Geography
This term describes land surrounded by water on three sides, like Greece itself.
What is peninsula?
This word describes a Greek city-state. Athens and Sparta are both examples.
What is a polis?
Before Athens became a democracy in 508 BCE, these three types of rulers controlled the city.
What are kings, oligarchs, and tyrants?
This group, which welcomed all citizens for discussion of issues and to propose laws, met in the Agora.
What is the ecclesia?
Unlike Athens, Sparta had this type of government at the top — two of them, in fact.
What are kings?
This mountain range, located in central Europe, spans countries including Italy, France and Switzerland.
What are the Alps?
Government by the people.
What is democracy?
In ancient Athens, only these people were considered citizens.
Who are free-born men aged 18 and older?
These are three things that happened in the Agora.
What are trade, government, and philosophy? (accept any 3: also religion, legal proceedings)
In Sparta, these people, also called helots, did many kinds of work and were owned by the polis.
This river flows through Germany, Austria, Hungary, Romania, and several other countries on its way to the Black Sea.
What is the Danube?
This is the study of ideas about knowledge, truth, and the meaning of life.
What is philosophy?
Who was Draco the Tyrant?
Philosophers like Zeno taught in this building in the Agora.
What is the Stoa?
In Sparta, only these people were entitled to tombstones.
Who are men who died in battle or women who died in childbirth?
Both Sicily and Crete are located in this sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
A mountain, river, island, or peninsula are all examples of this.
This council of 500 citizens chosen by lottery set the agenda for Athenian democracy.
What is the Boule?
Jurors for Athenian trials were selected by this method, not by application or election.
What is lottery?
Unlike Athenian women, Spartan women had this right that Athenian women did not.
What is the right to own property or the right to go to school?
This peninsula includes Greece but also parts of Bulgaria, Serbia, and Croatia.
What is the Balkan Peninsula?
Thera sent settlers to establish the city of Cyrene in North Africa. This is what Cyrene is called in relation to Thera.
What is a colony?
This reformer gave citizens real power after a revolt of common people, officially launching Athenian democracy in 508 BCE.
Who is Cleisthenes?
Unlike the Boule which was chosen by lottery, citizens used this method to choose generals and other positions requiring special expertise.
What is an election (vote)?
In Sparta, male citizens had to be this age to participate in the citizen assembly — older than Athens required.
What is 30?