Basic Facts of the Area
Greece is along what body of water?
Mediterranean Sea
Define Polis
a city state, included all surrounding areas including farms, villages, and houses of a city
How could one become a citizen?
be a man, own land, be wealthy
a thinker
Zues and Hera were the __________________ of the gods.
king and queen
Greece is adjacent to what two countries?
Italy and Egypt
What was the main temple of Athens called?
Parthenon
How could slaves gain freedom?
save money and buy their freedom
Hippocrates studied ______________
medicine and the human body
Aphrodite was the goddess of
love
What were the two main city states in Greece?
Athens and Sparta
Who was famed for their strength of army?
Sparta
How did jurymen vote?
hollow discs indicated guilty and solid discs indicated not guilty
What method of thinking did Aristotle invent?
logic
Athene, the goddess of wisdom and of Athens itself, was born from the head of _______________.
Zeus
Minotaur
Why was Athens easy to defend in time of war?
it set up high in elevation above the lower lands
How were the democracies different then vs. now?
women voting
Who taught the value of questioning common beliefs in order to find new ideas and explore new truths?
Socrates
The Olympic games were held once every four years in honor of which God?
Zeus
What four crops were mentioned as being grown in Greece?
olives, wheat, grapes, barley
Who won the Peloponnesian War?
Sparta
What was stamped on the coins minted in each Greek city?
city symbol
Plato founded a school for philosophers where he taught another famous philosopher named ___________.
Aristotle
Mount Olympus