It's Greek to Me
Who were the earliest people to live in Greece?
Minoans
The Persian Wars started when this person conquered Ionia.
Cyrus the Great
Why did the Greeks create stories or myths?
To explain the things they didn't understand.
Greeks were the first Europeans to develop what?
A writing system
This is land surrounded by three sides by water.
What is a peninsula
Greece is often called what?
The birthplace of Western Civilizations
545 B.C.E.
Who was Persephone's mother?
Demeter
This group of people created the very first alphabet.
The Phoenician
This body of water is the ost important to the ancient Greeks
What is the Aegean Sea
War
What is the name of the most well-known battles of the ancient world?
The Battle at Marathon
What happened to Persephone when she was viewing her mother's flowers?
Hades took her down to the land of the dead
This famous Greek historian called the writing system phoinikeia.
Herodotus
This mountain peak is the highest in Greece.
What is Mount Olympus
Trade routes crisscrossed this sea in Greece.
Mediterranean Sea
Name 2 of the Battlefields during the Persian War
Thermopylae
Plateae
Salamis
Marathon
Mycale
Hades was the god of the underworld, who was his brother?
Zeus
This style of writing means to write from right to left on one line and then reverse the writing on the new line.
What is ox-turning
This is a very narrow strip of land that connects the Peloponnesus to the continent.
What is an isthmus
Mountains separated groups of people in Greece so each group established this within the country.
Cities
What was the name of the city Artemisia led?
Halicarnassus
Who was Hermes?
The messenger of god
After meeting this group of people the Greek alphabet changed again.
Who are the Romans?
This very important crop in Greece grows on over 120 million trees.
what is the olive?