The Extra-Ancient Greeks
Mycenae was located on this famous Peninsula.
What is the Peloponnesus?
The city state responsible for creating democracy.
This city state was known for its strong Navy.
What is Athens?
This god was known as the king of Mt. Olympus.
Who is Zeus?
Alexander's father who conquered Greece from the north.
Who is Philip II?
The author of the Illiad and the Odyssey.
Who was Homer?
Sparta's oligarchy had a council of 28.
What is the Gerousia?
The first Persian war began with this battle, which we now name a modern running event after.
His brothers gave him domain over the underworld, so he did not live on Mt. Olympus.
Who is Hades?
The Kingdom north of Greece where Alexander comes from.
What is Macedon?
Mycenaeans used this metal to build armor and weapons.
What is Bronze?
The Oracle lived at this sacred site of Apollo.
What is Delphi?
After his father, Darius I, failed to defeat the Greeks, he planned a new invasion of the city states.
Who is Xerxes I?
This goddess was the patron god of Athens.
Who is Athena?
Alexander left this province, or kingdom, to Ptolemy, whose descendant was Cleopatra.
What is Egypt?
This regional power ruled Mesopotamia in the east while the Mycenaeans ruled Greece.
What is Babylon?
The city state that held the Olympics.
What is Olympia?
This clever Athenian general evacuated Athens and defeated the Persian navy in the battle of Salamis.
Who is Themistocles?
You might find this god at a party or a wine festival.
Who is Dionysus?
Before Alexander's conquest of Greece, the Spartans had an alliance named after their home peninsula.
What is the Peloponnesian League?
He came up with the idea of the Trojan Horse; The main character of Homer's second poem.
Who is Odysseus?
Also called the Achaemenid Empire.
What is the Persian Empire?
The Spartan Shield wall.
What is a Phalanx?
What is Divine intervention?
As Alexander conquered Greece and Persia, this city state was growing in power in Italy.
What is Rome?