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Ancient Greece Test Study Guide
Minoans
Location?
Capital city?
Position of women?
Mycenaeans
Location?
More warlike than Minoans
Trojan War – Who fought? Where are they located?
Dark Age of Greece
Controlled by who?
Classical Greece
Homer – created 2 Epic Poems
Iliad =
Odyssey =
Greek Mythology
Reasons for? ; Interaction with humans?
Qualities and characteristics?
Where did they live?
Main deities
Apollo
Athena
Hera
Zeus
Artemis
Aphrodite
Geography
Description of?
Main crops?
Location of Athens, Sparta, Troy, and Crete
Types of governments
Monarchy
Aristocracy
Oligarchy
Tyranny
Democracy
Citizenship?
Terms/things to Know
Hellenic
Polis
Agora
Acropolis
Parthenon
Four Bonds that Unite the Greeks?
Religion
Language and Literature
Olympics
Fear of Persians
Athens vs. Sparta
Athens
Type of Government?
Education?
Role of women?
Sparta
Type of government?
Education?
Role of women?
Persian Wars
Key Events
Ionian Revolt – Persian Wars begin with this event.
Marathon – Only battle of 1st Persian War; Persians defeated on beach of Marathon.
Thermopylae –2nd Persian War; 300 Spartans hold off Persian army; eventually all Spartans are killed.
Salamis – Sea battle; Greeks attack and destroy Persian fleet in narrow strait.
Plataea – Final battle of Persian Wars; Greeks, led by Spartans, destroy Persian army.
Key People
Darius – led Persians in 1st Persian War
Phidippides – Messenger/runner; delivered news of victory at Athens then died
Xerxes – Led Persians in 2nd Persian War
Leonidas – famous Spartan king that died fighting at Thermopylae.
Results of Persian Wars
- Athens and Sparta unite to fight Persians
- Greeks retain control of Aegean Sea
- Athens leads Greece into Golden Age
- Athens forms Delian League; alliance of city-states