Ancient Greece Geography
A body of land that is surrounded on three sides by water.
What is a peninsula?
A government in which the ruling power is in the hands of one person.
What is a monarchy?
A large city state considered a rival to Athens
What is Sparta?
This empire was the largest in the world. It stretched from Egypt to India
What is the Persian Empire?
The language spoke in Greece.
What is Greek?
How did geography affect Ancient Greece?
It was harder to grow crops so they had to trade.
A government in which power is held by the people, who exercise power directly or through elected representatives.
What is a democracy?
All male citizens in Sparta entered the army at this age.
What is age 20?
When Athens was fighting Persia, their spears were more effective than these weapons used by the Persians.
What are arrows?
The Ruler of the Greek gods.
Who is Zeus?
The name of the highest mountain in Greece where the 12 gods and goddesses lived.
What is Mount Olympus?
A system of government called when "few people" ruled who had wealth and land.
What is Oligarchy?
Spartans were able to be full-time Soldiers because of this group of rebellious slaves.
What are Helots?
This battle was an unexpected victory for the Greeks. Immediately after, a man ran 25 miles back to Athens to report the victory and to prevent the Persians from attacking Athens. The battle was named after this event and so was a long race.
What is the battle of Marathon?
What main religion or belief systems did the Greeks have?
Polytheistic
Why were Ancient Greek communities isolated from each other?
This is because of the peninsula and the mountains that surrounded Greece
A person who has certain rights and duties in a city-state or nation.
Who is a citizen?
Athenians developed a government where all citizens would meet to decide on the laws.
What is a direct democracy?
These Greeks lived along the coast of Turkey, near the Ionian Sea. They were the first to be conquered by the Persians.
Who are the Ionians?
Name 3 Greek gods or goddesses?
answers will vary- Athena, Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Aphrodite, Ares. Hermes....etc.
What main difficulty did people face while traveling in Greece?
The rocks, hills and mountains made traveling difficult.
A group of citizens, in an Ancient Greek democracy, with the power to pass laws.
What is an assembly?
Sparta had a government that included Monarchy, Oligarchy and part Democracy. Two kings ruled Sparta and five elected supervisors ran the government. They also had a group of 30 older citizens who proposed the laws.
Who are the Council of Elders?
Spartans sacrificed a number of men to guard the narrow pass at Thermopylae. It was the same number of Persian ships that the Greeks sunk.
What is 300?
This mythical character is known as a hero today because he defied authority by stealing fire from the gods and giving it to humans
Who is Prometheus?