Geography & Influence
The mainland of Greece is a land surrounded by water on three sides, which is called a ______.
What is a peninsula?
Government controlled by a king.
What is a monarchy?
Spartan money was made from this substance.
What is iron?
This empire tried to conquer Greece.
What is Persia?
Zeus, Athena, and Hades are examples of this.
Greece has many of these natural barriers.
What are mountains?
Government led by the people fulfilling their civic duty.
What is a democracy?
City-state that traded with other cities/countries.
What is Athens?
Before this battle, an Athenian runner ran to Sparta, to tell them about the Persians.
What is the Battle of Marathon?
This athletic competition is held every four years.
What is the Olympics?
These people gave the Greeks their alphabet.
Who are the Phoenecians?
Government controlled by a few people (sometimes wealthy).
What is an oligarchy?
The name of the Athenian marketplace.
What is the agora?
This Macedonian conquered Greece, parts of Asia, and parts of Africa.
Who is Alexander the Great?
Euclid came up with a textbook with this type of shape measurement.
What is geometry?
This group of people influenced Greek shipbuilding and use of the sea.
Who are the Phoenicians OR the Myceneans?
Government taken by force and controlled by one person.
What is a tyranny?
Women had more power in this polis.
What is Sparta?
Alexander the Great is responsible for the spread of Greek culture, called this:
What is Hellenism?
Hippocrates was known as the father of this.
What is the father of modern medicine?
The group of people who influenced the Greeks to build an acropolis.
Who are the Minoans?
The U.S. democracy is different in this way.
What is a direct democracy vs. representative democracy?
The name of the government building (acropolis) dedicated to Athena.
What is the Parthenon?
What happened to the empire after Alexander the Great died.
What is it was split up into 3 kingdoms by his generals?
Our letter system comes from these two Greek words.
What are alpha and beta?