Storytelling
Geography
Athens & Sparta
Early Civilization in Greece
City-States
100
Stories that use animals to teach moral lessons, such as “The Ant And The Grasshopper”
What is a fable
100
A stretch of land almost completely surrounded by water. The country of Greece is located on the Balkan one of these
What is a peninsula
100
When Spartans, descendants of the Dorians, conquered their neighbors they would force the captured people to become slaves owned by the city-state of Sparta. At some points in Spartan history there were as many as four of these captured slaves for each free citizen.
What are Helots
100
This was one of the earliest civilizations in Greece which started building elaborate cities and palaces on the island of Crete in about 2000BC
Who are the Minoans
100
This is the Greek word for city-state
What is polis
200
A long poem
What is an Epic
200
The Greek landscape is defined by these and Seas. These cover roughly 75% of the mainland of Greece.
What are Mountains
200
This is the lawmaker that wrote the first recorded laws for Athens, which were very harsh. His name was used to make a new word which means "with great severity"
Who was Draco
200
The civilization that flourished on Crete between 2000BC and 1100BC was named after this legendary king of Crete.
Who is King Minos
200
This is the open-air market which is the political centre of the Greek city-state
What is agora
300
Stories about how the actions of gods and goddesses affected peoples lives.
What is a myth
300
This group of approximately 200 islands to the southeast of the mainland are spread out over 1,000 square miles. The islands are characterized by mild winters and cool summers. From 3000BCE to 2000BCE this area flourished and the people made their living as fishers, farmers, traders, and craftspeople.
What are the Cyclades
300
What was the law making group in Sparta that new laws were proposed to?
What is the assembly.
300
This civilization which rose to prominence in approximately 1600 BCE is considered to be the first Greek civilization because they spoke an early form of greek.
Who are the Myceneans
300
This is the fort on top of a hill at the base of which city-states are built.
What is an Acropolis
400
Professional storytellers who travelled from town to town telling stories and singing songs about Greek gods, goddesses, and heroes/heroines
Who are bards
400
Despite the dangers of the seas, the Greeks depended on it for food, transportation and trade. Luckily the Greek shoreline has many of these. These areas are sheltered places with deep water close to the shore.
What are natural harbours
400
At the age of seven Spartan boys were sent here to get a Spartan education. While here the boys slept and ate together in a barracks. The learned to read and write, but the majority of there time was spent learning gymnastics, wrestling, and military exercises. They learned how to accept hardship and how to obey orders without queston.
What are training camps.
400
Some say that the "First Greeks" came into decline because of infighting in approximately 1000BCE. However, others believe that invasions from this Greek-speaking people to the north may have weakened them instead.
Who are the Dorians
400
By 500BCE many Greek city-states had overthrown unpopular tyrants. In search of a new form of government many city-states, such as Athens, started to form an early type of this kind of government that is ruled by the people.
What is a democracy
500
Stories handed down from earlier times that explain the past and which may be based on actual events.
What are legends
500
A small area of land that connects two larger ones, such as the one between the Ionian and Aegean Seas which prevents the Peloponnesus from being separated from the rest of the mainland of Greece.
What is an isthmus
500
He was the well respected ruler of Athens who was known for his fair handling of government and business matters. He cancelled all the debts and released all Athenians who had sold themselves into slavery to their debt-holders.
Who is Solon.
500
In the 700s BCE, a Greek bard named Homer collected stories of the seige and capture of Troy in the Trojan war and the events leading up to and following this event and composed two epic poems about the event called. . .
What are the Iliad and the Odessey
500
The most famous oracle, a divine place where the Greeks could ask their gods for advice, was a temple to Apollo, the god of light and music, located at the foot of mount Parnassus in this location.
What is Delphi
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