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Sparta
100
This civilization was the first to rise in Ancient Greece.
What is the Minoan
100
The Greeks developed mythology to explain this.
What is natural and historical events?
100
This type of leader came to power in Greece around 600 BCE.
What is a tyrant?
100
The rule of this Athenian leader was a great success.
Who is Pisistratus?
100
This is the age that Spartan boys began their military training.
What is 18?
200
This was the first group to establish Greek kingdoms.
What is the Mycenaeans?
200
This goddesses daughter was taken to the underworld in a myth that explained the seasons.
Who is Demeter?
200
This group brought iron weapons to the Greeks.
Who are the Dorians?
200
This word means rules with total authority.
What is tyrant?
200
Spartan men could return to their homes when they reached this age.
What is 30?
300
This is what the Mycenaeans learned from the Minoans.
What is navigation by the sun and stars?
300
This goddess intervened on the side of the Greeks in the Iliad.
Who is Athena?
300
This city-state focused on government and education.
What is Athens?
300
Athens was a part of this post-Persian War alliance.
What is the Delian League?
300
Compared to Athenian women, Spartan women experienced much more of this.
What is freedom?
400
This is the place Mycenaeans came to Greece from.
What is central Asia?
400
This blind man is credited with writing two great Greek epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
400
This man was the leader of Persia during the second Persian invasion.
Who is Xerxes?
400
During the Persian Wars, Athens used this to fight.
What is their navy?
400
This was the reason the Spartans placed so much stress on military service.
What is they feared the helots (slaves) would revolt.
500
The Mycenae Greeks learned this from the Minoans.
What is writing?
500
Mythology did not only feature gods and goddesses, but also heroes like this man who defeated the Minotaur.
Who is Theseus?
500
In Greece, this is the definition of "citizen".
What is a free, Greek man who owned land?
500
This type of government developed in Ancient Athens.
What is democracy?
500
Sparta treated their neighboring city-states this way.
What is conquering and enslaving them?