Geography
The landform that describes the main part of Greece.
What is a peninsula?
These are told about gods and goddesses and often try to explain events that occur in nature.
What are myths?
These were responsible for separating Greece into independent city-states.
What are the mountains?
This city state ships defeated the Persians at the battle of Salamis.
What is Athens?
Creative military mind, courage, and confidence helped this person expand his empire.
Who is Alexander the Great?
The three seas that surround Greece.
What are the Aegean Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Ionian Sea?
Another name for a city-state.
What is a polis?
Two things that the Greeks did for entertainment.
What is going to the agora, attending the outdoor theater, religious celebrations, attending sports and athletic contests?
The fields of study that the Greeks excelled in during the Golden Age.
What are the arts, architecture, philosophy, and medicine?
Alexander the Great conquered a vast empire on these three continents.
What are Europe, Asia, and Africa?
This made it possible for Greek ideas to spread.
What is trade?
This city-state only allowed healthy infants to live and gave women more rights than in other city-states.
What is Sparta?
The type of life that the citizens of Sparta led.
What is an army centered life?
The alliance of Greek city-states formed by Athens.
What is the Delian League?
During this age new Greek cities were founded, young people read the works of Greek writers, trade became international.
What is the Hellenistic Age?
The outdoor marketplaces where many Greeks spent their time.
What are agoras?
This city-state had the best example of Greek democracy.
What is Athens?
The weather in Greece during summer and winter.
What is hot, dry summers and rain during the winter months?
Sparta and other Greek city-states did this to rebel against Athens.
What is the reason they destroyed farms and homes around Athens?
Which was not a discovery made during the Hellenistic Age: a system of plane geometry, a system of writing, understanding of how the human body works, or an understanding of how levers work?
What is a system of writing?
Valuables taken from another country during wartime.
What is plunder?
A government that was controlled by a few wealthy, privileged families.
What is an aristocracy?
This made Mycenae so well protected.
What are twenty-foot thick walls surrounding the city?
This killed thousands of people in Athens.
What is the plaque?
Which was not a factor in Alexander's rise to power in the Greek empire: quick defeat of India; defeated the Persian Empire, conquered Syria and Phoenicia, became pharaoh of Egypt?
What is a quick defeat of India?