Athens
This is the system of government which Athens is known for inventing.
What is democracy?
Ancient Greeks grew these crops because land was too hilly to create large farms.
What are grapes for wine and olives for oil?
This is the thing Sparta valued above all other things.
What is the military strength to protect Sparta?
This is a system of government where a small group of wealthy elite make the laws and rule the people.
This person is known for the method of teaching he created that is based on questioning
Who is Socrates?
The Athenians were able to excel in this way because they developed near the sea.
What is develop a strong navy?
These are the two seas on either side of Greece.
What are the Aegean and the Ionian?
This is the system of government Sparta used at its height.
What is military oligarchy?
This is what a democracy is.
What is a system of government where the power of lawmaking is in the hands of the people?
This is the study of the design of buildings
What is architecture?
What is an adult male (18+) who was born in Athens?
These are the animals which were indigenous (lived naturally in) to the hills and mountains of ancient Greece.
What are goats and sheep?
Sparta felt the need to develop a strong military for this reason.
What is to protect their rich farmland and to prevent a helot uprising?
What is a king or a queen?
Greek citizens like Archimedes and Pythagoras were known for developing ideas and theories in these areas of study.
What are math and science?
This was the role of women in ancient Athens.
What is they were not allowed to participate in the government, and their responsibilities were to spend time with their mothers learning to manage things in their home?
These are two ways the many Greek city-states dealt with not having rich farmland.
What is conquering other regions and establishing colonies and developing good trade relationships with other civilizations?
This was the role of women in ancient Sparta.
What is they were trained to read and write and in military strategy?
What is the population of citizens votes for/elects people to represent them in the process of making laws.
Sculptures carved during the Classical Period are known for this.
What is being extremely realistic?
This is how the lawmaking system worked in Athenian Democracy.
What is the Council of 500 randomly selected citizens writes/proposes laws and the Assembly of the first several thousand people votes to approve or deny those laws?
These are the ways that geography influenced the Persian Wars.
What are
1) the sea was too dangerous for Persian Ships to cross?
2) the hills made travelling with a large army slow work?
3) their knowledge of the geography helped them strategize to fight in a canyon?
This is how the government worked in Sparta at its height.
What is the Gerousia (60+ yrs old male citizens) writes and proposes laws. The Apella (30+ yrs. old male citizens) votes to approve or deny them, but usually approves them.
This is the difference between a direct democracy and a representative democracy.
What is representative democracies have the population vote for people to represent them, but direct democracies let any citizen participate in lawmaking directly?
This is the name of the family that Ancient Greeks believed lived at the top of Mount Olympus.
Who are the Olympians?