Ancient Greece Flashcards
It refers to both the Ancient Greek mainland and the surrounding islands in the Aegean Sea.
Aegean World
Polis
Citystate
Agora
central market/meeting place
Acropolis
used for protection and was a center for religion and government
an ancient festival held every fourth year and made up of contests of sports, music, and literature with the victor’s prize a crown of wild olive.
olympics
A series of battles fought between the Greek City States and the Persian empire starting in 499 B.C. ending around 448 B.C.
Persian war
Each citizen votes directly on all laws. (The first democracy invented by the Athenians).
Direct democracy
Citizens vote for representatives who then vote on the laws.
Representative Democracy
The peloponnesian
was a war fought in ANcient Greece between Athens and Sparta
Define: Greece Unit 7
Socrates-: He was an Athenian scholar, teacher and a philosopher who encouraged questioning of traditional values, art, gov., etc.
plato - Socrates’ student
Alexander the Great - Emperor who had one of the largest empires in the ancient world; known for spreading Greek culture across continents
Socrates
