Read pages 24-25  of your textbook (Ancient Empires and The Athenian Empire).  Then, on your own paper, answer the following questions.
Be sure to put your name on your paper.

1. Define the term "Empire".
2. What was likely the world's first Empire?
3. What name did the Greeks give themselves?
4. List three similarities that all Greeks shared.
5. In which city-state did the world's first democracy appear?
6. What does the term "Direct Democracy" mean?
7. Who had a right to vote in Athens?
8. What does Pericles believe about the role of Athenian government as it pertains to other states?
9. Which two city-states led the Greeks against the Persians in 480 B.C.E.?
10. Describe what the Delian League was?
11. Which City-States were at odds in the Peloponnesian War?
12. Who won the Peloponnesian War?
13. What is Hellenism?
14. Which great leader spread Hellenism throughout Egypt, Persia and India?