Geography
Athens
Sparta
Vocabulary
Persia
100

This geographic feature defines Greece as having water on three sides. 

What is a peninsula? 

100

Athens primarily relied on this for their economy.

What is trade?

100

Sparta relied on these two things for their economy.

What are farming and military conquest?

100

These independent locations were similar to independent nations but with a shared culture.

What is a city-state? 

100

This is the main religion of the Persian empire.

What is Zoroastrianism?

200

This geographic feature led to independent Greek city states

What are mountains?

200

Athenians valued this above everything else.

What is education?

200

Spartans valued this above everything else.

What is military strength?

200

This was a place where people could meet, discuss ideas, and trade goods.

What is an agora?

200

This king founded the Persian empire.

Who was Cyrus the great?

300

This body of water allowed Greece to trade with other civilizations.

What is the Mediterranean Sea?

300

This man was the first leader to support democracy in Athens.

Who is Solon?

300

This Spartan king led his soldiers at the Battle of Thermopylae.

Who was King Leonidus?

300

This was a fighting style used by the Greeks.

What is a phalanx?

300

This king led the Persian forces at the Battle of Thermopylae.

Who is Xerxes?

400

The climate and access to food and water helped people choose to settle here. 

Why did people first settle around the Mediterranean? 
400

This leader gave citizenship to Athenians who did not own land. 

Who is Peisistratus?

400

This form of government is where a few powerful people control society, and was also Sparta's government.

What is an oligarchy?

400

This was the term used for slaves captured by the Spartans.

What is a helot?

400

This famous race is named after a famous battle.

What is the Battle of Marathon?

500

How did Greece's geography shape its culture?

The mountains separated Greeks leading to independent city states, while the proximity to the Mediterranean Sea led to Greeks becoming sea-traders with other civilizations. 

500

These were the two legislative bodies that governed Athens under Cleisthenes.

What are the Assembly and the Council of 500?

500

These officials were in charge of collecting taxes in Sparta. 

What is an ephor?

500

This term describes a person who seizes power and rules by themselves.

What is a tyrant? 

500

How were the Greeks able to defeat the larger Persian empire?

They used a series of traps and tricks as well as strategy to defeat the Persians.