ancient civ. chapter 7!!!

age of great creativity and learning in Athens

Age of Pericles

focused on government and education

Athens

How did Athens and Sparta differ

Athens had a large number or foreign residents and Sparta had few

the Mycenaeans came to Greece from...

Central Asia

Which islands were on a trade route to the west

Corsica and Crete

King of Persia

Cyrus the Great

What ruler divided the Persian empire into states to make it easier to manage

Darius

brought iron weapons to the Greeks

Dorians

Who committed wrongs against the Persians

Greeks

The History of the Persian Wars was written by...

Herodotus

site of a battle between Athenians and Persians

Marathon

a war between Sparta and Athens that lasted 27 years

Peloponnesian War

made Athens more democratic

Pericles

What leader extended Athen's democracy

Pericles and Solon

The Greek alphabet was based on what alphabet

Phoenician

focused on military service

Spartans

During this battle, many people may have shouted Run Pheidippides Run

The Battle of Marathon

When the Persian fleet had entered the channel with their large ships, smaller Greek warships surrounded them? What battle was this

The Battle of Salamis

Although Greece lost this battle(attacked from behind), they were able to assembly 200 ships

The Battle of Thermopylae

What marked the beginning of the Persian Wars

The Ionian Revolt

What was the first civilization to start in the region that later became known as Greece

The Minoans

The Persian religion was called...

Zoroastrianism

open area used for a meeting place and a market

agora

What resulted from the Greek Dark Age

and expansion of Greek culture

Who helped defeat the Persians in the Persian Wars

both Athens and Sparta

What was Xerxes planning to do

conquer Greece

The Greeks won the Battle of Salamis because their ships...

could move around quickly

The Spartans differed from other city-states in that they...

did not set up colonies

enforced laws and collected taxes in Sparta

ephors

In the Peloponnesian War, Sparta and Athens...

fought against each other

Darius wanted to expand the Persian empire to...

gain control of many Greek trade routes

ordinary citizens in the army

hoplites

What made the direct democracy of Athens possible

its small number of citizens

The Greek concept of citizenship usually applied to...

landowning, native-born men

Each Greek polis was like a tiny independent country because...

mountains and seas divided them from one another

form of government used by the Spartans

oligarchy

a body of land with ocean on three sides

peninsula

Early Greek soldiers marched in a formation called...

phalanx

thinkers who pondered questions about life

philosophers

Greek city-state

polis

The Delian League began as an alliance to...

protect the Greeks from the Persians

Persian states

satrapies

"defenders of the kingdom"

satraps

The ephors in Sparta had a function similar to the what in Persia

satraps

a narrow body of land with water on both sides

strait

Why did many Greek city-states send people to settle the shores of the Black Sea

to import foods from the colonies

Why did Peisistratus give land to landless farmers

to win widespread support and end an era of turmoil

The Minoans made their living as...

traders

rules with total authority

tyrant

could not leave home without a male relative

upper-class Athenian women

The Mycanaean kingdoms had...

very organized govenment bureaucracies

What area had no Greek colonies

Northwest Africa