GREEK BLOG #1

1.In 1900, archaeologists found evidence of the Minoan civilization, the earliest Greek civilization.
2.Minoan artists carved beautiful figures from bronze, gold, ivory, and silver, and painted frescoes, paintings made on wet plaster, on palace walls.
3.The Minoan civilization was named after the legendary king of Crete, King Minos, who had his palace in the city of Knossos.
4.Some historians believe that the Minoan civilization weakened when many coastal settlements on Crete were destroyed by tidal waves.
5.The Mycenaeans were a warring people, organized into groups or clans, who conquered the Minoans in central Crete.
6.Places where it was believed gods spoke through mortals were oracles.
7.Government in which citizens take part is democracy.
8.Rule by the Best- Aristocracy.
9.Blind poet who gathered oral poetry into two great epic poems- Homer.
10.Traditional stories about gods, goddesses, and heroes- myths.
11.While Athens was known for its laws and governmnet, Sparta was known for the physical strength and discipline of its people.
12.People the Spartans conquered were forced to work for them and were called helots.
13.The government officials made sure that the kings stayed within the law were called ephors.
14.Along with reading and writing, military training formed the basis of a young boy's education.
15.Draco is believed to have created Athen's first written law code around 621 B.C.
16.Agriculture was not the mainstay of Athen's economy.
17. Leveling does not mean carving small, flat plots of land from hillsides.
18.Athenian women were citizens, but could not vote, nor could they own or inherit property.
19.The main purpose of marriage was to have children.
20.Most Athenians did not believe that money should be spent on private homes, and not public buildings.
21.Athenian leader who tricked Xerxes and destroyed most of the Persian fleet was Themistocles.
22.Home of the Greek alliance's treasury before it was moved to Athens by Pericles was Delos.
23.The greatest Greek statesman was Pericles.
24.Destructive conflicts that weakened Greece was the Persican Wars.
25.Persian who defeated Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae was Xerxes.