Vocabulary
A person who rules by force.
What is a tyrant?
A fortress on a hill in Athens.
What is the Acropolis?
What are mountains?
This myth had the message to think about the consequences of your actions.
What is the Journey to the Underworld with Orpheus and Eurydice?
The peninsula in southern Greece (this war is named after it).
What is the Peloponnese?
A type of government where a small group of people are in charge.
What is an oligarchy?
This myth had the message to not be too full of yourself or your abilities.
This is a country formally cooperating with another country.
What is an ally?
A type of government where the people rule themselves.
What is democracy?
Land that has three sides of water around it.
What is a peninsula?
The two groups that came before the Greeks.
What are the Minoans and Myceneans?
This myth had the message to be grateful for what you have and to not be greedy.
What is the Golden Touch with King Midas and Bacchus?
The city-state that both Athens and Sparta wanted control over.
What is Corinth?
A rich person who owns land.
What is an aristocrat?
Poems about a hero.
The reason we can't trust writings from Ancient Greece.
What is mythology?
What is the Face in the Pool with Echo and Narcissus?
The thing that protected the city of Athens most during the war.
What are the city walls?
What is a constitution?
A piece of paper that ends a conflict.
What is a treaty?
The body of water that Greece extends into.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The gods that appeared in the myths were named...
What is Bacchus and Minerva?
Who were the groups that Athens and Sparta were fighting WITH in the war? Name at least one.
What is the Delian League and the Peloponnese League?