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Chapter 7: The Ancient Greeks
Study Guide
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Describe the significant accomplishment(s) by the following leaders. Also, say which city-state or empire they controlled.
(Athens, Sparta, or Persia)
1. Pericles: (Athens) made Athens more democratic
2. Cyrus: (Persia) built a strong army and expanded the empire
3. Darius: (Persia) invaded Greece at Marathon
4. Leonidas: (Sparta) led 7,000 soldiers at Thermopylae
5. Xerxes: (Persia) invaded Greece and led his army at the Battle of Salamis
6. Peisistratus: (Athens) Tyrant that was popular because he gave land to landless farmers
7. Why were colonies first established by Greece around 700 BC?
To supply food for the mainland.
8. Who did the Greeks based their alphabet off of? (pg 178)
The Phoenicians
9. What was the Sparta economy based on?
The military & agriculture. They were isolated and did not trade.
10. Who won the Persian Wars? Greece or Persia?
GREECE!
11. What was the important economic activity the Minoans did? (pg 176)
TRADE!
12. What did the Mycenaeans learn from the Minoans? (pg 177)
Navigation by the sun and the stars
13. What happened during the Dark Age in Greece beginning around 1100 BC?
Trade and farming failed, and many stopped reading and writing
14. The Athenian assembly appointed ten generals that did what?
Carried out the assembly’s laws they wrote.
15. How did Sparta finally defeat Athens at the end of the Peloponnesian War?
By destroying their naval fleet and blockading the city