| Vocabulary Part 1 | Vocabulary Part 2 | Important Peeps Part 1 | Important Peeps Part 2 plus two | All Things Sparta |
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What is a helot?
an enslaved person in ancient Sparta
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What is a tyrant?
an absolute ruler unrestrained by law, a harsh ruler
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Who was Pericles?
leader of Athens, made it more powerful and democratic
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Who was Herodotus?
wrote "History of Persian Wars", was Greek Historian
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What are 20 and 30?
the age Spartan men were when they joined the military and the age they were when they were allowed to live at home.
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What is an Ephor?
a high ranking government official in Sparta
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What is an agora?
a gathering place, a marketplace in ancient Greece
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Who was Cyrus the Great
built strong Persian army, treaded conquered people fairly
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Who was Zoroaster?
religious teacher
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What are the rights to travel and own property, and the sports of running, wrestling, and the javelin?
The rights that Spartan women had and the sports she was trained in
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What is a colony?
a group of people living in a new territory who have ties to their homelands
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What is a peninsula?
a piece of land nearly surrounded by water
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Who was Darius I?
reorganized Persia's government to make it more efficient
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Who was Aspasia?
very popular, educated women, encouraged women to be involved in government and demand their rights.
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What is going to a military camp to live at age 7 to learn how to read, write and fight?
a boy's life in Sparta
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What is a polis?
a Greek city-state
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What is a phalanx?
a group of armed foot soldiers in ancient Greece arranged close together in rows
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Who was Leonidas?
Spartan king, led and supplied 7000 soldiers at Thermopoly (not sure this is right)
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What is school (not sure this is right)?
What was a boy's life like in Athens?
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What is how Sparta was finally able to defeat Athens in the Peloponnesian War?
borrowed money to build a navy and blocked Athens supplies
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What is democracy?
a government by the people
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Who did the Greeks consider a citizen?
a free native-born man who owned land
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Who was Xerxes?
invaded Greece with 2000,000 troops, Battle of Salamis
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What are a tsunami from undersea earthquakes and a Mycenean invasion and conquering?
two theories that led to the fall of the Minoans
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What is why Spartan leaders favored a strict military society?
created obedient, loyal citizens
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