What is the name for a person who has rights and responsibilities in his or her country or community?
citizen
What is the name of a government with a single ruler?
Monarchy
What is the name of the type of government that is ruled by a small group of the richest and most powerful citizens?
Oligarchy
What sea separated Greece and the Asian city-states?
Aegean Sea
What are the two most famous Greek City-states?
Sparta and Athens
What is the name for Spartan farm workers who could not leave the land where they worked and had to pay half of their crops to their Spartan conquerors as taxes?
Helots
Spartan boys and girls, at about age 7, began training to...
Defend their city
Spartan girls could not be soldiers, but they trained to be...
Strong mothers of strong children
Athenian girls stayed at home and performed household tasks. They learned to...
Weave cloth form sheep's wool
In a ___________________ every citizen is allowed to vote on government issues.
Democracy
The ancient Greeks honored many gods and goddesses. This is known as ...
polytheism
Most of the Greek gods and goddesses were believed to have lived on...
Mount Olympus
Who one of the most famous ancient Greek poets? ( He wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.)
Homer
What is the name for a period of wealth and glory in Greece?
The Golden Age
The ruins of the _______________ are still in Greece today. This was a marble temple to Athena.
Parthenon
Who was the leader of Athens around the year 450 B. C. who made sure that all citizens could take part in government? He said that a man who takes no interest in the state is not harmless, but useless.
Pericles
