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The Birthplace of _______ Civilization.
What is Western?
Shepherds still tend their flocks on the rocky hillsides of hundreds of remote _______.
What are Islands?
Greek religion slowly grew and developed over _______ of years.
What are thousands?
Zeus was the _______ of the gods and ruled the sky and stormy weather.
What is king?
Several temples in Athens stood on the rocky hills of acropolis, "high ________".
What is city?
The first Olympic Games took place in ancient _______ in the year 776 B.C.
What is Greece?
The people created the world's first _______ government.
What is Democratic?
Because of the rugged geography of Greece the city-states were _______ from one another.
What is isolated?
Religion was mainly taught through _______ _______called myths.
What are folk tales?
_______, the goddess of wisdom.
What is Athena?
The name of the famous temple in Greece was called _______.
What is Parthenon?
Olympic _______ is still lit in Olympia and then is carried by runners to wherever the games are being held.
What is torches?
The first _______ Games took place in ancient Greece.
What is Olympic?
Because city-states were isolated, they rarely united under a single _______.
What is government?
The gods and goddesses were believed to come from the snow-covered peaks of _______ _______.
What is Mount Olympus?
The Greek gods were thought to be a lot like _______ beings.
What is human?
The people of Athens enjoyed a typical Greek feast of meat, _______, grapes, cheese, figs, bread, and wine.
What is olives?
Fires burned 24 hours a day among the alters were the statues of the _______ of past Olympic Games.
Who are the winners?
The civilization of ancient Greece has a border of _______ .
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
A Greek city-state was nothing more than a tiny _______ made up of a single city and the lands and villages that surround it.
What is a country?
The ancient Greeks thought that Olympian gods were _______
What is immortal?
The ancient Greeks obtained a god's advice was by asking a strange women called an "_______".
What is Oracle?
Democracy is a Greek word that means " government by the _______".
What is people?
All around them grew the wild _______ _______that were sacred to Zeus.
What are olive trees?
Greece is a place where _______ _______spring from fields of wildflowers.
What are Olive trees?
Each city-state had its own system of government, its own _______, and its own _______.
What are laws and government?
The Greek gods were believed to be immortal, that is, that they could live _______.
What is forever?
Ordinary _______ weren't allowed inside to worship inside a temple.
What is people?
The Athenian democracy did not allow _______ to vote.
What is women?
The temple was ruined/destroyed by a powerful _______.
What is earthquake?