Background Of Sparta

Question 1

3000-1600BC

Answer 1

Archaic Greece

Question 2

1600-1200BC

Answer 2

Mycenaean Greece

Question 3

1200-800BC

Answer 3

Dark Ages

Question 4

800-600BC

Answer 4

Greek Renaissance

Question 5

600-323BC

Answer 5

Classical/Hellenic Greece

Question 6

323-31BC

Answer 6

Hellenistic Greece

Question 7

First Greek society

Answer 7

Mineans, island of Crete, named after king of Crete, Minos, population 250,000, largest city state, most powerful.

Question 8

How was Greece settled?

Answer 8

Valleys, mountains, water, encouraged to settle independent communities, city states.

Question 9

When were the city states united?

Answer 9

Trojan War.

Question 10

1300BC

Answer 10

Mycenae attacked my Turkey (Asia Minor), Dorian invasion.

Question 11

Greece Dark Ages

Answer 11

Culture declined, structures and public buildings halted, some skills survived, language preserved.

Question 12

Greek Renaissance

Answer 12

Optimism and adventure flourished, wrote poems, Olympic Games (776BC).

Question 13

Classical Greece

Answer 13

Herodotus and Thucydides, democracy, Persian War and Peloponnesian War, importance of individualism.

Question 14

Athenian society

Answer 14

Never united Greece, culture never changed, trade brought ideas, polis was wealthy.

Question 15

Greek Polis

Answer 15

Self governing autonomous society.

Question 16

Define acropolis

Answer 16

Stronghold of community life.

Question 17

Structure of Spartan population

Answer 17

Citizens (adult males) = 43,000
Women and children = 129,000
Metils (foreigners) = 28,000
Slaves (helots) = 115,000

Question 18

Citizenship restrictions

Answer 18

Adult males
Athens = 18 year old men
Sparta = 30 year old men

Question 19

Forms of government

Answer 19

Monarchy = kings
Aristocracy = nobles
Timocracy = political power to wealth