Greece: Warring City States

The Ancient Spartan conquered its neighbors and forced them to become workers who were little better than slaves. This group were referred to as

• Helots

• Serfs

• Peasants

• Argonauts

After the Persian Wars, Athens convinced its allies to join an alliance called ______________________.

• the Delian League

• the Macedonian League

• the Peloponnesian League

• the Major League

The quarrel between which two city-states developed into a conflict called the Peloponnesian War?

• Athens and Thebes

• Macedonia and Athens

• Athens and Sparta

• Macedonia and Thebes

Who won the Peloponnesian War?

• Athens

• Sparta

• Thebes

• Pericles

What happened that weakened Athens during the First Peloponnesian War?

• Many of their ships were sunk in a huge storm

• They were attacked by the Persians

• There was a plague in the city that killed many people including their leader

• Much of the wall protecting the city collapsed due to poor construction

Who was Pericles?

• A great general and leader of Athens

• The king of Sparta

• A Greek philosopher who was against all war

• The patron god of the Spartans

_____________ controlled and dominated the Peloponnesian League

• Athens
• Sparta
• Ionia
• Troy

The most important consequence of the Peloponnesian War was that

• Athens emerged as the undisputed leader of Greece.
• the war left Greece exhausted and vulnerable to attack.
• Persia was able to take advantage of Greek divisions to complete its conquest.
• Sparta's victory propelled it to lasting domination of Greece.

One cause of the Peloponnesian War:

• Many Greeks outside of Athens resented Athenian domination.
• Pericles got sick.
• Sparta destroyed the Acropolis in Athens.
• Sparta was against oligarchy, while Athens was for it.