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What is a king
This is who originally ruled in Ancient Athens.
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What is a peninsula
This is the term that describes Greece, an area of land surrounded on three sides by water
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What is polis
This is the Greek word for city-state
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The winner of the war between Athens and Sparta
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What is Sparta
This city-state was a military society based upon security and protection.
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What is wood, olive oil, copper, pottery, gold, silver and jewels
Name 3 crops that were traded in Greece
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What is the agora
This is the marketplace where early Greeks traded goods and held political and religious assemblies,
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What is an alliance
An agreement to work together is called
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Who is Draco
This person created harsh laws in Athens, such as *loitering is punishable by death.
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What is a source of food and a way to trade with other communities
Name the two main things the Greeks used the Sea for
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What is the acropolis
This is the high hill that the Greeks built their city-states strong fortress on
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What is the Peloponnesian War
The name of the major war between Athens and Sparta that threatened to tear all of Greece apart
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Who is Cleisthenes
This person from Athens is known as the father of democracy.
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What is because the mountains and seas were difficult to cross
Explain why travel was difficult in early Greece
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What is the Minoans and the Mycenaeans
Name the 2 earliest cultures in Greece?
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What is the Delian League and the Peloponnesian League
The name of the major alliances, or leagues that formed after the Persian Wars ended
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Who is Lycurgus
This person created the Spartan social system between 900 and 600 BC.
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What is the Aegean Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, or the Ionian Sea
Name at least 2 bodies of water that surround Greece
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What is the Dark Age
During this time, there were no written records. All that we have learned about this period came from archaeological findings.
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What is Sicily
The island that Athens attacked after the truce between Athens and Sparta, who destroyed Athens navy and held the entire Athenian army prisoner
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