Vocabulary
Membership in a community, usually a city, state, or country.
What is citizenship?
A government ruled by one person who seizes power and may not have citizens’ approval.
What is a tyranny?
The winners of the Persian Wars.
Who are the Greeks?
These architectural feature commonly found in Ancient Greek buildings have three styles: Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian.
What are columns?
The Greek word for city-state.
What is polis?
A government in which citizens elect leaders to make decisions for them.
What is a representative democracy?
A government ruled by a small group of elite citizens.
What is an oligarchy?
The reason the word "marathon" is connected to the Persian Wars.
Why is it significant that a messenger ran 26 miles to deliver news of victory?
The original purpose of the Olympic Games.
How did Greeks train soldiers and honor Zeus?
In Athens, only these people were allowed to vote.
Who are adult male citizens?
A teaching style using deep questioning to get listeners to think.
What is the Socratic method?
A philosopher who believed truth comes from asking questions.
Who is Socrates?
The two city states who fought during the Peloponnesian Wars.
Who are Athens and Sparta?
The materials commonly used for Greek statues.
What are marble and gold?
These geographic features caused city-states to develop independently and each have their own culture.
What are mountains and seas?
A formation of soldiers standing close together with shields and spears.
What is a phalanx?
This philosopher believed in a world of perfect forms beyond our senses.
Who is Plato?
The reason the Greeks were able to defeat the Persians during the second Persian War.
Why is it significant that Athens and Sparta worked together?
In Ancient Greek drama, this type of play tells the story of a hero with a sad ending and often includes themes of fate and suffering.
What is tragedy?
The main difference between Athens and Sparta.
What is Athens focused on education and the arts, while Sparta focused on military training and discipline?
A high hill where important buildings were located in Greek city-states.
What is the acropolis?
He believed knowledge comes from observing the world and using reason.
Who is Aristotle?
The cause of the first Persian War.
What is Athens helping other Greeks rebel against Persia?
The type of poetry exemplified in The Iliad and The Odyssey?
What is epic poetry?