ANCIENT GREECE EVENTS, PEOPLE, AND PLACES

A BODY OF WATER BY THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA THAT TOUCHES THE BORDERS OF GREECE AND ASIA MINOR. IT ALSO HAS MANY ISLANDS INCLUDING CRETE.

• ADRIATIC SEA

• IONIAN SEA

• AEGEAN SEA

• CARIBBEAN SEA

ALEXANDER THE GREAT CONQUERS PERSIAN EMPIRE

• C. 560 B.C.

• C. 499 B.C.

• C. 330 B.C.

• C. 650 B.C

A LARGE PENINSULA AT THE WESTERN EDGE OF ASIA, ALSO CALLED ASIA MINOR

• BALKAN

• ANATOLIA

• JUTLAN

• IBERIAN

A DEMOCRATIC GREEK POLIS WHICH ACCOMPLISHED MANY CULTURAL ACHIEVEMENTS, AND WHICH WERE CONSTANTLY AT WAR WITH SPARTA

• THEBES

• MARATHON

• CRETE

• ATHENS

A LARGE PENINSULA IN SOUTHERN EUROPE BOUNDED BY THE BLACK, AEGEAN AND ADRIATIC SEAS

• JUTLAND

• ANATOLIA

• BALKAN PENINSULA

• ITALIAN PENINSULA

AN ARISTOCRAT WHO CREATED A COUNCIL OF 500 AND HELPED FORM ATHENIAN DEMOCRACY

• SOLON

• ALEXANDER THE GREAT

• CLEISTHENES

• PERICLES

A GREEK ISLAND IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA, SOUTHEAST OF GREECE

• SICILY

• JAMAICA

• IRELAND

• CRETE

KING OF PERSIA AND FOUNDER OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE (CIRCA 600-529 B.C.)

• DARIUS I

• PETER THE GREAT

• CYRUS THE GREAT

• PERICLES

THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE DELIAN LEAGUE TILL 454 B.C.

• SPARTA

• DELOS

• SICILY

• ITALY

THE PERSIAN KING WHO DEFEATED THE REBELLIOUS IONIAN GREEKS AND VOWED TO DESTROY ATHENS IN REVENGE

• PETER THE GREAT

• IVAN THE TERRIBLE

• DARIUS 1

• KING DAVID