Vocabulary
To worship many gods
What is polytheism?
This means city-state.
What is polis?
This is a legal member of a country or city-state.
How did the government in Sparta differ from the government in Athens?
What is Sparta citizens had a weaker role in their government?
This guy had many conquests and spread Greek culture through those conquests.
Who is Alexander the Great?
This means "high city" in Greek.
What is acropolis?
This is a collection of myths that people tell about their gods.
What is mythology?
A land area surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
According to ancient Greek's beliefs, this is where most of their major gods lived.
What is Mount Olympus?
He developed the Socratic method of questioning.
Who is Socrates?
The government in which citizens take part directly in the day-to-day affairs of government.
What is direct democracy?
The government in which a small group of people rule.
What is oligarchy?
Greek for "rule by the best people."
What is aristocracy?
This principle is shared between modern democracies and Ancient Greece.
What is people having a voice in government.
He founded the Academy in Athens and wrote dialogues exploring justice and reality.
The art and practice of government.
This government is run by a strong ruler.
What is tyranny?
This is a form of government in which citizens hold political power.
What is democracy?
This group most benefited from oligarchies that governed many ancient Greek city-states.
Who are wealthy people?
He studied under Plato and contributed to many fields logic, biology, and ethics.
Who is Aristotle?
In this form of teaching, the teacher asks questions, forcing students to think more clearly.
What is the Socratic Method?
The democracy in which people elect representatives to make the nation's laws.
What is representative democracy?
This is the ownership and control of other people at property.
What is slavery?
This military tactic has the soldiers stand shoulder to shoulder with their shields overlapping.
What is phalanx?
This is where our alphabet came from.
What is the Phoenicians?