Greece Flashcards
on witch contient is Grece located?
Europe
Asystem of goverment where only a few people hold power whitch usually consist of members of the upper classes and those with the most wealth and propertey is called______
oligarchhy
becuse greese mountians island and penninsula separate the greek people from each other and and made communication difficult Greek people from each other and made communtion difficult greek civlition develope into indepentent _________
city-states
in _____ all citizen or members of the city states share the power of ruling
demorcracies
_____ ______ and ________were three greek phlosapheres whose works have inspired genertion of thinkers
socrates plato aratotal
Around the 1200 BCE the ______ foughht the war with the city of troy This war is belived to be the basis for the story of the trojan war in greek mythology
Mycenanense
the ___ won the battle of Marothon
greeks
300_____ died at the battle of Thermoplae
Spartan soldies
in approx 548 bce Cyrus(Cyrus the great)united most of what is today under his control and established himself as the ruler of
Persia
in 480 bce the greeks lured the Persian fleet into a narrow channel between the mainlands near Athens and the greek island of Salamis. The greeks won the battle of Salamis because of their
triremes(boat)
t/f In Athen women were not concidered citizens no rights
true
t/fHelots trained for war because men and boys were too busy tending fields
false
t/f Alexander the great was killed by a persian soldier
false
t/f After Alexander the great victories over the Persians. Alexander lead his forces further east to the western boarder of India and then returned to Banylon and began to establish a goverment that could rule a vast empire
true
t/f By 220 bce Romans began to gain control of greece. eventually all of greece was absorbed into Roman empire
true
