greece Flashcards
it refers to both the ancient Greek mainland and the surrounding islands in Aegean sea.
Aegean world
city state
polis
central market/meeting place
agora
used for protection and was a center for religion and government
acropolis
an ancient festival held every forth year and made up of contests of sports, music, and literature with the victors prize a crown of wild olives
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 reprsentatives who then vote on the laws.
representative democracy
was a war fought in ancient Greece between Athens and Sparta
the penloponnesian war