Athens
War
Ancient Greece
Another War
Pot Luck!
100
The highest part of Athens, the location of important buildings
What is the Acropolis?
100
truce
What is an agreement to stop fighting?
100
A major responsibility of women in 5th century B.C. Athens was the management of the
What is household?
100
Sparta had the strongest __________________
What is Army?
100
The chapter and section that Athenian Democracy and War is located in our World History book.
What is Chapter 8 Section 1?
200
Pericles saw the destruction from the war as a chance to rebuild and ____________ the city of Athens.
What is beautify?
200
At the end of the Persian war, the Greek city-states formed a league for mutual protection.
What is the Delian League
200
This building was considered the most magnificent on the Acropolis - a true masterpiece. It served as a temple to the warrior goddess, Athena.
What is Parthenon?
200
Athens had the strongest ________________.
What is Navy?
200
When the plAGUE broke out in Athens during the Peloponnesian war, 1 out of every 3 met their demise. Mrs. Kalaitsides called the plAGUE something funny...
What is the "AGUE"?
300
Other city-states were angry with Pericles because he used _______ meant for mutual protection to rebuild Athens.
What is money?
300
Athens was left in ruins after the war with __________ ended in 479 B.C.
What is Persia?
300
In ancient Greece direct democracy all ________ voted on all issues pertaining to the city-state.
What are citizens?
300
Sparta headed a league of city states to stand up against the power of the Athenian empire. This league was called the ______________ .
What is Peloponnesian league?
300
In Pericles' Funeral Oration he wants to unite people, he wants the people to believe that _________________ is worth dying for.
What is Democracy?
400
By about 460 B.C., this man had become the strongest leader in Athens.
Who is Pericles?
400
Athens dominated and controlled the Delian League because Athens controlled the strong fleet/superior __________.
What is the Navy?
400
Some major waterways the Greeks use for trade were the Black Sea and the _____________________ Sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
400
In 431 BC _______________ declared war on Athens.
Who is Sparta
400
The symptoms of this included; high fever, inflamed eyes, coughing, extreme thirst, vomiting & red blisters on the skin.
What is the plague?
500
The plague that killed thousands of people during the first years of the Peloponnesian War also killed this leader
Who is Pericles?
500
These were Athenian Navy had ships propelled by 3 tiers of oarsmen. Athens fleet was the largest and best in the Mediterranean.
What are Triremes?
500
A contributions to society of Greek origin can be seen in action everyday here at Miller South VPA
What is DRAMA!!
500
The Persians helped Sparta improve their________ and the Spartans captured the Athenian fleet in 405 B.C. Athens surrendered to Sparta the next year.
What is Navy?
500
The oldest recorded Greek riddle is the famous riddle of the Sphinx of Thebes, which was solved by Oedipus: What walks on four legs in the morning, on two in the afternoon, and on three in the evening?
What is MAN? For man crawls on all fours as a baby in the morning of his life, walks on his two legs in the afternoon of his life, and in the evening of his life hobbles with a stick, so that he then could be said to have three legs.