Vocab
a gathering place; marketplace in ancient Greece
What is an agora?
Around 700 BC, Greece established colonies because the local farmers could not produce enough of this
What is grain/food?
This city-state was known for its military
What is Sparta?
He built a strong Persian army and expanded the Persian Empire
Who was Cyrus?
During the Peloponnesian War, Athenians stayed safe inside their walled city until this broke out
What is disease?
an absolute ruler unrestrained by law
What is a tyrant?
The Greek alphabet was based on an alphabet created by these people
Who are the Phoenicians?
Sparta's economy was based on this
What is agriculture (farming)?
This Spartan king led 7,000 soldiers at Thermopylae
Who was Leonidas?
This leader made Athens more demoncratic
Who was Pericles?
a high-ranked government official in Sparta who was elected by the council of elders
What is an ephor?
This was an important economic activity for the Minoans
What is trade?
This tyrant became popular by giving land to landless farmers
Who was Solon?
This Persian king invaded Greece at Marathon
Who was Darius?
The top ten officials in the Athenian assembly
Who are generals?
a Persian religion based on the belief of one god
What is Zoroastrianism?
The Mycenaeans learned how to do this from the Minoans
What is to navigate the seas?
this city-state was known as the birthplace of democracy
What is Athens?
What is Anatolia?
Sparta was able to defeat Athens at the end of the Peloponnesian War by doing this
What is destroying their fleet and blockading the city
enslaved people in ancient Sparta
What are helots?
What is reading and writing (keeping records)?
The government of this city-state was an oligarchy
What is Sparta?
This Persian king invaded Greece and was later defeated at the Battle of Salamis
Who was Xerxes?
The reason Athens had to trade with other city-states
What is they didn't have sufficient land to grow enough crops?