FP.5.SOC.1.1 – TIME, CONTINUITY, AND CHANGE
This global athletic competition began in ancient Greece to honor Zeus and is still held every four years today.
What are the Olympic Games?
Within Greece there would be conflict between these.
What are city-states?
Because mountains covered about 80% of Greece, communities grew up isolated from one another, forming these.
What are city-states?
The Greeks produced and consumed these few things most. (3)
What is olive oil, wine, and grapes?
This type of government, meaning "rule by the people," started in Athens but looked different because only free, adult male citizens could vote.
What is democracy?
This temporary peace agreement allowed athletes from different warring city-states to travel safely to the Olympic Games.
What is the Sacred Truce?
Because Greece is a peninsula surrounded by water, the ancient Greeks relied on this body of water for travel, food, and trade.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This economic term describes why Greece had to buy grain from Egypt because they lacked enough flat, fertile land to grow it themselves.
What is scarcity?
This type of column is the plainest and sturdiest of the three Greek styles, and it can still be seen on the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
What is a Doric column?
This form of interaction allowed the Greeks to share their alphabet, coins, and pottery styles with other cultures across the Mediterranean Sea.
What is trade (or maritime trade)?
Instead of farming wheat in their rocky soil, Greek farmers modified hillsides into steps to grow these two valuable crops.
What are olives and grapes?
Because Greece produced a massive extra amount of olive oil, this economic term describes what they had available to sell to other countries.
What is a surplus?
Before democracy, Athens was ruled by this type of government, where power belongs to a small group of rich, powerful families.
What is an oligarchy?
This fierce conflict united bitter rivals Athens and Sparta to defend their homeland against an invading empire from Asia.
What were the Persian Wars?
This mountain helped people worship the gods because of these reasons.
What is Mount Olympus? What is because the gods were believed to be up in the sky above Olympus and since it's the highest mountain, they could be closer when praying and worshipping the gods.
This central, open-air marketplace in Greek city-states was the economic heart of town where merchants bought, sold, and traded goods.
What is an agora?
Now days people use the three pillars because it represents these two things from two different places.
What is strength from Sparta and wisdom from Athens?
This cultural effect happened when Greek merchants traded with other civilizations, leading the Greeks to adapt and change to be more like others. (vocabulary word)
What is cultural diffusion?
Greek architects carved these large, open-air entertainment structures directly into the sides of rocky hills to naturally amplify the actors' voices.
What are amphitheaters?
In trade, this is the reason people use comparative advantage.
What is being able to focus on a few items to produce and trade, rather than trying to grow everything themselves.