Classical Civilizations-Ancient Greek Unit Test

Helots

Enslaved workers captured by the Spartans

Myth

Traditional story about Gods and goddesses

Minoans

First civilization to arise in Greece

Legacy

What a person leaves behind when they die

Shrine

Special site where the Gods were housed

Hippocrates

Believed sickness had natrual causes

Cleisthenes

Built a democracy in Athens

Hellenistic Era

A time when greek Culture spread throughout the non-greek world

Alexander the Great

Built one of the greatest cities of the ancient world and named it after himself

Tyrant

Harsh, oppressive ruler

Democracy

Rule by people, in which citizens are allowed to play a role in the government is called a democracy

Agora

People would meet in and debate in an

Agora

Spartans

Which people used military force to prevent people they conquered from rebelling.

Pericles

Built temples to show the growing power in Athens

Earthquakes

One factor that started the collapse of the Mycenaean civilization

Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey

Homer

Spartan woman were trained in

Running, wrestling, and javelin throwing

Peninsula

A body of land with water on 3 sides

Chaeronea

The battle Phillip 2 beat the Greeks in

Alexander the great

Freed the greek cities in Asia minor from Persian rule