Daily Life in Athens
Terms
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- blockade
- an action taken to isolate the enemy and cut off its supplies
- Helots
- slaves owned by the city-state of Sparta
- Athens
- a city state in ancient Greece and the capital of modern day Greece
- Peloponnesian War
- When Sparta and its allies fought against Athens and its allies
- Plague
- widespread disease
- Sparta
- a city-state in ancient Greece
- Slavery
- the condition of beingt owned by someone else
- Vendors
- sellers of goods
- Hellenistic
- describes Greek history and culture after the death of Alexander the Great
- assassinated
- murdered for political reasons
- Battle at Marathon
- this was between the Persians and the Athenians, won by Athens
- Alexander the Great
- the Macedonian king who conquered Persia, Egypt, and invaded India
- Agora
- public markets and meetings
- barbarians
- wild, uncivilized people