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Early Civilization
Greek Religion
Sparta
Athens
Greek Wars
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The people of the civilization named after King Minos.
What are the Minoans?
100
It provided the setting for the Iliad and the background for the Odyssey?
What is the Trojan War?
100
The basis of Spartan society
What is the military?
100
The man responsible for the start of democracy
Who is Cleisthenes?
100
The leader of the Battle of Thermopylae (on the Persian side)
Who is Xerxes?
200
Paintings made on wet plaster walls, found in Knossos
What are frescoes?
200
The place where the gods lived
What is Mount Olympus?
200
The initiation into the Spartan army
What is to kill a helot and not get caught?
200
Athenian economy depended on this
What is trade?
200
A great victory for the Greeks, noted because the Athenians were outnumbered
What is the Battle of Marathon?
300
One of the cities fortified by the Mycenaeans in the Peloponnesus
What is Mycenae, Tiryns, or Pylos?
300
The Greek hero who's adventures are explained in the Odyssey
Who is Odysseus?
300
The Spartan mother would say this phrase to her son (in English) when she was oing off to battle
What is "with this sheild or on it"?
300
Creating small, flat plots of land by building low walls o nthe hillsides and filling the space behind them with soil
What is terracing?
300
An alliance of city-states created by Athens using diplomacy
What is the Delian League?
400
The Greek word for citystate
What is "polis"?
400
The trojan prince who stole Helen, the beautiful wife of a Greek king
Who is Paris?
400
The form of fighting in which multiple lines of infantry stand shoulder to shoulder with their shields out to protect them and hold back the enemy
What is the phalanx?
400
A male slave that a young boy is put in the care of at age 7
What is a pedagogue?
400
Citystate that defeated Sparta in 371 BC
What is Thebes?
500
The four characteristics of all Greek citystates
What is 1. Small size 2. Small population 3. Setting on a hill (acropolis) 4. Public meeting place???
500
The three things the Greeks asked of their religion
What is 1. an explanation for mysteries of the physical world 2. an explanation of the passions that could make the people lose self control 3. a means for gaining such benefits as long life, good fortune, and abundant harvests???
500
The three social classes in Spartan society
What are 1. the equals 2. half citizens 3. helots
500
The three social classes of Athens
What are 1. citizens 2. metics 3. slaves???
500
The cause of the Peloponnesian War
What is Athen's flaunting of power and opposing qualities of Athens and Sparta? Athens may have flaunted their power but Sparta began the fighting.