Ancient Greece Flashcards
it refers to both the Ancient Greek mainland and the surrounding islands in the Aegean Sea
Aegean World
City-state
Polis
Central Market/meeting place
Angora
Used for protection and was a center for religion and governorment.
Acropolis
an ancient festival help every fourth year and made up of contests of sports music and literature with the victors 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 488 B.C
Persian war
Each citizen votes directly on all laws. (The first democracy invented by the Athenians).
Direct Democracy
identify and explain the government of ancient Greece in order to compare and contrast it to the U.S. government.
Representative Democracy
was a war fought in ancient Greece between Athens and Sparta
The Peloponnesian War