Geography
This sea is a major trade route for Greece.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Government by the people.
What is a democracy?
The Persian Wars were fought between Persia and
What is Athens and the rest of Greece?
The ancient Greeks practiced this type of religion.
What is polytheism?
This epic poem told the story of the Trojan War.
What is the Iliad?
He conquered the Persian Empire.
Who is Alexander the Great?
The mountains where important to Greece because
What is making them have city-states?
In an oligarchy, these control the government.
What is a group of people?
This city-state had the strongest navy.
What is Athens?
A story that explains something in nature.
What is a myth?
This is the most important Greek temple showing Greek architecture.
What is the Parthenon?
Greek culture was spread throughout Southwest Asia and Egypt.
What was the main impact of Alexander the Great’s conquests?
The _________________ Peninsula is the home of the city-state of Sparta.
What is Peloponnesian?
A tyrant uses this to gain control of the government.
What is the army or force?
The name of the war where the Spartans fought the Athenians.
What is the Peloponnesian war?
He is the most powerful of the Greek gods.
Who is Zeus?
This epic poem told of the journey home of Odysseus.
What is the Odyssey?
He gave control of the Greek city-states back to Greece. He conquered the Persian Empire and expanded his empire all the way into India. He ended his conquests because his soldiers refused to continue.
Why was Alexander the Great well-respected?
This region was north of Greece and the home of Alexander the Great.
What is Macedonia?
The government of Athens.
What is a democracy?
The start of the Persian War was
What is Athens helping Greeks in Asia Minor?
These were held in honor of Zeus every 4 years.
What are the Olympics?
Greek architecture uses these 3 types of columns.
What are Doric, Corinthian, and Ionian.
After his death, Alexander’s empire fell apart because his
What is general's fought over the empire?
A Greek city-state
What is a polis?
The government of Sparta.
What is an oligarchy?
Macedonia conquered Greece because
What is the Peloponnesian Wars made Greece weak?
This is where the 12 main gods and goddesses live.
What is Mount Olympus?
These were the Greeks that fought in the Trojan War.
Who are the Mycenaeans?