The Greeks built _______ instead of one big country.
What is a city-state or polis?
Boys started school at age 7 to learn to fight.
What was Sparta?
The name of the temple dedicated to the Goddes Athena.
What is Parthenon?
The government that the citizens have the power.
What is Democracy?
Stories about gods and goddesses
What are myths?
Participants in the Olympic games.
Who were free men and were born in Greece?
City-State that believed in making a strong military.
What was Sparta?
The God of the sea
Who is Poseiden?
A popular leader who takes over a government using force.
What is a tyrant?
What is mythology?
The protected part of the city where the most famous buildings in Athens are located.
What is Acropolis?
The city-state that believed in the pursuit of knowledge.
What is Athens?
The goddess of wisdom.
Who is Athena?
The government that was found in Sparta.
What was Oligarchy
A philosopher who taught Alexander the Great using the Socratic Method.
Who was Aristotle?
A leader who took over by force.
Who is tyrant?
No 1 person had too much control
What was Athens?
The messenger God
Who is Hermes?
A child was born deformed in Sparta.
It was left on a mountainside to die?
Serious or sad plays
What are tragedies?
A person who loves knowledge and learning.
Who is a philosopher?
Citizens were encouraged to participate in government
Who was Athens
The goddess of the harvest.
Who is Demeter?
The government that was used in Athens.
What was Democracy?
Long story poems.
What are epics?