Double Points!! The earliest people of Greece were the ________ who lived on the island of Crete and the ____________ who settled on the Greek mainland
What is Minoans and Mycenaeans?
100
Double Points!! Ancient Greek cities often joined with small towns, villages, and nearby farms to form a kind of large community called a ________, or _________-________.
What is polis, or city-state?
100
The Greeks in Asia Minor were defeated by the ________ in about 500 B.C.
What is Persians?
100
The King of Macedonia, __________, defeated Athens in the Battle of Chaeronea and gained control of most of Greece
What is Philip ?
200
The Geography of Greece made inland travel and trade nearly _________ for the ancient Greeks.
What is impossible?
200
Double points!! The Minoans built huge palaces, which were centers of _______ and _______. The largest palace was called Knossos and was the size of ________ football fields and housed 12,000 people.
What is government and religion? 20
200
To protect themselves from invaders, most Greek city-states built a fort on top of a large hill, called an __________, which was the center of religion.
What is acropolis?
200
The Persians, led by ________, then attacked the Athenians at __________ because they had helped fight the Persians.
What is Darius I and Marathon?
200
Philip respected Greece and wanted to preserve the Greek culture by ____________ the Greek city-states.
What is uniting?
300
Double Points!! Because the villages were so isolated from each other, they had to be very _____________
What is independent?
300
The ________ in the palaces tell us much about the way the Minoans lived and traded.
What is paintings?
300
Double Points!! Outside of the acropolis, you could find an open-air market and gathering place called an _________.
What is agora?
300
Double Points!! The _______ mile long Olympic race called the ________, was named after a messenger who ran all the way to Athens from Marathon to report the Athenian victory over the Persians
What is 26.2 and marathon?
300
Double points!! After Philip was assassinated, his son, ___________, took over the rule.
What is Alexander?
400
Because Greece is so mountainous, there is little room for __________
What is farming?
400
The Mycenaeans were more ________ than the Minoans.
What is warlike?
400
____________ had a strong military culture, which forced boys to leave their families at age 7 to attend training camps and discouraged citizens from ever leaving Sparta
What is Sparta?
400
The son of Darius I, ___________, sent 800 ships to attack the Greeks, and his forces were also defeated.
What is Xerxes?
400
Alexander wanted to ________ the whole known world and spread __________ culture to his new cities.
What is rule and Greek?
500
Double Points!! The seas brought people together through trade and they got ________ and ______from each other.
What is goods and ideas?
500
The poet ______ wrote long story-poems, or ______, about the early Greeks
What is Homer and epics?
500
Double Points!! Athens was well known for its ___________, or rule by the people. All decisions were made by majority rule.
What is democracy?
500
Great thinkers and teachers called philosophers, such as ______, _________ and Aristotle, lived in Athens at this time.
What is Socrates, Platos?
500
Double Points!! The period of Alexander the Great's rule and the next several centuries after his death became known as the __________, or "Greek-like" Age.