greek terms

Question 1

Minoan

Answer 1

political - the people of Crete that got wealthy from trading around the Mediterranean and eventually got invaded by the Myceneans

Question 2

Myceneans

Answer 2

political - the first “Greeks” who invaded and enslaved the Minoans and became civilized from their advancements (attacked once the Minoans were weak from a volcanic eruption)

Question 3

Dorians

Answer 3

political - barbarians who conquered the peninsula and brought in the Dark Age

Question 4

Polis, Acropolis, Agora

Answer 4

political - the polis is an independent city state that is in a rectangular grid shape, acropolis is the temple for the patron god or goddess that is upon the highest spot, agora is the marketplace surrounding it

Question 5

Hoplites & Phalanx

Answer 5

political - hoplites were the foot soldiers used for the mountainous geography and phalanx is the formation used by them, infiltrates from the center, 8x8, “wall of steel”

Question 6

Helots

Answer 6

political - human slaves that were viewed as property by the Spartans

Question 7

Council of Elders

Answer 7

political - the representative government in Sparta, required to be over 60 years old for the first 28 members and the other two were the Spartan kings

Question 8

Solon

Answer 8

political - the archon who convinced the rest to let him rewrite the constitution due to the aristocrats running it, completely reforms it

Question 9

Cleisthenes

Answer 9

political - man who got mad over the tyranny in the gov’t due to the reelections and got charged with treason. went to Sparta for help and got the army to come back with him and help him kill the tyrannists

Question 10

Council of 500

Answer 10

political - Cleisthenes divided Athens into 10 sections, “demos”