Geography of Greece
Early Greek Civilizations
The Polis and City-States
Athens, Sparta, and Expansion
Philosophy and Empire
100

This small European country consists of a mountainous peninsula and numerous islands, totaling about 50,000 square miles.

What is Greece?

100

This early Greek civilization reached its high point between 1400 and 1200 B.C.

What is the Mycenaean civilization?

100

This Greek term for “city-state” is also the root for the English word “politics.”

What is polis?

100

Instead of starting new colonies, this Greek city-state conquered its neighbors, including the Messenians.

What is Sparta?

100

This philosopher taught by asking questions to lead pupils to reason for themselves.

Who is Socrates?

200

What US state is Greece the size of? 

What is Louisiana 

200

The Mycenaeans were part of this larger family of peoples.

What is the Indo-European family?

200

This fortified hilltop in the polis served as a refuge during attacks and later as a religious center.

What is the acropolis?

200

This Greek alliance, led by Athens, was formed in 478 B.C. to defend against the Persians.

What is the Delian League?

200

This philosopher, a student of Socrates, believed in a higher world of eternal unchanging forms.

Who is Plato?

300

About 80% of Greece is covered by these natural landforms, many reaching 8,000–10,000 feet high.

What are mountains?

300

Mycenaean monarchs lived in palaces surrounded by these gigantic structures.

What are stone walls?

300

This open area below the acropolis served as both a marketplace and a meeting place.

What is the agora?

300

This Athenian leader expanded democracy and turned Athens into the cultural center of Greece.

Who is Pericles?

300

This philosopher, Plato’s student, focused on analyzing and classifying things through observation.

Who is Aristotle?

400

Because Greece was surrounded by water, its people became skilled at this activity.

What is sailing (or being seafarers)?

400

This poet used stories of the Trojan War to compose The Iliad and The Odyssey.

Who is Homer?

400

In most city-states, this group of people had political rights.

Who are adult men?

400

Athens’ economy depended heavily on these two main activities.

What are farming and trade?

400

This Macedonian king’s conquests spread Greek culture throughout Asia and North Africa.

Who is Alexander the Great?

500

These two peninsulas make up much of the Greek landmass.

What are the Peloponnesian peninsula and the mainland?

500

The Mycenaean civilization collapsed due to internal fighting and this type of natural disaster.

 What are earthquakes?

500

This type of ruler seized power by force from aristocrats but later fell out of favor in Greece.

What is a tyrant?

500

Greek expansion across the Mediterranean spread their culture and political ideas to these regions, including southern Italy and northern Africa.

What are Greek colonies?

500

The blending of Greek and Eastern cultures after Alexander’s conquests was called this.

What is Hellenistic culture?

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