Early Greek Civilization
an area of land almost completely surrounded by water and connected to the mainland by a narrow strip of land
What is a peninsula?
During this period, which lasted from 479 to 431 BC, philosophy and arts flourished in Athens, and democracy reached its highest point.
What is the Golden Age of Athens?
All Greek cities had these marketplaces and meeting places, which were the center of public life
What are agoras?
What is always put the city's needs above your own?
wild, uncivilized people
What are barbarians?
What is the Trojan War?
This was the most powerful man in Athenian politics. He was an aristocrat who supported democracy.
Who was Pericles?
This is where most Athenian women spent their days
What is at home?
describe the life of a young boy in ancient Sparta?
What is boys trained to be soldiers from ages 7 to 20. The training was difficult so boys were taught to steal food to survive and bear hardship without complaining?
Alexander the Great became king after this happened to his father King Philip.
What is King Philip was assassinated?
The years from the early 1100s BC to about 750 BC when poverty was everywhere and people no longer traded beyond Greece for food and other goods, and people forgot the practice of writing
What were the Dark Ages?
Name two ideas that governed Greek religion.
What was worshipping immortal gods and goddesses, and visiting oracles?
Almost one-third of Athens's population were these foreigners, many of whom had been captured by armies during war or by pirates while traveling on ships.
What were slaves?
Describe life for girls/women in Sparta
What is girls trained and competed in wrestling and spear throwing, but were not expected to become soldiers. Women were allowed to own land and take part in business.
This happened to Alexander's empire after his death.
What is the empire declined and broke into three main kingdoms?
By the end of Greece's Dark Ages, most city-states were ruled by these people
What are aristocrats?
people who believe that people could use the power of the mind and reason to understand natural events
What are philosophers?
What is "vote" and "own property"?
In the fall of 490 BC, a huge force of these people led by Cyrus the Great landed in Greece, and even though they outnumbered the Greeks, they were defeated and driven away.
Who were the Persians?
This term describes Greek history and culture after the death of Alexander.
What is "Hellenistic"?
The city-state in which democracy was most fully formed
What is Athens?
The goals of Greek art
What was glorifying and honoring the Greek gods.
Name the types of activities that Athenians did in the Agora.
What is men discussed philosophy and bought food and other wares
This war between Athens and Sparta lasted 27 years
What was the Peloponnesian War?
Many scholars went to Alexandria for this reason.
What is they wanted to use the Alexandria library?