Ancient Greece Flashcards
It refers to both the Ancient Greek mainland and the surrounding islands in the Aegean sea.
Aegean World
City-states
Polis
central market/meeting place
Agora
used for protection and was a center for religion and government
Acropolis
An ancient festival held every fourth year and made up of contests of sport, music and literature with the victor’s prize a crown of wild olive.
Olympics
Each citizen votes directly on all laws. (The first democracy invented by the Athenians).
Direct democracy
Was a war fought in Ancient Greece between Athens and Sparta.
The Peloponnesian war
He was an Athenian scholar, teacher and a philosopher who encouraged questioning of traditional values, art, gov., etc.
Socrates
Socrates’ student
plato
Emperor who had one of the largest empires in the ancient world; known for spreading Greek culture across continents
Alexander the Great