Ancient Greece
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- Peninsula
- land surrounded by water on three sides
- Two Kings
- Sparta's rulers who ruled until they died or forced out
- Spartan life
- simple life - focus on war; slavery freed young men
- 25,000
- Free population of Sparta
- silver coins called drachmas
- Athens form of money
- Zeus
- Cheif god of Athens and Sparta
- Athenian life
- creative wonderland; good education, several kinds of arts or sciences.
- Crete
- Largest Greek island
- silver, olives, olive oil, wine, pottery
- Major exports of Athens
- oligarchy
- Sparta form of government
- 30
- Age when men in Sparta become citizens
- Knossos
- The first major Greek civilization began on the island of the Crete. What is the name of Crete's main city?
- Assembly
- Sparta and Athens had this whose members were elected by the people
- Attica
- One peninsula that forms mainland Greece
- Athens
- Birthplace of democracy
- democracy
- Athens form of government
- 75,000
- Population of Slaves in Athens
- Archons
- rulers in ancient Athens who served one-year terms
- Warriors
- Young Spartan boys were trained to be this
- 250,000
- Population of Slaves in Sparta
- heavy iron bars called obols
- Sparta form of money
- slaves, timber, corn, iron, tin
- Major imports of Athens
- 18
- Age when men in Athens become citizens
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey
- Best known literary works
- 45,000
- Free population of Athens
- Aegean Sea
- Sea that connected the Greek islands with mainland Greece
- Peloponnesus
- One peninsula that forms mainland Greece