Land surrounded on three sides with water
What is a peninsula?
Independent cities with their own government, laws and army
What are city-states?
A popular but untrue idea
What is a myth?
Where the Greeks believed the gods lived
What is above Mt. Olympus?
How often the Games happened in ancient Greece
What is every 4 years
The first people to settle in Greece
Who were the Minoans?
The time period in Greek history where we have no writings or other information
What is the Dark Age?
The geographical feature of Greece that prevented the ancient Greek city-state from unifying into one central government
What is rocky mountains that made up a most of the land of Greece?
The trade item of ancient Greece that was prized by other peoples
What is olive oil?
75% of the terrain in Greece
What is rocky mountains?
Two things that all the ancient Greek city-states had in common (the same)
What are language and religion?
Being able to live forever
immortal
The king of the Greek gods
Who is Zeus?
The first Olympic Games had only this competition
What is the foot race?
The second group of people to settle Greece and who settled on the mainland
Who are the Mycynaeans?
The story of the Trojan War was written in an epic poem written by this man
Who is Homer?
The abundant geographical feature that gave the people of Greece fish to eat
What is the sea?
Because the Greeks could not grow a surplus of food this is how they were able to meet their needs
What is trading by sea
The sea on the eastern side of Greece
The city that received the wooden horse gift of the Mycenaeans
What is Troy?
Believes in many gods
What is polytheism?
Patron god of Athens
Athena
Not allowed to attend the ancient Greek Olympic games
Who were married women?
The surprise inside the wooden horse gift of the Mycenaeans
What was soldiers?
Homer wrote these two famous epic poems about Greek history and Greek legend
What is the "Illiad" and the "Odyssey"?
The large sea that the Ionic Sea and the Aegean Sea flow into
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Two of the few crops that can grow in the hot dry climate of Greece
What are olive trees, grapes, wheat and barley
The largest island of Greece where the first Greeks settled
What is Crete?
The location of the Olympic Games
What is Olympia?
polis
What is city-state?
The gift that the goddess Athena gave Athens, according to legend.
Olive tree
Three of the sporting events of the ancient Greek Olympics
What was Running, Discus Throw, Long Jump, Wrestling/Boxing,Javelin, Horseraising
The name we call the golden age of Greece
What is the Classical Age?
Athens gave the world this new form of government
What is democracy?
The famous large columned building on a hill in Athens
What is the Parthenon?
The major ancient Greek city of trade because of its good harbor
What is Corinth?
The only animals that could easily adapt to the rocky hills of Greece
What were sheep and goats?
The city where all of the life of all citizens was devoted to training for battle
What is Sparta?
oracle
What is a priest or priestess
Greek god of the underworld
Hades
The festival of Heraia, in honor of Zeus's wife Hera
What was a festival just for married women?
Alexander the Great ushered in this final age of Greece before the Romans conquered them.
What is the Hellenistic Age
The famous warrior king of Sparta
Who was Leonidas?
The name of the hill on which the Parthenon is located
What is the Acropolis?
The silver coin used by the traders of Corinth had these two pictures on each side if the coing
Who was the winged horse Pegasus and the goddess Athena?