2nd Cemester Study Guide Chapter 7

Question 1

Satrapies

Answer 1

-the 20 Persian provinces

Question 2

Philosophers

Answer 2

-thinkers who ponder questions about life

Question 3

Ephors

Answer 3

– Consisted of five people chosen each year to enforce the laws and manage tax collection

Question 4

Oligarchy

Answer 4

– Only a few people hold the power

Question 5

Marathon

Answer 5

– A plane only a short distance from Athens
-Where a battle took place and Athens won
– After the battle Athenians sent in messenger home with the news the one who raised nearly 25 miles from marathon to Athens he collapsed from exhaustion in with his last breath victory that he died

Question 6

Pericles

Answer 6

– The leading figure in Athenian politics

– Leaded for more than 30 years

Question 7

Dorians

Answer 7

– A Greek speaking people who lived in Greece’s northern mountains
– They begin to move south and settle in the Peloponnesus
– They brought iron weapons giving Greece more advanced technology

Question 8

Spartans

Answer 8

– Focused on military skills to control the people they conquered

Question 9

Polis

Answer 9

– An early Greek city state made up of a city in the surrounding countryside
– runlike an independent country

Question 10

Agora

Answer 10

– An open area in the Greek city states that serve as both a market and a meeting place