This small European country consists of a mountainous peninsula and numerous islands, totaling about 50,000 square miles.
What is Greece?
This early Greek civilization reached its high point between 1400 and 1200 B.C.
What is the Mycenaean civilization?
This Greek term for “city-state” is also the root for the English word “politics.”
What is polis?
Instead of starting new colonies, this Greek city-state conquered its neighbors, including the Messenians.
What is Sparta?
This philosopher taught by asking questions to lead pupils to reason for themselves.
Who is Socrates?
What US state is Greece the size of?
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The Mycenaeans were part of this larger family of peoples.
What is the Indo-European family?
This fortified hilltop in the polis served as a refuge during attacks and later as a religious center.
What is the acropolis?
This Greek alliance, led by Athens, was formed in 478 B.C. to defend against the Persians.
What is the Delian League?
This philosopher, a student of Socrates, believed in a higher world of eternal unchanging forms.
Who is Plato?
About 80% of Greece is covered by these natural landforms, many reaching 8,000–10,000 feet high.
What are mountains?
Mycenaean monarchs lived in palaces surrounded by these gigantic structures.
What are stone walls?
This open area below the acropolis served as both a marketplace and a meeting place.
What is the agora?
This Athenian leader expanded democracy and turned Athens into the cultural center of Greece.
Who is Pericles?
This philosopher, Plato’s student, focused on analyzing and classifying things through observation.
Who is Aristotle?
Because Greece was surrounded by water, its people became skilled at this activity.
What is sailing (or being seafarers)?
This poet used stories of the Trojan War to compose The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
In most city-states, this group of people had political rights.
Who are adult men?
Athens’ economy depended heavily on these two main activities.
What are farming and trade?
This Macedonian king’s conquests spread Greek culture throughout Asia and North Africa.
Who is Alexander the Great?
These two peninsulas make up much of the Greek landmass.
What are the Peloponnesian peninsula and the mainland?
The Mycenaean civilization collapsed due to internal fighting and this type of natural disaster.
What are earthquakes?
This type of ruler seized power by force from aristocrats but later fell out of favor in Greece.
What is a tyrant?
Greek expansion across the Mediterranean spread their culture and political ideas to these regions, including southern Italy and northern Africa.
What are Greek colonies?
The blending of Greek and Eastern cultures after Alexander’s conquests was called this.
What is Hellenistic culture?