Geography
The continent where Greece is located.
What is Europe?
The ancient Greek god of the sky.
Who is Zeus?
The group of people who had the most power in ancient Greece.
Who were free men?
The Greek city-state where democracy was first created.
What is Athens?
The method of transportation usually used to transport goods between Greek city-states and other civilizations.
What is sailing?
The sea where the Greek islands are located.
What is the Aegean Sea?
The place where the ancient Greeks believed their souls went after death.
What is the Underworld?
The word for the Greek city-state.
What is polis?
True or False? Most people in Athens were citizens and could participate in government.
False. The vast majority of Athenians did not have political rights.
The city-state that did not like to trade because they preferred to stay isolated.
What is Sparta?
What are mountains and seas?
The three main purposes of myths.
What are entertaining, teaching moral lessons, and explaining the world?
What is geometry?
A type of government that is ruled by a small group of people who are usually wealthy.
What is an oligarchy?
The reason why Athens had to trade for food.
What is that they did not have enough farmable land?
The peninsula where ancient Sparta was located.
What is the Peloponnese?
The city-state where the oracle that interpreted prophesies from Apollo was located.
What is Delphi?
The feature of Greek architecture that is still seen on buildings today.
What are columns?
The leader who expanded ancient Greece's empire into Egypt and India.
Who was Alexander the Great?
The currency used by ancient Sparta.
What are iron bars?
The earliest civilization in the Greek islands that preceeded (came before) the ancient Greeks.
Who were the Minoans?
The ancient Greek goddess of agriculture and harvest. The mother of Persephone.
Who is Demeter?
A play in which character fail to overcome serious problems.
What is a tragedy?
The first ruler to unite all of the Greek city-states.
Who was Philip II of Macedonia?
What are wine, olive oil, and amorphae (ceramic vase that held liquids)?