Vocabulary 1
A body of land that is surrounded by water on three sides
What is a peninsula?
A settlement in a new territory with strong ties to its homeland
What is colony?
A Greek city-state or a tiny independent country
What is a polis?
An open area market and a place to debate
What is an agora?
Someone who takes power by force and rules with total authority
What is a tyrant?
He was the father of Zeus and his siblings
Who is Kronus- the titan of time?
This is where the Gods and Goddesses were supposed to live.
Where is Mount Olympus?
What is a citizen jury?
Traditional stories about gods, goddesses and heroes
What is a myth?
Long poem that tells a story about heroic deeds
What is an epic?
A form of government in which a city-state is ruled by a monarch
What is a monarchy?
Love of wisdom
What is philosophy?
He wrote The Illiad andThe Odyssey
Who was Homer?
This goddess gave Athens the olive tree
Who is Athena?
This is the plain where the Persian army was defeated by the Greeks and a runner then announced that Athens had won.
Where was Marathon?
These are the three bodies of Water that surround Greece
What are the Mediterranean Sea, the Aegean Sea, and the Ionian Sea
A short tale to teach a moral lesson often with animals or inanimate objects as characters
What is a fable?
Enslaved neighbors - captive workers
What is a helot?
All citizens help run the government.
What is a democracy?
What a person leaves behind when he/she dies.
What is a legacy?
Any Greek thinker who believed the human mind could understand everything.
What is a philosopher?
The Greek alphabet was based on this groups alphabet
Who are the Phoenicians?
This battle took place on a narrow strip of water and an island.
Where is Salamis?
He developed the Socratic method
Who was Socrates?
In government where only a FEW people have the power.
What is oligarchy?
The union of Greek and Roman culture
What is the Classical age?
This scientist studies stars, planets and heavenly bodies.
What is an astronomer?
This is absolute or supreme power exercised by a dictator
What is dictatorship?
This was the person who first started democracy in Athens
Who is Pericles?
Father of Medicine - made the oath that doctors have to take
Who is Hippocrates?
The narrow pass through the mountains where Greeks fought the Persians.
Where is Thermopylae?
This city-state created the Peloponnesian League
What is Sparta?
This type of government requires EVERY citizen to vote on all laws and policies.
What is Direct Democracy?
Refers to a time when Greek language and ideas spread to non- Greek speaking people of SW Asia.
What is the Hellenistic Era?
The art or practice of designing and constructing buildings
What is architecture?
Polis
What is a city-state?
Son of Darius I - wanted revenge for the loss that his father had
Who is Xerxes?
He loved Greek philosophy and culture and spread it over his vast empire.
Who is Alexander the Great?
This is what Athens formed after the Persian Wars to keep themselves and other city-states safe.
What is the Delian League?
The greeks made this improvement to statues
What is made them more realistic or lifelike?