Geography
The continent where Greece is located.
What is Europe?
This type of architecture from ancient Greece still influences our architecture today.
What are columns?
This major athletic sporting event is modeled after the games of ancient Greece.
What is the Olympics?
This city-state is known as the birthplace of democracy, and the government of the United States is based on many of their ideas.
What is Athens?
The God of War
Who is Ares?
The Sea that surrounds Greece
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This is the famous temple with columns that was built on the Acropolis in Athens.
What is the Parthenon?
These people (two groups) were not allowed to compete or even watch the Olympic games in ancient Greece.
What is women and slaves?
These are the people who could vote in the democracy of ancient Athens.
Who are free, landowning men (over the age of 20)?
The god of love and beauty.
Who is Aphrodite?
A piece of land surrounded by water on 3 sides (Greece is an example of one).
What is a peninsula?
These are the 3 types of Greek columns.
What are Doric Columns, Ionic Columns, and Corinthian Columns?
The first Olympic games were held in this city-state
What is Olympia?
This is the type of government that ruled over ancient Sparta.
What is oligarchy?
The god of messengers.
Who is Hermes?
The main physical feature of Greece.
What are mountains?
This is the most plain and simple column.
What is the Doric Column?
The Olympic games began as a religious festival to honor this Greek god.
Who is Zeus?
This is the general name of landowning, free men who live in and belong to Ancient Athens?
Who are citizens?
God of the Underworld.
Who is Hades?
Roughly the amount of islands that make up Greece.
What is 6,000 islands?
The Parthenon was built to honor this goddess.
Who is Athena?
This was the only event held at the first Olympics.
What is a foot race?
The government of the United States is different from that of ancient Greece, because we elected someone to represent us, and the REPRESENTATIVE does the voting. This is the name for our type of government. Hint: Think Rome
What is a republic?.
God of fire and the forge.
Who is Hephaestus?