Chapter 5 Review

The Mycenaeans were peaceful farmers who used the sea to trade goods.

A __________ was a slave who taught boys manners & went with them to school.

Athenians stressed the importance of a sound mind & healthy body,

Greeks looked to religion to explain 3 things. Name one of them:

________ were brutal dictators who ruled the people with absolute power.

Spartan government was divided into the following: Council of Elders, Assembly, and __________.

Greece was united after the Persian Wars; the first time the city-states ever united.

The first Greek civilizations were the _________ and the ____________.

The Athenians & Spartans united to defeat a much larger enemy during the ____________.

The two important epics from the Homeric Age were ________ and __________.

In Athens, women were considered _____________.

A(n) ______________ began as a fort built on top of a hill but eventually became a city-state.

Lower class soldiers, known as _______, formed their own militias within the city-states.

The leaders of the noble class were known as aristocrats.

The Age of Pericles ended when Sparta attacked Athens, starting years of battle known as _____.

Citizens who were divided into 10 tribes with 50 men each to act as representatives.

Athens formed the first system of ________, meaning that people could have a say in government.

There were 3 social groups in Sparta. Name 2 of them:

Greeks defeated the Persians by combat on land.

The _______________consisted of 140 city-states which kept its money on the island of Delos.

The Olympic Games were created in 776 BC in an attempt to ___________________.

Athenians valued education over military training.

During the Pelopennesian Wars, what happened in Athens that helped cause their defeat?

The Persians avoided Athens and marched around it on their way to the sea.

___________ were places where the gods & goddesses would speak to people through priests.

The 'Trojan Horse' allowed the Mycenaeans to trick & defeat the Spartans.

Sparta was formed on a hill with a fortified wall for protection.

The ________________ of Greece had much to do with the way they lived.

A different name for a city-state is a(n) ________.

Hoplite formations defeated the aristocrat armies and swung power back to lower-class citizens.