Government and Laws
This group in Athens was larger and met regularly to make laws
What is the Assembly?
Sparta valued this above all else.
What is military strength?
Athens is located near this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
A 12-year-old Athenian girl would most likely learn from this person.
Who is her mother?
Greeks believed these gods lived on Mount Olympus.
Who are the Greek gods?
This small group held the most power in Sparta.
What is the council of elders?
Sparta is called this type of government where a small group rules
What is an oligarchy?
This feature made Sparta isolated.
What are mountains?
Athenians used masks in theater because this group acted all roles.
Who are men?
This building was built to honor Athena.
What is the Parthenon?
This Athenian council had 500 members selected to serve
What is the Council of 500?
Spartan women had this right that Athenian women did not
What is owning property?
Athenians got grain by doing this with other regions.
What is trading?
Greek actors used masks mainly so men could do this
What is play multiple roles?
Greeks paused fighting every four years for this event.
What are the Olympic Games?
This man was famous for leading Athens during its Golden Age.
Who is Pericles?
Spartan boys received this type of education.
What is military training?
Athens’ geography helped its economy mainly because it was here.
What is near the sea?
A major reason Athenian students memorized lessons was this.
What is lack of books?
Greek sculptors were known for making these kinds of statues.
What are lifelike statues?
This Athenian practice allowed ordinary citizens to participate directly in decision-making.
What is direct democracy?
This Spartan system trained boys from a young age to become strong soldiers for the state.
What is the agoge (military training system)?
This geographic feature forced Athens to rely heavily on trade for survival.
What is poor farmland/rocky soil?
This explains why Athenian theater used a chorus instead of just individual actors.
What is to help the audience understand and explain the story?
This belief explains why Greeks stopped fighting during the Olympic Games.
What is honoring the gods and creating religious peace/truce?