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Greece developed along this major sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
100
This ancient Greek word means "city-state."
What is polis?
100
This was the largest polis in ancient Greece.
What is Athens?
100
This group defeated the Minoans.
Who were the the Mycenaeans?
100
Alexander conquered the known areas of the ancient world.
What are Greece, Egypt, Persia, and India?
200
Greece's most important mountain.
What is Mt. Olympus?
200
This form of government means "rule by the few or powerful."
What is an oligarchy?
200
The slaves in this polis outnumbered the citizen 7:1.
What is Sparta?
200
Athens won this land battle without Sparta on an open plain.
What is the Battle of Marathon?
200
This philosopher was forced to drink hemlock for inciting rebellion against the government of Athens.
Who was Socrates?
300
Greece's most ancient culture developed on one of these two major islands.
What is Crete and Rhodes?
300
This word means an earth-centered universe.
What is geocentric?
300
A large hill where the city residents could seek shelter in times of war.
What is the acropolis?
300
These two leagues were formed before the Peloponnesian Wars.
What are the Dellian and Peloponnesian Leagues?
300
He distrusted democracy and wrote an important work that impacted the writing of the US Constitution.
Who was Plato?
400
This is the largest plain in Greece.
What is Attica?
400
This was the model Greek city.
What is Alexandria, Egypt?
400
These men sang and danced about events in a play.
What is chorus?
400
Homer recorded this war in these books that centered around a beautiful woman and a man's journey home to his family.
What are the Illiad and the Odyssey?
400
Stated that the world is comprised of the basic element of water.
Who was Thales?
500
This is the largest peninsula southwest of Attica shaped like a giant hand.
What is the Peloponnesus?
500
This is the major goal of Greek art.
What is to present nature in an orderly and balanced way?
500
The reason the Greek polises were not unified a common culture.
What is isolating geography?
500
During the Peloponnesian Wars, even after ravaging diseases this finally defeated the city of Athens.
What is their food supply was cut off?
500
This scientist proposed a heliocentric view of the universe.
Who was Aristarchus?