Vocabulary
Geography
Government
People
Miscellaneous
100
Greek city-state
What is polis
100
land
What is mountainous peninsula
100
The type of government the United States has
What is representative democracy
100
Famous for his fables
What is Aesop
100
Name the two earliest Greek civilizations
What is Minoan and Mycenaean
200
rich landowners
What is aristrocrats
200
climate
What is mild, warm
200
The form of democracy in ancient Greece was different from our current form of democratic government because
What is voting took place on broken pieces of pottery in ancient Greece
200
Brilliant elected leader who led the Athens government
What is Pericles
200
Three requirements to be a Greek citizen
What is male, land owning, free native-born
300
A body of stories about gods and heroes that try to explain how the world works
What is mythology
300
soil
What is rocky soil, not great for crops
300
Greece is a ___________ democracy
What is direct
300
Greek leader who would not approve of the type of democracy found in the United States
What is Draco
300
Name three ways that the Olympics were different in Ancient Greece from Modern Day
What is few events, Greece (only there), only men compete, compete individually, crown of olive leaves to winner
400
Another name for marketplace
What is agora
400
Greeks were independent because
What is mountains and seas divided them
400
Describe the difference between a direct and representative democracy
What is Direct Democracy - vote directly for a leader Representative Democracy - you elect representatives to vote for you
400
Greeks visited the oracle to ask this god questions
What is Apollo
400
Name three activities that took place in the agora
What is political meetings, religious gatherings, bought and sold goods
500
High hill upon which a Greek fortress was built
What is acropolis
500
Name the three seas surrounding Greece
What is Ionian, Mediterranean, and Aegean
500
Name the 2 greatest city-states and the kind of government each had
What is Athens - democracy and Sparta - oligarchy
500
Homer wrote __________ and ____________
What is Iliad and Odyssey
500
Name two effects mountains had on Greeks
What is little farmland, villages and towns separated from each other, travel difficult, little contact between towns
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