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Vocabulary
Athens
Sparta
Government
Alexander the Great
100
A body of land that is surrounded on three sides by water
What is a peninsula?
100
Athens had this kind of government
What is a democracy?
100
Sparta had this type of government
What is an oligarchy?
100
This is a form of government where the ruling power is in the hands of one person, usually a king
What is a monarchy?
100
This is where Alexander the Great was from
What is Macedonia?
200
A traditional story that helps explain a culture's beliefs
What is a myth?
200
Athens' economy relied on this
What is trade?
200
Sparta's economy relied on this
What is farming and/or military conquest?
200
This is a form of government in which a person who is not a lawful king holds the power
What is a tyranny?
200
To further proclaim his authority, Alexander claimed to be the son of this
What is Zeus (and/or God)
300
A marketplace in ancient Greece
What is an agora?
300
These were the important things in Athenian education
What is book learning & physical fitness (literature, art, books, etc)
300
This type of education was important to young Spartans
What is military training?
300
This is a form of government in which the governing power is in the hands of a few wealthy people
What is an oligarchy?
300
This city is the most the famous of all of Alexander's
What is Alexandria?
400
A member of the most powerful class in ancient Greek society.
What is an aristocrat?
400
Citizenship was possible for all citizens in Athens, with the exception of these two groups
What are women and slaves?
400
Women in Sparta had these rights that women in Athens did not
What is they could marry; own businesses; own property; fight
400
This is a form of government in which the power is in the hands of the citizens?
What is a democracy?
400
This happened to Alexander's empire, after he died
What is the empire was divided into three kingdoms (Egypt, Syria, and Macedonia & Greece)?
500
A person who has certain rights or duties in a city-state or nation
What is a citizen?
500
This factor made trade very accessible to Athenians
What is Athens is located by the water?
500
In Sparta, a slave was able to be a free man by doing the following
What is he could buy his freedom?
500
This was the first form of government that ancient Greece tried, before settling for democracy
What is a monarchy?
500
Three ways Alexander used to unite his empire were to spread Greek ideas, adopt the conquered culture's ways, and this
What is using religion?