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Vocabulary
Geography and People of Ancient Greece
Sparta and Athens
Persia and the Persian Wars
Golden Age and Fall of Greece
100
A body of land with water on three sides
Peninsula
100
Largest island in the Mediterranean Sea
Crete
100
Enslaved people in ancient Sparta
Helots
100
Continent where the Persian empire began
Asia
100
Powerful leader of Athens following the Persian War
Pericles
200
A group of people living in a new territory with close ties to their homeland; the territory itself
Colony
200
First group of people to live in the region
Minoans
200
Spartan society was based mostly on
Military/War
200
Persian king who conquered Mesopotamia, Syria, Canaan, and Greek city-states in Antolia
Cyrus the Great
200
Name of the defensive league created to protect Greek city-states from Persia
Delian League
300
A Greek City State
Polis
300
First group of people to live on the Greek mainland
Mycenaeans
300
A high ranking government official in Sparta
Ephor
300
Important road that stretched from Persia to Antolia
Royal Road
300
Name of the 27 year war between Athens and Sparta
Peloponnesian War
400
A ruler who has total authority and is not bound by laws
Tyrant
400
These two geographical features have most influenced life in Greece
Water and Mountains
400
Athens used this to choose new members for their council
Lottery
400
King who sent 600 ships and an army to invade Greece
Darius I
400
Sparta made a deal with Persia to get money to build
A navy
500
A person who searches for wisdom and enlightenment
Philosopher
500
Large farms owned by nobles where slaves and workers farmed and lived
Estates
500
Unlike Sparta, Athens emphasized the importance of this for all of its citizens
Education
500
Powerful Greek ruler who invaded and conquered Persia
Alexander the Great
500
Greece was eventually conquered by this civilization
Macedonia