Vocabulary
Geography
Philosophy
Government
Culture
100
A sea-based culture.
What is maritime?
100
A land form that is surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
100
The father of philosophy, he was forced to drink hemlock and commit suicide when he refused to stop questioning the leaders of ancient Greece.
Who is Socrates?
100
City-states were ruled by this group of people early in their history.
What is an aristocracy?
100
The group of people in Athens who could not own property, go to school or participate in democracy.
Who are women?
200
A government system run by the people.
What is democracy?
200
The sea that borders Greece to the south, Egypt to the north and was used for trade.
What is the Mediterranean?
200
A student of Socrates, he wrote The Republic and established The Academy.
Who is Plato?
200
These people were responsible for paying for the army, festivals and sporting events.
Who were aristocrats?
200
The blind poet who wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Who was Homer?
300
A story that describes events in nature or humans' interactions with the gods.
What is a myth?
300
The term for type of terrain in Greece.
What is rugged and/or mountainous?
300
A student of Plato's and tutor to Alexander the Great; his most famous book is titled Politics.
Who is Aristotle?
300
The city-state in which democracy developed.
What is Athens?
300
The god to whom the Olympic Games were dedicated.
Who was Zeus?
400
The Greek word for "action".
What is drama?
400
Alexander the Great took his army as far east as this country.
What is India?
400
He said "The unexamined life is not worth living".
Who was Socrates?
400
The system of government in Sparta, where they had a king.
What is a monarchy?
400
The patron goddess of Athens; the goddess of wisdom and war.
Who was Athena?
500
The love of wisdom.
What is philosophy?
500
The Greeks established these all around the Mediterranean when their city-states became crowded.
What are colonies?
500
Using thinking and reasoning.
What schools of philosophy taught their students to do.
500
What Greece became after Alexander the Great conquered Greece and many other countries.
What is an empire?
500
The father of medicine.
Who was Hippocrates?
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