Geography
The way Greece's physical geography influenced early civilizations.
What is encouraging people to be sailors and fisherman, along with keeping city states separate?
A city with its own independent traditions, laws, and government.
What is a city state?
Taught the great philosopher who taught Plato.
Who was Socrates?
A member of a rich and powerful family.
What is an aristocrat?
The king of the gods.
Who was Zeus?
Home of the gods.
What was Mount Olympus?
A form of government in which citizens govern themselves.
What is a democracy?
Conquered most of the known world.
Who was Alexander the Great?
To murder for political reasons.
What is to assassinate?
A long poem that tells a story.
What is an Epic?
An area of land nearly surrounded by water.
What is a peninsula?
Greek's greatest work of architecture.
What is the Parthenon
The blind, Greek, poet.
Who was Homer?
Someone who used reason to understand the world.
What is a philosopher?
A widespread disease.
What is the plague?
A high rocky hill on or near where early people built cities.
What is an acropolis?
Sometimes these people were captured during war, they were known as Helots in Sparta.
What are slaves?
The leader of Athens during the Golden Age.
Goddess of Wisdom
Who is Athena?
To isolate the enemy and cut off its supplies.
What is a blockade?
The three seas that connect Ancient Greece.
What are the Ionian sea, the Aegean Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea?
The people of Sparta believed this was the major importance of their society.
What is Military strength?
This ancient Greek invented geometry.
Who was Euclid?
The Spartans and the other city states joined together to form this league.
What is the Peloponnesian League?
A type of serious drama that ends in disaster for the main character.
What is a Greek tragedy?