Miscellaneous 1
This is the belief and worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
This is the belief and worship of one god.
What is monotheism?
He was the leader of the Greek gods and the primary god that the Ancient Greeks worshiped.
Who was the god Zeus?
This word is an ancient Greek term that means "city," "state," or "city-state."
What is polis?
This is a form of government rule by the majority of the members of a population.
What is democracy?
The name of the main group of gods that the Greeks worshiped.
Who or what were The 12 Olympians?
Name three monotheistic religions.
What is: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam?
She was the daughter of the god Zeus. She was the goddess of the city of Athens and of wisdom and warfare.
Who was the goddess Athena?
This Greek polis was the leader of sea-faring and placed a lot of effort into building great temples, education, and philosophy.
What was the City of Athens?
This is form of government where a small group of powerful and rich people have control of a country, organization, or institution.
What is an oligarchy?
The word polis gave rise to this term, which means the art and practice of government.
What is politics?
Members of a Greek polis who had legal rights and could vote.
Who were the citizens?
He was the son of the god Zeus and the primary god worshipped by the City of Sparta. The god of war.
Who was Ares?
This Greek polis was the leader of warfare and placed a lot of effort into enslaving its neighbors, had the most feared military in Ancient Greece. It was lead by two kings.
What was the City of Sparta.
This is the form of government in Ancient Greece where a polis was under the control of an all-powerful man, a dictatorship.
What is a tyranny?
This is a word that means "high hill" where temples were built in a polis. It is used to refer to the hill that the temple of Athena was built upon in Athens.
What was an acropolis?
He was the King of Macedonia. He united the Greek polis' such as Athens, and Sparta, to attack and take over The Persian Empire. He was one of the greatest generals that has ever lived.
Who was Alexander The Great?
Who were tenant farmers?
What was the invention of the concept of Democracy?
This academic pursuit was invented in Ancient Greece, particularly Athens. It is the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline.
What is philosophy?
What was the story of The Trojan War?
This is the term used to describe a resident aliens in a Greek polis. In other words, it was a person who would have been born in one polis, but then moved to another to become a merchant or artisan.
What were metics?
This is the temple of the goddess Athena. It is located in the city of Athens atop of the Acropolis. There is a complete replica built in the city of Nashville, Tennessee.
What is the Parthenon?
This blind poet wrote the poems The Illiad and The Odyssey.
Who was Homer?
The greatest philosopher who ever lived, from the polis of Athens stated, "Smart people learn from everything and everyone. Average people learn from their experiences. Stupid people already have all of the answers."
Who was Socrates?
The collection of stories that people tell about their gods and heroes, such as The Iliad and The Odyssey.
What are myths?
This was the most famous sporting event in Ancient Greece that was dedicated to the god Zeus. Only Greeks could participate.
What were The Olympic Games?
This was the most important temple which contained oracles, women who could predict the future.
What was the Delphic Oracle?
This was the god who's temple contained the Delphic Oracle. He was the god of wisdom.
Who was the god Apollo?
A lasting form of Greek literature that teaches a moral lesson. The story of The Race Between the Tortoise and the Hare is the most famous one of these.
What is a fable?