Mycenaeans/Minoans
Sparta
Athens
Generals and Battles
Myths
100

This capital holds Minoan Palace culture.

Knossos

100

The highest rank of Spartan society.

Spartiates

100

The biggest and most important temple of Athens, built by Pericles

The Parthenon

100

The plain of this famous battle where a messenger had to run 26 miles gives us the name of a modern running event.

The Battle of Marathon

100

This god forged Pandora.

Haphaestus

200

The Minoans were possibly ruled by women, also known as ___________.

Matriarchy

200

This great reformer gave Sparta its strict law code

Lycurgus

200

This reformer banned debt slavery

Solon

200

Themistocles won this battle just before being ostracized.

Plateia.

200

This deep pit serves as a prison for the Titans.

Tartarus

300

The Mycenaeans built these famous fortresses with massive stones.

The Cyclopean Fortresses.

300

These were the lowest classes of Spartan society

Helots

300

This practice put officials into office by lottery.

Sortition

300

This deformed man betrayed Leonidas and the Spartans at Thermopylae and revealed an old goat trail.

Ephialtes.

300

This Titan gave Kronos and Rhea a prophecy that their children would kill their father.

Gaia.

400

The Mycenaeans were this ethniciy/language group.

Indo-Europeans

400

This secret organization killed potential helot revolutionaries.

The Krypteia

400

Athena's gift to the city of Athens that beat out Poiseiden's salt water fountain.

Olive Tree

400

Unlike most men of authority in Athens, this general was elected and gave a famous funeral oration.

Pericles.

400

Zeus deployed these monsters to fight the Titans

the 300 hand monsters.
500

This volcanic event ended the Minoan Civilization.

The Thera Eruption

500

When the Spartans won the Peloponnesian War, they installed this regime ruled by Critias.

The 30 Tyrants.

500

The five classes of Solon's constitution

the 500 (pentakosiamedoimnoi), the 300 (hippeis), the 200 (Zeugetai), Thetes

500

This Spartan King led his men at Thermopylae

Leonidas

500

Prometheus' brother.

Epimetheus