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100
Greeks frequently took slaves from among this group.
Who are prisoners of war?
100
These are Greece's 2 major crops.
What are olives and grapes?
100
This person introduced democracy to Athens, ending tyrannical rule.
Who is Cleisthenes?
100
This is the name given to Spartan's unfree labor.
What are helots?
100
It is from this Greek word meaning "city-state" that we derive our word "political".
What is polis?
200
This is the name of the war fought between Athens and Sparta.
What is the Pelopponesian War?
200
These are the two types of Greek drama.
What are tragedy and comedy?
200
This philosopher was one of the first to systemize philosophy, and his work in physics and science also earned him great acclaim.
Who is Aristotle?
200
This was the Spartans' form of government, in which power rests with a small group of the elites.
What is oligarchy?
200
These are two poems written about the Mycenaean War.
What are the Iliad and the Odyssey?
300
This is where Alexander the Great died at the age of 33.
Where is Babylon?
300
These are the 3 social classes in Greece.
What are aristocrats, merchants and farmers?
300
This person created laws to ease the debts on farmers.
Who is Solon?
300
Athens tried and failed to invade this island, in search of new colonies.
What is Sicily?
300
This is the name of Alexander the Great's horse.
What is Bucephelus?
400
This is the battle in which King Darius of Persia was killed
What is the battle of Marathon?
400
This god was worshipped at the site of the Delphic Oracles.
Who is Apollo?
400
This man, considered the world's first historian, recorded the events of the Persian War and is the only reason we know about many of its battles.
Who is Herodotus?
400
athis is the peninsula on which Sparta is located.
What is the Peloponnesus peninsula?
400
These are the 3 styles of Greek architecture.
What are Doric, Ionic and Corinthian?
500
After the death of Alexander, these 3 dynasties arose in his conquered lands.
What are the Ptolemies, Seleucids and Antigonids?
500
This is Plato's most famous work.
What is The Republic.
500
This Greek orator defended democracy as the most just system of democracy.
Who is Pericles?
500
This is the name of the last tyrant of Athens.
Who is Pisistratus?
500
This is the Greek god whose name means "Lord".
Who is Adonis?