Greek Gov.
What is Democracy?
Philosophy is the pursuit of this.
What is wisdom/enlightenment?
The word for a Greek city.
What is a city-state?
This is the kind of democracy that Athenians had.
What is direct democracy?
The birthplace of democracy.
What is Athens?
The two groups not allowed to vote in Athens.
What is women and slaves?
Alexander the Great did this.
What is brought together Greece through force? (large empire)
This word meaning "a city built on top of a hill".
What is an acropolis?
The age young Spartan boys were taken from their families and put into intense military training.
What is age 7?
Two inventions that the Greeks made purely for entertainment.
What are the Olympics and the theatre?
When most people vote for a certain thing, and that is the thing that is chosen.
What is majority rule?
THe ancient Greek philosophers wanted us to do this.
What is question everything, ask why?
This word meaning someone who can vote.
What is a citizen?
These things were what the Spartan women were allowed/trained to do.
What is fight, run, jump, wrestle?
Ways we still see ancient Greek literature in the modern world.
What is Aesop fables and phrases like "Herculean/Midas touch/Achilles heel"?
The way that tyrants rule.
Who is Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle?
The way Phillip II/Alexander the Great arranged their armies.
What is a phalanx?
Athenian boys were educated in the following things. (Name 2)
What is reading, writing, singing, poetry, military training?
Ancient Greek myths show us that they did not have much scientific processes. Eventually, Greeks replaced myths with these three areas of focus.
The main difference between Athenian democracy and U.S democracy.
What is "direct democracy" (Athens) vs "representative democracy" (U.S).
Socrates was accused of this for the way he had people questioning things.
What is religious crimes (blasphemy) and ruining the youth?
This slave wrote stories that children are taught and most people know.
Who is Aesop? (Aesop's Fables)
What is the Peloponnesian War?
In the simplest form possible, explain how they discovered the Earth was round.
What is by measuring the shadows from the sun in two different cities?