Geography
The percentage of land in Greece that was fertile
What is "25%"?
This city-state valued education and knowledge
What is Athens?
Thinking about thinking
What is philosophy?
Government that has a king
What is a monarchy?
Author of the Odyssey and the Iliad
Who is Homer?
This geographic feature kept city-states separated from one another.
What are mountains?
This city-state treated women as warriors and "the defense" in times of war.
What is Sparta?
The Greeks gained access to the city of Troy by sending this gift.
What is the Trojan Horse?
A government where citizens vote directly for laws and policies
What is direct democracy?
Greek who conquered land from Egypt to India
Who is Alexander the Great?
The sea to the west of Greece
What is the Ionian?
This city-state was burned to the ground by Alexander the Great
What is Thebes?
During this event, all fighting between city-states would stop
What are the Panhellenic Games?
A small group of wealthy people run the government.
What is an oligarchy?
The "Father of History"
Who is Herodotus?
Greek center of knowledge located in Egypt, had 500,000 books in it
What is the Library of Alexandria?
Philip II was elected king of this empire
What is Macedonia?
The two kinds of Greek theatre
What are Comedy and Tragedy?
A government where citizens vote for representatives who vote on specific laws
What is representative democracy?
Tutor to Alexander the Great.
Who is Aristotle?
The island first occupied by the Minoans
What is Crete?
Socrates used this to try and make his students think more deeply about their answers
What is "The Socratic Method"?
According to mythology, this "god" ruled over the skies and storms
Who is Zeus?
This city-state had a combination of kings, representatives, and elders called "ephors"
What is Sparta?
Philosopher who asked how large the earth was and how it stayed in the sky, thought the world was a disk
Who is Thales?