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IMS 7A SS Chapter 7
Review for Chapter 7 test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Peninsula | a piece of land nearly surrounded by water |
| Bard | someone who writes or performs epic poems or stories about heroes and their deeds |
| Colony | group of people living in a new territory who have ties to their homeland; the new territory itself |
| Polis | a Greek city state |
| Agora | a gathering place; marketplace in ancient Greece |
| Phalanx | a group of armed, footed soldiers in ancient Greece arranged close together in rows |
| Democracy | a government by the people |
| Direct Democracy | form of democracy in which all citizens can participate firsthand in the decision making process |
| Representative Democracy | a form of democracy in which citizens elect officials to govern on their behalf |
| Satrap | the governor of a province in ancient Persia |
| Tyrant | an absolute ruler unrestrained by law |
| Philosopher | a person who searches for wisdom and enlightenment |
| Satrapy | the territory governed by an official known as a satrap |
| Ephor | a high ranked government official in Sparta who was elected by the council of elders |
| Helot | enslaved person in ancient Sparta |
| Zoroastrianism | a Persian religion based on the belief of one god |
| Many communities in ancient Greece were separated by | mountains and valleys, which resulted in the development of independent states |
| The Greek alphabet was based | on the Phoenician alphabet |
| Unlike citizens of Greece | people in ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt had no rights and no voice in governments |
| The Acropolis | was the hilltop where forts stood and where Greeks built temples to honor local god |
| Many tyrants came to power in Greece after 650 BC | because there was growing unrest among merchants, artisans, and farmers |
| Spartans leaders favor a military society | because they thought it created obedient and loyal citizens |
| Spartan women could own property and travel | since the Spartan men lived away |
| Sparta had a strict government that discouraged | free thinking and new ideas |
| Spartans differed from the rest of the Greeks | in that they discouraged trade, leading to isolation |
| Cleisthenes | was the Athenian leader responsible for creating a new council of 500 citizens |
| Athens and Sparta differed in their forms of government since | Athens was a democracy and Sparta was a Oligarchy |
| The reforms of Cleisthenes made | the government of Athens more democratic |
| In Athenian society | even educated women were not seen as equals to men |
| Themistocles | the director of the Greek Naval forces, directed the war between Greece and Persia |
| The Greeks were able to defeat the Persian fleet at the Strait of Salamis | in part because their ships were smaller and faster |
| The Persian Empire finally ended | when it was invaded by Alexander the Great |
| After the Persian wars ended | Athens became the economic and cultural center of Greece |
| Slavery in Athens | was very common |
| The Greeks defeated the Persians at Marathon | after which a Greek messenger raced 25 miles to Athens to announce the victory |
| The creation of the Delian League | was an example of cooperation among Greek city-states |
| 1792 BC | Hammurabi becomes king of the Babylonian Empire |
| 1473 BC | Queen Hatshepsut reigns in Egypt |
| 1450 BC | Mycenaeans conqured the Minoans; control Aegean |
| 650 BC | Greeks colonize shores of the Mediterranean Sea and tyrants ruled |
| 490 BC | Darius invades Greece |
| 486 BC | Xerxes becomes King of Persia |
| 480 BC | Xerxes invades Greece |
| Greek | won in the Straits of Salamis |
| Greek | Leonidas |
| Greek | Citizen soldiers |
| Greek | Zeus |
| Greek | Marathon victory |
| Greek | Ephor |
| Persians | Zoroaster |
| Persians | Satrap |
| Persians | Cyrus the Great |
| Persians | Won at Thermopylae |
| Persians | Full time professional army |
| Persians | Royal Road |
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