$20 $30 $40 $50 $10 $30 $40 $50 $10 $20 $30 $40 $50 $10 $20 $30 $40 $50 $10 $20 $30 $40 $50 $10 Early Civilizations Sparta Athens Vocabulary Grab Bag $20

$10.00 The Mycenaeans learned to use the sun and stars to help them with navigation from this early civilization

The Minoans

$20.00 The Minoans made their living from ___.

trading

$30.00 The time period when the Greeks forgot how to read and write is called the ___.

Dark Ages

$40.00 Instead of money, Myceanaeans paid taxes in ___.

Things like wheat, livestock and honey

$50.00 People in early Greece made money from these main occupations.

- Trading - Fishing - Farming & caring for animals

Spartan males left their homes at age ___ and returned at age ___. $10.00

Left at age 7 and returned at age 30

$20.00 When the Spartans population grew and they needed more room for the people they would ___.

Conquer more lands

$30.00 Who was trained in running, wrestling and javelin throwing?

Spartan women

$40.00 Sparta had this type of government

oligarchy

$50.00 What do you call the people who enforced laws and collected taxes in Sparta?

ephors

What was the name of the group that was formed to protect the Greeks from more attacks by the Persians $10.00

The Delian League

$20.00 The name of the conflicts between Athens and the other city-states, led gby Sparta

The Peloponnesian War

$30.00 What do you call the conflict between the Greek city- states and Persia?

The Persian War

$40.00 What were the requirements to be a citizen in early Athens?

You had to be free, native born and own land

$50.00 Athens had this type of government where all of the people voted on important government matters.

A direct democracy

$10.00 What do you call the form of government where only a few people are in charge?

An oligarchy

$20.00 What do you call an open area in Greece that was used as a meeting place and a market?

An agora

$30.00 What do you call someone who rules with total authority?

A tyrant

$40.00 What do you call a body of land with water on three sides?

A peninsula

$50.00 This was the first civilization to arise in ancient Greece.

The Minoan

$10.00 What do you call a body of water with land on both sides?

A strait

What do you call people who ponder questions about life? $20.00

philosophers

These people, sometimes called the “defenders of the kingdom” were in charge of the smaller parts of Persia. $30.00

Satraps

What vocabulary term is used to describe the Greek city-states that functioned like small, independent countries? $40.00

polis

This religion was practiced in ancient Greece $50.00

Zoroastrianism

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