People and Places
What is Plato best known for?
Philosophy
Besides the islands off the coast, what landform is the Greek mainland?
A peninsula
What started the Peloponnesian Wars?
The Delian League and the Peloponnesian League disagreed about leadership
Which society's education taught military skills to boys? - Athens, Sparta, or Both?
Both
Who spread Greek culture across the Persian Empire
Who expanded democracy by proposing to pay citizens for serving in the assembly or as jurors.
Pericles
What about the geography contributed to the Greek city-states each ruling themselves?
The mountains isolated them
Describe the effects of the Pelo Wars
The Greek city-states were weakened, so Macedonia easily conquered them.
Describe Spartan military AND government
Sparta’s warrior society had full-time soldiers; they had an oligarchic society run by 2 kings
What was the system called that redistributed food and resources to the Minoans after they were given to the palace
Redistributive Economy
What are the two literary classics that Homer wrote?
The Iliad and the Odyssey
What about Greece's landform facilitated sea trade?
Being a peninsula, it is surrounded by seas
Why did the Delian League form?
To rid the region of any and all Persian threats
Describe Athenian military AND their final government
Athens’s army had citizen-soldiers as needed; their government was a Democracy with the citizens in control
The Phoenicians were best known for what contribution?
Written simplified alphabet
Who were the hoplites?
Citizen-soldiers
Which three of the original River Valley Civilizations did Alexander's Empire unit?
Egypt, Macedonia, and India
Why did the Peloponnesian League start?
For Sparta to protect their claim of the land on the Peloponnese
What building stood as the magnificent centerpiece of Pericles’s reconstruction of Athens
The Parthenon
What poem tells the story of the Trojan War?
The Iliad
Who were the helots?
State-owned slaves
Which three continents did Alexander's empire unite?
Europe, Asia, and Africa
Which leader of Macedonia conquered the Greeks?
Phillip II
Which culture included drama and theater
Athens
What was the process called that diffused Greek culture throughout the Persian Empire?
Hellenization