Where in the World
What covers about 70% of the land in Greece?
What are mountains and/or hills?
Many of our government buildings have what common Greek feature
What is a columns or pillars?
What does the word polis mean in Greek?
What is a city?
The city-state of Sparta didn't have this feature around it because the Spartans believed they didn't need one
What is a city wall?
What name did Odysseus use to trick the cyclops
Who no man or nobody?
The Minoan civilization was located on this island.
What is Crete?
This is held in a democratic government as the way for citizens to choose who represents then in the government.
What is an election? or What is a vote?
The open air marketplace in a city
What is an agora?
In Sparta, at what age were boys sent to school to learn to fight?
What is age 7?
Polyphemus was the son of this God
Who is the god Poseidon?
Narrow piece of land connecting a peninsula to the mainland.
What is an isthmus?
What were the requirements to be a citizen in Athens and Sparta?
To be an adult male and both them and their parents born in the polis.
This was a major factor in Athens losing the Archimedean War to Sparta, it killed 1/3 of the people in Athens
What is a disease or plague (Typhus)?
When a child was born in Sparta but was found unacceptable by the inspecting Elder they would do this to the child
What is abandoned to die in the wilderness?
Where were Odysseus and his men sailing to when they found the island of the cyclops?
What is the island of Ithaca?
Name two of the 3 sea surrounding Greece
What are the Ionian, Aegean, or Mediterranean?
In a democratic government what group of people is allowed to vote?
Citizens
What is the name of the part of the city built on a hill located in the center of the city?
What is the acropolis?
What is the term for a Spartan slave?
What is a helot?
Odysseus helped his men escape the cyclops cave by tying them under how many of these animals
What are 3 sheep?
Name of the peninsula where the city-state of Sparta was located
What is the Peloponnesus?
What form of government was created by ancient Greeks?
Democracy
What was the name of the temple in Athens dedicated to the Goddess Athena?
What is the Parthenon?
Name for an elite Spartan land soldier
What is a hoplite?
Author of the epic poems The Odyssey and The Iliad
Who is Homer the poet?