Geography
What is the MAIN geographical DIFFERENCE between Ancient Greece & the other civilizations we’ve studied this year?
What is there was not a major river that provided lots of fertile farmland?
True or False: Ancient Greeks were polytheistic.
What is True?
This blind poet is credited as the “author” of the Illiad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
Athens was the birthplace of this type of government “by the people.”
What is democracy?
Because much of Greece is surrounded by water, this form of transportation was very important.
What are ships?
Mainland Greece is one of these landforms surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
In all Greek city-states, he was the king god.
Who is Zeus?
The Greeks invented this form of entertainment that we still feel the influence of every time we watch TV or a movie.
What is drama?
Who was responsible for:
uniting Greece into an Empire & expanding it into Africa and Asia
Spreading Hellenism, which is why we still have so much influence from ancient cultures in our lives today through cultural diffusion?
Who is Alexander the Great?
In which city-state were women given more freedom, Athens or Sparta?
What is Sparta?
Why was Ancient Greece made up of separate city-states instead of one, unified country?
Most of the land was covered with mountains, which made travel and communication difficult.
The Parthenon in Athens is dedicated to this goddess.
Who is Athena?
Euclid and Pythagoras were both philosophers who influenced this area of study.
What is math?
Ancient Sparta had this type of government ruled by a small group of wealthy people.
What is an oligarchy?
How did the Greeks use the water near them to get goods they didn’t have naturally?
They became excellent sailors so they could trade with other civilizations.
True or False: There was enough fertile soil and rivers to grow enough crops to feed the population in Ancient Greece.
What is False?
This word comes from a Greek term that means “the love of wisdom” and can also mean how someone believes life should be lived.
What is philosophy?
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle all spent parts of their lives in this city.
What is Athens?
He was the leader of Athens during the Golden Age.
Who is Pericles?
In which city-state were foreigners less welcome, Athens or Sparta?
What is Sparta?
This large sea is located to the South of Greece and allowed for trade with other ancient civilizations.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Hippocrates, the “father” of this, was the first to say that the gods did not cause illness and disease.
What is medicine?
This philosopher was Alexander the Great’s teacher.
Who is Aristotle?
In Athens, only this group of people were given the right to vote, which included adult men born in Greece, only.
What are citizens?
In which city-state was education and wisdom considered important, Athens or Sparta?
What is Athens?