Ancient Greece

the highest point in Athens where temples were built for the gods and goddesses.

• helot

• agora

• acropolis

• Parthenon

Early Greeks who lived on the Mediterranean island of Crete

• Thermopolaye

• Minoans

• Zues

• Plato

captured people enslaved by the Spartans.

• Athenians

• Menoans

• helot

• agora

a city and its surrounding lands functioning as an independent country.

• acropolis

• agora

• city-state

• democracy

poet of the Iliad and the Odyssey, stories of the heroes of the Trojan war.

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Homer

• Socrates

the birthplace of democracy; Athenians valued art, music and education.

• Sparta

• Athens

• acropolis

• Oligarchy

city-state strictly ruled by military force

• Sparta

• Athens

• monarchy

• agora

Athenian messenger ran 26 miles back to Athens to report the victory over the Persians at the Battle of Marathon and died from exhaustion

• Battle of Marathon

• Peloponnesian War

• Battle of Thermopylae

• Socratic Method

a war between Sparta and Athens that lasted for 27 years. At the beginning of this war 1/4 of Athens died of a plague while they were living within the city walls.

• Monarchy

• Battle of Thermopylae

• Battle of Marathon

• Peloponnesian War

King of Macedonia, conquered Greece and Persia. He builds and names many cities after himself. He also spreads Hellenistic (Greek) culture all the way to India.

• Socrates

• Homer

• Aristotle

• Alexander the Great