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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| polis | city-state |
| acropolis | a polis (city-state) was bulit around a high area |
| agora | marketplace |
| Give a list of Greek Gods & Goddess | Zeus, Ares, Hera, Hades |
| What is Sparta? | It is a Greek city-state.It was like a war state, the boys there at the age of 7 entered the military. |
| What is Athens? | A Greek city-state. The people there are more focused on the pretty things of life. They are not really war orented. |
| Democracy | a form of government run by the people |
| Tyrant | a strongman who seized power by force and claimed to rule for the good of the power |
| Direct Democracy | in which all people vote directly on an issue |
| Whofought in the Persian War? | The war was fought by the Spartans and surrounding city-states against the Persians. |
| Why did Sparta only have 300 soldiers? | They only had 300 because of the religous festvial was going on, and the 300 was the war kings' personal body guards. |
| Who fought in the Peloponnesian War? Why? | The Delian League( Sparta) and the Peloponnesian League( Athens) declared war on eachother because the two city-states were intimadated by eachother and they wanted to see who was the best. |
| What was the result of this battle? | Macedonia invaded and that was the start of legacy of "Alexander the Great". |
| Who is "Alexander the Great"? | He became the King of Macedonia after his father was assissnated by his own body guard. He conquered Egypt,The Persian Empire, and attemped to took over India. |
| Hellenistic | Greeklike |
| The name of Alexanders' horse | Bucephalus |
| What is the phalanx? | Phalanx is a tight rectangle formation in which soldiers held long spears out ahead of a wall of shields. |
| Helots | State slaves |
| Hoplites | Foot soldiers |
| Type of government in Sparta | Democracy |
| 300 | the number of Spartan soldiers that fought in Persian War |
| The age the boys had to enter the militray in Sparta | Seven |
| the greek citizen soldiers that usually used a large round shield and a spear | hoplites |
| The age when men retire from the military | thirty |
| The war fought against Athens | Peloponneisan |