Physical Geography
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Beliefs and Customs
City-States
100
Most of the mainland of Greece was covered with this physical feature
What is mountains
100
The mainland of Greece is a ________ that sticks out into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is peninsula
100
The ________ were held every year as a part of a festival to honor Zeus.
What is Olympics
100
The Greeks worshiped many gods so their religion would be considered ________.
What is polytheistic
100
This city-state focused everything on building a strong military.
What is Sparta
200
The Greeks needed to set up _________ in other parts of the world in order to have enough farmland.
What is colonies
200
________ is a government in which the citizens make political decisions.
What is democracy
200
To the Greeks, a ________ was a person with the right to take part in ruling the city-state
What is citizen
200
The Greeks believed that the 12 most important gods lived here.
What is Mount Olympus
200
This city-state focused everything on being a good citizen.
What is Athens
300
Most of the travel in Greece had to be done by ________ because of their physical geography.
What is boat
300
The Spartans forced the people they defeated to become slaves called _______
What is helots
300
At age 7, Spartan boys moved into military houses called _______
What is barracks
300
He was the king of all of the Greek gods and goddesses
What is Zeus
300
Tyrants helped the development of democracy in Greece by overthrowing this form of government.
What is oligarchy
400
The Greeks spent a lot of time outdoors because of their ________.
What is climate
400
A blind man named Homer is credited with writing the most famous ________ in Ancient Greece.
What is epic poems
400
A storyteller named Aesop is credited with writing many ________ that used animals to teach moral lessons
What is fables
400
The Greeks created ________ to explain the creation of the world and of human beings.
What is myths
400
This is the type of democracy that they used in Greece because it was easier for everyone to be able to participate in the government.
What is direct
500
Due to the rugged terrain, the ________ became the basic form of government in Greece.
What is city-state
500
In Greek, the word for city-state was ________
What is polis
500
In Greece, a ________ was someone who took power in an illegal way.
What is tyrant
500
Homer's 2 best known epic poems are the Iliad and the ________.
What is Odyssey
500
These are the 3 groups of people who would NOT be considered citizens in Ancient Greece.
What is women, slaves, foreigners
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