Geography
What is the most common landform in Ancient Greece?
The most common landform is mountains, they cover up 80% of Greece.
What were the gods called?
The gods were called Olympians.
What do they call the games that take place every 4 years?
They are the Olympics which is a honoring to the Greek god Zeus.
Where was the world's first democracy founded?
It was founded in Athens.
The Greco-persian war was between who?
It was between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire.
What was the tallest mountain in Ancient Greece?
The tallest mountain in Ancient Greece was Mount Olympus which the Greeks believed the gods used to live.
Where do the Olympians reside?
The Olympians reside on Mount Olympus.
Which two Greek letters does the word alphabet come from?
The word alphabet comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and beta.
What was Athen's government?
Athen's government was a democracy.
The Peloponnesian war was between who?
Athens(and their allies) and Sparta(and their allies).
Was Athens near the coast or was inland? Where was Sparta, inland or near the coast?
Athens was near the coast while Sparta was inland.
Who was the god of the gods?
Zeus was the god of the gods.
Who invented and used geometry as well as the pythagorean theorem?
It was the Greek mathematician Pythagoras
Who could vote in Athens?
Free men born in Athens. They had to own land and be a citizen.
Who won the Peloponnesian War?
Sparta and their allies.
Where was Ancient Greece located?
Ancient Greek civilization was concentrated in what is today Greece and along the western coast of Turkey.
Who was Athen's patron goddess?
Goddess Athena.
Who was called the "father of medicine".
It was Hippocrates.
What was Sparta's government?
A militaristic oligarchy.
Who took after Greece after the Peloponnesian wars?
Macedonian king Alexander the Great.
When was Ancient Greece formed?
It's generally agreed that Ancient Greece as a civilization was born in 1600 BC.
How many Olympian gods are there?
There are 12 which include:
Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, Aphrodite, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Ares, Hephaestus, Hermes, and either Hestia or Dionysus.
What are Ancient Greece's achievements?
They are biology, geography, government, medicine, theater, architecture, literature, sports, mathematics and astronomy.
How many types of Ancient Greek governments were there?
There were 4:
Tyranny, Oligarchy, Monarchy and Democracy.
Who took after Greece after Alexander the Great did?
Julius Caesar ( Roman Empire ).