Geography & Development
Peninsula that Greece is located on?
What is Balkan?
He was he king of the gods.
Who is Zeus?
Athens and Sparta teamed up to fight off a giant empire in these wars.
What are the Persian Wars?
Important epic poet - he wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
Type of government where citizens rule.
What is democracy?
Name at least one sea that surrounds Greece.
What is Ionian Sea, Aegean Sea, Black Sea or Mediterranean Sea?
She is the goddess of wisdom and warfare (strategy).
Who is Athena?
Athens and Sparta fought against each other in these wars.
What are the Peloponnesian Wars?
He is known as the Father of History.
Who is Herodotus?
Name at least one part of a polis.
What are the acropolis or agora?
Physical features that GREATLY affected Greece's development.
What are mountains?
TYPE of religion that Greeks practiced.
What is polytheistic?
Battle formation that Greeks used - it gave them an advantage against the Persians!
What is the phalanx?
He ruled over Athens in its' Golden Age; he introduced direct democracy and built the Parthenon.
Who is Pericles?
After the Persian Wars, Athens created this alliance. It eventually faced off against the Peloponnesian League.
What is the Delian League?
Name two reasons Greece developed into city-states.
What is because it was hard to travel and communicate?
Name somewhere we still see symbols of Greeks gods today.
What is in literature/books, art and architecture?
Greece winning the Persian Wars led to this important time period in Greek history.
What is the Golden Age?
Name one important mathematician.
Who is Euclid, Pythagoras or Archimedes?
Alexander the Great created this type of culture by blending the cultures of the people he conquered.
What is Hellenistic?
Type of culture did Greeks spread as they traded with others.
What is Hellenic?
Name at least two things that myths explained.
What are natural phenomena/events, emotions and life events (birth/death)?
These wars led to the decline and eventual fall of Greece.
What are the Peloponnesian Wars?
These men were thinkers, or philosophers in ancient Greece. (3)
Who are Socrates, Plato and Aristotle?
Name the two types of government that were ruled by ONE person.
What are monarchy and tyranny?