Greek Geography
Name 3 Seas that border Greece
What are Ionian Sea, Mediterranean Sea and Aegean Sea?
A fortress at the high point of a polis is called this.
What is an acropolis?
Name the two Leagues involved in the Peloponnesian War.
Who are Sparta and Athens?What are the Peloponnesian League and the Delian League?
This Greek author wrote the epics The Illiad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
What people are considered the FIRST Greeks?
Who is the Mycenaeans?
Greece is made up of more than a thousand islands and a mainland that is surrounded by water on 3 sides called a
What is a peninsula?
This great Athenian leader promoted democracy all across Greece. He died of plague during the Peloponnesian War.
Who is Pericles?
Spartan life was dominated by this.
What is the army?
What is physical training?
What is discipline?
This man was an aristocrat until he helped overthrow the government. He is considered the "Father of Democracy".
Who is Cleisthenes?
This is the type of government where the citizens rule and hold the power.
What is a democracy?
Because of all the surrounding seas, the Greeks became this...
(Name two occupations)
What are sailors, shipbuilders and/or traders?
The type of democracy that existed in ancient Athens. Each person's vote affected the final outcome
(different from our USA democracy)
What is a direct democracy?
A military formation used where hoplites march and fight side by side, locking their shields.
What is a phalanx?
A famous Greek author, this man was famous for writing fables that taught children a lesson.
Who is Aesop?
In Ancient Greece there were many city-states. This word is another name for city-state.
What is a polis?
Greece city-states were isolated and had little farm land. Name a mountain range in Greece that caused this problem.
What are the Pindus Mountains?
Athens was the birthplace of democracy with the right to participate in government. Name the word that means a person with the right to participate.
What is a citizen?
What polis gave women the most rights than other city-states in Greece?
Who are the women of Sparta?
A famous Greek philosopher who taught Plato. He taught his students to think through questioning. He was charged with corrupting the young and sentenced to death.
Who is Socrates?
Name the type of government where only a few people hold all the power.
What is an oligarchy?
This island is the one that Minoans had control over before the volcanic eruption that weakened their society.
What is the island of Crete?
A gathering in Athens to meet, debate and discuss issues and eventually vote was called this.
What is an assembly?
A Spartan boy was allowed to steal food from this Greek marketplace as long as he wasn't caught.
What is an agora?
This famous Greek philosopher was a student of Plato. He taught that people should live lives of moderation and believed that happiness is a way of life.
He also was the tutor for Alexander the Great.
Who is Aristotle?
A partnership or agreement to work together to help each other is called....
What is an alliance?