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Jeopardy 05
Ancient Greece
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History
10th Grade
04/11/2007

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Ancient seafaring people of Crete
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Minoans
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Primary occupation of the Minoans
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sea trade
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Ocean south of Greece that surrounds Crete
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Mediterranean
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Geographic features that separated Greek city-states
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mountains
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Geographic feature of Italy's northern border
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Alps
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Legendary ruler of Bronze Age Crete
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Minos
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People who replaced the Minoans as the chief power of the Aegean world
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Mycenans
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Ten-year conflict between the Myceneans and the people of Troy
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Trojan War
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Epic poem about the Trojan War
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Iliad
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People who conquered the Myceneans around 1000 B.C.E.
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Dorians
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Sea that separated Greece and Asia Minor
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Aegean
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Sea that formed Greece's western border
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Adriatic
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Most famous of Alexander's new cities, in Egypt
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Alexandria
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Economic activity made necessary by Greek geography
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trade
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Major city of ancient Crete
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Knossos
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Mountainous land north of Greece
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Macedonia
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Peninsula on which Greece is located
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Balkan Peninsula
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Southern portion of ancient Greece
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Peloponnesus
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Region of Greek city-states in Asia Minor and on Aegean islands
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Ionia
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Italy's central mountain range
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Apennnes
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Large island at the toe of Italy
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Sicily
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Geographic and political center of Greek life
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city-state
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Earliest form of city-state government
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monarchy
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Form of government developed in Athens
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democracy
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Lowest Athenian class
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slaves
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People of Athens who spent their lives secluded at home
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women
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Sole occupation of male Spartan citizens
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military service
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Greek word for the city-state
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polis
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Fortified hilltop at a city's center
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acropolis
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A city's open meeting area, usually the marketplace
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agora
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Form of government in Sparta
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aristocracy
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Set of principles and rules for governing; Athens had one
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constitution
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Spartan slaves
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helots
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Where male Spartan citizens lived from age 7 to age 30
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military barracks
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Fate of unhealthy or imperfect Spartan babies
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abandoned to die
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Fate of Athenian debtors, abolished by Solon
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sold into slavery
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What Athenian girls were taught
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household management
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The five governing officials of Sparta
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overseers
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One of the two ruling bodies in Sparta
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Assembly
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Body of Athenian citizens that passed laws
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Assembly
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Athenian body that proposed laws and handled daily affairs
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Council of Four Hundred
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Spartan form of money
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iron bars
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South-central, militaristic city-state
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Sparta
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Attican city-state that developed as a democracy
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Athens
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Wars with a powerful empire of Asia Minor in 490-479 B.C.E.
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Persian Wars
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Leader who sailed an army across the Aegean to Greece in 490 B.C.E.
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Darius
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Persian leader who sent his army back to Greece in 480 B.C.E.
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Xerxes
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Statesman who led Athens to its greatest heights
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Pericles
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Athenian leader who drew up a code of laws
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Draco
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Athenian leader whose name today means a wise lawmaker
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Solon
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Athenian leader who established nearly complete democracy
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Cleisthenes
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Battle in which the Greeks defeated the Persians in 490 B.C.E.
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Battle of Marathon
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Defensive alliance led by Athens
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Delian League
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Thirty-year war between Athens and Sparta
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Peloponnesian War
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Event in addition to war that destroyed Athens
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plague
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City-state that overthrew Spartan rule in 371 B.C.E.
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Thebes
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Greek rulers who seized power by force, often backed by the poor
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tyrants
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Mountain pass defended by Spartans in 480 B.C.E.
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Thermopylae
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Sea battle in which Athenians defeated Persians in 480 B.C.E.
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Battle of Salamis
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Final, decisive battle that ended the wars in 479 B.C.E.
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Battle of Plateau
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Athenian ruler who introduced land reform and was supported by the lower classes
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Pisistratus
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Athenian warships
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triremes
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Ruler of Macdeon who united the Greek city-states
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Phillip II
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Phillip's son and successor
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Alexander the Great
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Empire conquered by Alexander
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Persia
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Northern African country conquered by Alexander
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Egypt
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Culture spread by Alexander
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Greek culture
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Athenian orator who vigorously opposed Phillip
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Demosthenes
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Cause of Phillip's death
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assassination
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Alexander's Greek tutor
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Aristotle
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Easternmost extent of Alexander's empire
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Indus River
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Cause of Alexander's death
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fever
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Structure in Egypt's Alexandria; one of the Seven Wonder of the Ancient World
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Pharos
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Phillip's ambition in life
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unite Greek city-states or
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City-state where Phillip was held hostage as a youth
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Thebes
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Alexander's major influence on the world
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unification or
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Special infantry formation of the Greek and Macedonian armies
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phalanx
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Battle in which Phillip gained control of Greece
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Battle of Chaeronea
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Alexander's age when he came to power
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20
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Northern portion of Alexander's empire at its division
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Macedonia
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Southern portion of Alexander's empire at its division
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Egypt
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Eastern portion of Alexander's empire at its division
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Persia
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Alexandria's renowned center of learning
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museum
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