Greece

Question 1

Polis

Answer 1

didn’t like each other, fought constantly

Question 2

Limited Democracy

Answer 2

have to be full-blooded Athenian male to participate

Question 3

Herodotus

Answer 3

historian in Athens, hammers Persians in historical records

Question 4

Persian Wars

Answer 4

long wars, Marathon was first battle-Athenians defeated Persian army, man ran all the way into Athens to give news and then died,one of the most important battles in history, eventually Greeks win after last battle of Platea

Question 5

Athens

Answer 5

non militaristic, beginning on democracy here

Question 6

Sparta

Answer 6

militaristic, have helots-enslaved people to do all work, train to be superb militaristically,afraid to leave their land for fear of a helot uprising

Question 7

Peloponnesian War

Answer 7

civil war between Athens and Sparta, Persians help Spartans because they want to weaken Greece so they can swoop in and take over, Spartans win

Question 8

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

Answer 8

philosophers of the time

Question 9

Pericles

Answer 9

uses money from polises to rebuild Athens as a model city

Question 10

Golden Age of Athens

Answer 10

philosophers depicted in Rafael’s school of Athens painting, people able to question government, sign of tolerance

Question 11

Alexander the Great

Answer 11

tutored by Aristotle, takes over all of Greece and Persia, burns Persepholis to the ground when drunkenly partying, dies on way to India, land broken up into 3 empires

Question 12

Hellenistic Age

Answer 12

Happens after Alexander the Great’s death, things are made more Greek, use their architecture, model cities, Mesopotamians are being ruled by other people