Ancient Greece L1-2

A group of soldiers who fought in a unified formation is called

• bard

• tyrant

• phalanx

Another word for a Greek city-state is

• polis

• colony

• ephor

Land surrounded by water on three sides is called

• island

• peninsula

• agora

Examples of Greek city-states are

• Ur and Uruk

• Knossos and Thebes

• Athens, Troy and Sparta

Knossos was discovered on the island of Crete.

• True

• False

Minoans were the first Greeks to speak the language.

• True

• False

Cleisthenes formed a lottery system for Athenian citizens to participate in government.

• False

• True

An enslaved person in Sparta was called a

• Joe

• ephor

• helot

Spartan males entered the regular army at the age of

• 20

• 7

• 30

Sparta became a military city-state because their slaves revolted.

• True

• False