Solon's epic poem the Iliad tells the story of the Trojan War.

The main effect of the Peloponnesian War was that the Greek city-states began losing the ability to govern themselves.

Greece is located on a flat fertile plain ideal for farming and transportation of goods.

A mercenary is a singing storyteller who passed down history through oral tradition.

Citizens of a polis would have met in a public square called the agora to discuss issues of the day.

A government in which one man seizes power and rules alone is called an oligarchy.

The Mycenaeans provided Sparta with financial support to build a naval fleet during the Peloponnesian War.

The government of Athens was very similar to our modern government in the United States of America.

When Greek city-states coud no longer grow enough food to feed their growing population, they established new colonies for farming.

The Parthenon was a temple built for Zeus on Mount Olympus.

Boys in Sparta were taken to live in military barraks at age 7 and trained as soldiers until age 20.

The people of Ionia did not like being ruled by a king and thought the non-Greek speaking Persians were barbarians.

Sparta believed their military was so powerful that they did not need walls around their city.

Spartans preferred lotteries over voting because they thought voting favored the rich.

Pericles was a ruler of Athens who helped transform Athens into an empire.

Pericles made other city-states use Athens' coins for currency instaed of their own.

Pericles' policies made it so all criminal court cases of Athens' allied city-states must be tried in Athens.

During the battle of Salamis, 300 Spartan soldiers held off Persian invaders which allowed Athens' army to win the battle.

Sparta was a Greek city-state ruled by two kings.

Polis means democracy.

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