Ancient Greece Vocabulary

A democratic Greek polis who accomplished many cultural achievements, and who were constantly at war with Sparta.

• Athens

• Sparta

• Thebes

• Corinth

(430-347 BCE) Was a disciple of Socrates whose cornerstone of thought was his theory of Forms, in which there was another world of perfection.

• Socrates

• Alexander the Great

• Plato

• Xerxes

King of Macedonia who conquered Greece, Egypt, and Persia

• Darius

• Alexander the Great

• Socrates

• Plato

A series of wars between the Greeks (mainly Athens) and the Persians in which the Greeks were usually victorious.

• Peloponnesian Wars

• Persian Wars

A Greek island in the Mediterranean Sea, southeast of Greece

• Crete

• Sicily

• Persia

• Sparta

A Greek Philosopher, taught Alexander the Great, started a famous school, studied with Plato

• Plato

• Socrates

• Aristotle

• Darius I

A piece of land that is surrounded by water on three sides.

• Peninsula

• City-State

• Mythology

• Crete

Greek culture spread across western Asia and northeastern Africa after the conquests of Alexander the Great. The period ended with the fall of the last major Hellenistic kingdom to Rome, but Greek cultural influence persisted until the spread of Islam.

• Peloponnesian Wars

• Persian Wars

• Hellenistic Age

• Golden Age

A powerful Greek miliary polis that was often at war with Athens. Used slaves known as helots to provide agricultural labor.

• Athens

• Thebes

• Persia

• Sparta

an ancient Greek city in Boeotia destroyed by Alexander the Great in 336 BC

• SParta

• Athens

• Thebes

• Persia