Chapter 7: The Ancient Greeks

Persian king who invaded Greece and led him army at the Battle of Salamis

• Pericles

• Cyrus

• Xerxes

• tyrant

leader who made Athens more democratic

• Pericles

• Cyrus

• Xerxes

• helot

king who built a strong Persian army and expanded the Persian Empire.

• Pericles

• Cyrus

• Xerxes

• oligarchy

the Spartan name for an enslaved worker

• democracy

• helot

• oligarchy

• tyrant

a person who takes power by force and rules with total authority.

• tyrant

• democracy

• oligarchy

• helot

a system of government in which a few people hold power

• oligarchy

• democracy

• monarchy

• dictatorship

a system of government in which all citizens share in running the government.

• democracy

• oligarchy

• dictatorship

• monarchy

Which of these did the Mycenaeans learn from the Minoans?

• navigating by the sun and stars

• advances in philosophy and the arts

• making iron tools

• pottery making

A 300-year period of time in Greece beginning around 1100 B.C. is called the Dark Age because______________________.

• Persians conquered Greece and ruled with absolute power

• trade and farming failed, and many stopped keeping records and writing

• there were natural disasters such as floods, droughts, plagues, and famines

• the Greek city-states fought one another so much that the economy failed completely

Sparta finally was able to defeat Athens at the end of the Peloponnesian War________________.

• by burning the city

• because they killed the leaders in the Athenian army

• when they received assistance from Macedonia

• by destroying their naval fleet and blockading the city