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| 10508403463 | Minoan Civilization: | A civilization in an island on the northern coast of the eastern Mediterranean sea | 0 | |
| 10508406593 | Knossos | City on Crete built by Minoans, was the wealthiest city in Aegean for a while | 1 | |
| 10508409473 | Mycenean Civilization | On mainland of Greece, contained artifacts revealing Minoan cultural influences | 2 | |
| 10508411915 | Poleis | City states | 3 | |
| 10508411916 | Monarchy | A king ruled the state | 4 | |
| 10508413339 | Oligarchy | A few wealthy landowners and merchants ruled | 5 | |
| 10508414431 | Aristocracy | Nobles Ruled | 6 | |
| 10508415583 | Athens | One of the most powerful poles, remembered for its political and intellectual achievements | 7 | |
| 10508417400 | Sparta | One of the most powerful poleis, organized around producing a powerful military | 8 | |
| 10508419782 | Solon: | a reform-minded Aristocrat who lived in the sixth century BC, became known as a wise ruler who improved life in Athens | 9 | |
| 10508422233 | Democracy: | all citizens could participate, Athens turned to democracy (representative and direct) | 10 | |
| 10508424672 | Representative Democracy | Citizens elect leaders to represent them and give those leaders powers to make laws & govern | 11 | |
| 10508427892 | Pericles | Ruled in Athens during the Golden age, a temple was rebuilt and he made reforms to government | 12 | |
| 10508429579 | Iliad: | A poem, composed by the Greek poet Homer in the 9th bc | 13 | |
| 10508431463 | Odyssey: | A poem, imposed by the Greek poet Homer in the 9th century BC | 14 | |
| 10508433423 | Socrates | Came up with the Socratic Method, was put to death by the Athenian Government for question the state religion | 15 | |
| 10508436027 | Plato: | A student of socrates, kept ideas of socrates and passed them on | 16 | |
| 10508438032 | Aristotle | One of Plato's students, famous Athenian philosopher. Strong ideas about ethics | 17 | |
| 10508440550 | Syncretic | Combining ideas from different sources | 18 | |
| 10508441750 | Euripides | Greek playwright who wrote tragedies | 19 | |
| 10508443996 | Sophocles: | A greek playwright | 20 | |
| 10508445595 | Aeschylus: | A greek playwright who wrote tragedies | 21 | |
| 10508445596 | Greek colonies | Eigth century BC, Greek city states began establishing colonies around the Mediterranean | 22 | |
| 10508449656 | Persian empire | 559 BC, Cyrus the Great ruled Persia and conquered from West of Turkey to the borders of India | 23 | |
| 10508453751 | Cyrus the Great | Ruled from 559 to 529 BC, him and his son started the First Persian Empire. He founded the Persian empire | 24 | |
| 10508461922 | Darius 1 | Followed Cyrus the Great, ruled 522 to 486 BC, Persia divided lands into provinces so that the King's policies could be administered all throughout the empire. He took it to the next level and turned it into a true empire | 25 | |
| 10508469160 | Satrap | Rulers of the provinces who were responsible to the emperor, not to the local leaders | 26 | |
| 10508474263 | The Eyes and Ears of the King | Inspectors who traveled to each province and reported to the King on the behavior of the Satraps | 27 | |
| 10508536948 | Persepolis | Capital city of Persia, celebrated with impressive. royal palace and celebrating artistic traditions of several groups within the empire | 28 | |
| 10508539913 | The Royal Road: | Most famous of the network of roads built to encourage trade in the Persian empire | 29 | |
| 10508543246 | Caravanserai: | Combination of inns and markets for people traveling the Royal Road by camel caravan | 30 | |
| 10508547322 | Xerxes: | Built a Gate of all nations to show he was honoring all subjects (he honored cultural and religious diversity) | 31 | |
| 10508551125 | Helenistic | Combination of Greek and Persian ideas | 32 | |
| 10508551126 | Zarathustra | 660-583 B.C, Persian prophet who began to teach Zoroastrianism | 33 | |
| 10508553806 | Zoroastrianism | Based on the belief in only one god, Ahura Mazda, or the "wise lord" | 34 | |
| 10508554869 | Magi | Priests who passed Zanathustra's teachings orally from generation to generation | 35 | |
| 10508557002 | Avestas; | Collection of written texts based on Zarathustra's beliefs, spreading the religion | 36 | |
| 10508559967 | Qanat | underground canals used to reduce the evaporation of the water as it traveled to the fields | 37 | |
| 10508561829 | Persian Wars | Conquered Greek areas rebelled in campaigns known as the Persian wars | 38 | |
| 10508564535 | Delian league | Formed by Athenians and their allies after Persians captured and burned Athens | 39 | |
| 10508567713 | Peloponnesian War | Sparta revolted against Athens because Athens expected them to pay taxes after the war, 431 to 404 BC | 40 | |
| 10508572660 | Phillip II | Are in Macedonia, resolved to conquer and unite the Greek city-states and then conquer Asia Minor | 41 | |
| 10508575210 | Alexander the Great | Son of Phillip II, made conquests, spreading Greek culture, language, and philosophy. Died in 323 BC | 42 | |
| 10508579332 | Seleucids | Greek-influenced lands were divided into Seleucids in Asia, 305 to 83 BC | 43 | |
| 10508586450 | Ptolemies | Greek-influenced lands were divided into Ptolemies in Egypt | 44 | |
| 10508598310 | Achaemenid | Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes | 45 | |
| 10508598311 | Parthians | Originally nomadic peoples from Central Asia, ruled what is now Iraq beginning in 247 BC. Satrap system of governing | 46 | |
| 10508602554 | Sassanid | 224-651 AD, government promoted Zoroastrianism and persecuted Christians | 47 | |
| 10508635216 | Where was Sparta Located? | Peloponnesus peninsula (southern Greece) | 48 | |
| 10508638489 | Describe the society of Sparta | Militaristic society to control our people, all of life revolved around the army. | 49 | |
| 10508643284 | Political system of Sparta | Ruled by 2 king, an assembly, and a council of elders. | 50 | |
| 10508645928 | Culture of Sparta | They were behind other city-states in other areas of expertise (culturally and economically). They didn't like change and outside influence | 51 | |
| 10508651355 | Where was Athens located? | Attica Peninsula, northeast of Peloponnesus. | 52 | |
| 10508656917 | Political system of Athens | Democracy, only citizens could participate in gov and about 20 percent of the population were citizens. Citizens were equal and had freedom of speech | 53 |
