The Classical Western World:

Ancient Greek Civilization

Part I: Terms/Wars• Government by the nobility

• Aristocracy

Part I: Terms/Wars• Government by all of the citizens

• Direct Democracy

Part I: Terms/Wars• This war included the battle of

Thermopylae, or the 300

• Persian War

Part I: Terms/Wars• Government by one person,

usually a king or queen

• Monarchy

Part I: Terms/Wars• The Greek word for city-state

• Polis

Part I: Terms/Wars• This war led to the Golden Age of

Athens

• Persian War

Part I: Terms/Wars• Early militaristic Greek civilization

that was ruled by a warrior-king

• Mycenae

Part I: Terms/Wars• Government by a small group of

wealthy citizens

• Oligarchy

Part I: Terms/Wars• This war may have resulted from

an economic rivalry

• Trojan War

Part I: Terms/Wars• In this war, Athens and Sparta

fought on the same side

• Persian War

Part I: Terms/Wars• In this war, Athens and Sparta

were enemies

• Peloponnesian War

Part I: Terms/Wars• This war RESULTED in disunity

among the Greek city-states

• Persian War

Part I: Terms/Wars• The banishment of a public figure

who has threatened democracy

• Ostracism

Part II: Athens/Sparta/Both• The primary focus of education

was to train prospective soldiers

• Sparta

Part II: Athens/Sparta/Both• Women were treated with

respect, but had no political rights

• Sparta

Part II: Athens/Sparta/Both• Ruled by a democracy

• Athens

Part II: Athens/Sparta/Both• Metics (foreign aliens)

• Athens

Part II: Athens/Sparta/Both• Ruled by an oligarchy

• Sparta

Part II: Athens/Sparta/Both• Perioci (free men that did not

own land)

• Sparta

Part II: Athens/Sparta/Both• Women had no rights and were

to stay out of political affairs

• Athens

Part II: Athens/Sparta/Both• Boys entered school at the age of

7

• Both

Part II: Athens/Sparta/Both• Captured outsiders and used as

Helots

• Sparta

Part II: Athens/Sparta/Both• Citizens had to have been born

within the city-state

• Athens

Part II: Athens/Sparta/Both• Council of Elders

• Sparta

Part III: Values – Athens or Sparta?

• Conformity

• Sparta

Part III: Values – Athens or Sparta?

• Beauty

• Athens

Part III: Values – Athens or Sparta?

• Humor

• Athens

Part III: Values – Athens or Sparta?

• Modesty

• Sparta

Part III: Values – Athens or Sparta?

• Individuality

• Athens

Part III: Values – Athens or Sparta?

• Debate

• Athens

Part III: Values – Athens or Sparta?

• Endurance

• Sparta

Part IV: True or False?• The acropolis was the public

meeting place of the city-state

• True

Part IV: True or False?• The Peloponnesian League

formed before the Delian League

• False

Part IV: True or False?• Religion was a major source of

conflict between the city-states

• False

Part IV: True or False?• All of the Greek city-states were

democratically governed

• False

Part IV: True or False?• The Delian League was an

alliance of Greek city-states

• True

Part IV: True or False?• After the Persian War, Athens

entered a Golden Age

• True

Part V: Unity or Disunity?• All of the Greeks spoke the same

language

• Unity

Part V: Unity or Disunity?• Festivals such as the Olympics

• Unity

Part V: Unity or Disunity?• The Greeks Believed they were all

descendants of Helen

• Unity

Part V: Unity or Disunity?• The existence of slavery

• Disunity

Part V: Unity or Disunity?• Geographic features

• Disunity

Part V: Unity or Disunity?• Considered themselves citizens of

a polis before citizens of Greece

• Disunity

Part V: Unity or Disunity?• Fear of the Persians

• Unity

Part VI: Alexander the Great• Alexander the Great was from

this region located just north of Greece

• Macedonia

Part VI: Alexander the Great• Hellenistic culture, as established

by Alexander, included these four cultures

• Greek, Persian, Egyptian, and Indian