Geography
Type of landform that is surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
The type of government that was originally in place in Athens.
What is monarchy?
The empire that a unified Greece (Athens and Sparta) fought against.
What is Persia?
The king of the Gods.
Who is Zeus?
The temple to Athena built by Pericles.
What is the parthenon?
The lack of land suitable for farming.
What is limited arable land?
The type of government where people have the power and make all decisions.
What is direct democracy?
The battle during the Persian wars where 300 Spartans fought the Persians.
What is the Battle of Thermopylae?
The worship of more than one God.
What is polytheism?
Wrote the Iliad and Odyssey.
Who was Homer?
Large island off the coast of Greece in the Med Sea.
What is Crete?
The two notable tyrants that ruled Athens.
Who are Draco and Solon?
The league led by Athens during the Peloponnesian War.
What is the Delian League?
The patron Goddess of Athens.
Who was Athena?
The empire conquered by Alexander the Great that dramatically increased the size of land under his control.
What was Persia?
Geographic feature that made travel by land difficult.
What are mountains?
Rule by the wealthy
What is an aristocracy?
The agreement made by Athens and Sparta that ended the Peloponnesian War ?
What is a truce?
Stories about Gods that explain life events and natural phenomena.
What is mythology?
The term that refers to Greek culture that was spread by Alexander the Great.
What is Hellenistic culture?
The region on the western coast of Asia Minor that was controlled by Greece.
What is Ionia?
The term that refers to independent city-states and city pride.
What is polis?
The Athenian Navy defeated Persia at this battle.
What is the Battle of Salamis?
The wife of Zeus and Goddess of marriage and childbirth.
Who was Hera?
Greek philosopher who educated Alexander the Great.
Who was Aristotle?