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Greek City-States II
I. Sparta
 only five to ten percent of the population were full
__________—rulers, soldiers, landowners
 Most of the population was farm laborers called
__________.
 Sparta developed into a strong _________ state to prevent
revolts by the helots.
 All Spartan citizens received severe physical training.
 An __________ of male citizens over the age of 30 ruled
Sparta.
 A __________ of 30 males over the age of 60, called
elders, was known as the Senate. The Senate could
override the actions of the Assembly.
II. Athens
 __________ encouraged trade and foreign contacts.
 Athenians took pride in the __________ and __________
life of their polis.
 Open discussion of current issues occurred on a daily
basis.
 Citizens had the obligation to serve in the Athenian army
or navy and to participate in government.
 __________ was limited. A little more than half of the
population of Athens was citizens. Women and slaves
could not be citizens. Foreign-born people could not
become citizens.
 Beginning about 600 B.C., Athens began to develop a
__________ form of government.
 First Draco, then Solon, and later Cleisthenes and
Pericles, introduced economic and political reforms.
 Under __________, Athens experienced a Golden Age in
which the City-state became a direct democracy,
education & the arts flourished, and the __________ was
built (a temple to the Goddess Athena)
III. Greek Wars
A)Persian War
 In 499 B.C., Athens gave aid to the Ionian Greeks
who revolted against Persian rule, marking the
beginning of the Persian Wars
1. __________
 the Persian Fleet was destroyed by the
Greek navy.
2. __________
 Athens pushed back a Persian invasion
into the Greek mainland
3. __________
 Marked the end of the Persian Wars in
479 BC
B) The Peloponnesian War
1. Athens
 Began a Golden Age and created the
__________ League uniting all the Greek
city-states except Sparta
 Athens became the center of Greek
commerce, wealth, & power
2. Sparta
 Grew jealous of Athenian power and began
a war with Athens in 431 BC
 The war ended in 404 BC with Sparta as
the __________
C) Results of the War
 Greece went through a __________
 No city-state could re-unite Greece
 Greece was conquered by the _______________
(Phillip II)