and the Peloponnesian League?
This Greek term was used by Thucydides to refer to the 50 year period of relative peace between the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars.
What is pentekontaetia?