A MARKET AND A PLACE WHERE
PEOPLE MEET AND DEBATE
AGORA
THIS CIVILIZATION WAS THE FIRST
TO ARISE IN ANCIENT GREECE
MINOAN
A NEW SETTLEMENT THAT KEEPS
COLOSE TIES TO ITS HOMELAND
COLONY
ONE FACTOR THAT HELPED CAUSE
THE COLLAPSE OF BOTH MINOAN
AND MYCENAEN CIVILIZATION
EARTHQUAKES
A BODY OF LAND WITH WATER ON
THREE SIDES
PENINSULA
A FORTIFIED AREA, USUALLY ON A
HILL
A GREEK CITY-STATE
ANCIENT GREEKS MADE THEIR
LIVING RAISING THIS ANIMAL
THEY RAN GREEK CITY-STATES
CITIZENS
ACROPOLIS
IN ORDER TO BE A GREEK
“CITIZEN” YOU HAD TO HAVE
THESE QUALITIES:
FREE NATIVE-BORN MAN
WHO OWNED LAND
POLIS
A PERSON WHO TAKES POWER BY
FORCE AND RULES WITH TOTAL
AUTHORITY
TYRANT
SHEEP
THE SPARTAN NAME FOR A
CAPTIVE WORKER
HELOT
OLIGARCHY
THIS IS HOW A BOY’S LIFE IN
ATHENS DIFFERED FROM A BOY’S
LIFE IN SPARTA
A SPARTAN WHO ENFORCED LAWS
AND MANAGED TAX COLLECTION
EPHOR
THE 594 B.C. RULER WHOSE
REFORMS WERE POPULAR
AMOUNG THE COMMON PEOPLE
SOLON
GOVERNMENT SYSTEM IN WHICH
ALL CITIZENS SHARE IN RUNNING
THE GOVERNMENT
DEMOCRACY
THE AREA KNOWN TODAY AS
SOUTHWESTERN IRAN
PERSIA
THE TYPE OF LEADER WHO CAME
TO POWER IN GREECE AROUND 600
B.C..
TYRANT
THE PLACE WHERE THE GREEK
FLEET ATTACKED THE PERSIAN
FLEET
STRAIT OF SALAMIS
SPARTA USED THIS TO CONTROL
ITS CITIZENS
THE MILITARY
GOVERNMENT SYSTEM IN WHICH A
FEW PEOPLE HOLD POWER
SPARTAN WOMEN WERE TRAINED
IN THIS
RUNNING, WRESTLING,
JAVELIN
THE RELIGION OF PERSIA
MEANS “PROTECTOR OF THE
KINGDOM”
ATHENIAN BOYS WENT TO
SCHOOL; SPARTAN BOYS
SERVED IN THE MILITARY
ZOROASTRIANISM
SATRAP
THE SON OF DARIUS
THE PERSIAN EMPIRE UNDER
CYRUS THE GREA COVERED
NORTHERN MESOPOTAMIA, SYRIA,
CANAAN, THE PHOENICIAN CITIES,
AND __________
KING DARIUS’ POWER DEPENDED
ON THIS
WHICH TWO RIVAL ARMIES CAME
TOGETHER TO DEFEAT THE
PERSIANS IN 499 B.C.?
WHO WROTE HISTORY OF THE
PERSIAN WARS?
WHAT ANGERED THE SUBJECTS OF
THE PERSIAN EMPIRE AND CAUSED
THEM TO REBEL?
XERXES
A WELL-EDUCATED WOMAN WHO
TAUGHT PUBLIC SPEAKING IN
ATHENS
ASPASIA
ASIA MINOR (TURKEY)
A DOMINANT FIGURE IN ATHENIAN
POLITICS
PERICLES
HIS ARMY
MASS GATHERINGS WHERE MANY
DECIDE GOVERNMENTAL
MATTERS
DIRECT DEMOCRACY
GREEKS AND ATHENIANS
A THINKER WHO PONDERS THE
QUESTIONS OF LIFE
PHILOSOPHER
HERODOTUS
A SMALL GROUP MAKES
GOVERNMENTAL DECISIONS ON
BEHALF OF MANY
REPRESENTATIVE
DEMOCRACY
BEGINNING IN 478 B.C. THIS
LEAGUE SERVED AS THE
TREASURY AND COMMANDER OF
THE FLEET
THE DELIAN LEAGUE
HIGH TAXES
THE AGE OF PERICLES WAS
KNOWN AS A PERIOD OF
CREATIVITY & LEARNING
______________ & _______________
PERICLES IS RESPONSIBLE FOR
CONSTRUCTING THIS FAMOUS
BUILDING, WITH TOOK 15 YEARS,
20,000 TONS OF MARBLE; AND $3
BILLION (IN TODAY’S MONEY) TO
COMPLETE
THE ATHENIAN ECONOMY WAS
SUPPORTED BY
______________ & _______________
THE PARTHENON
FARMING & TRADE
IN 431 B.C., SPARTA AND OTHER
CITY-STATES JOINED FORCES
AGAINST ATHENS TO FIGHT THIS
WAR
THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR