Early Greeks
The ancient Greeks started the Olympic Games for this reason.
What is as a religious festival to honor Zeus, and to promote peace between city-states?
Their form of government in which the power is in the hands of the people.
What is a democracy?
The culture Alexander spread through his conquests.
What is Greek culture?
Athletic contests held every four years to honor their gods.
What are the Olympics?
The god of the sea, earthquakes, horses, and waters.
Who is Poseidon?
What were the cultural interests of Athens?
What is learning and the arts?
The age boys left their family to go to the army camp to begin training as a soldier.
What is seven?
In case one died in battle, the other could lead the army.
Why did Sparta have two kings?
The name of Alexander’s horse.
What is Bucephalus?
The Lincoln Memorial Is based on this.
What is the Parthenon?
The god/goddess that Athens was named after.
Who is the goddess Athena?
Word used today to describe something difficult that requires you, to be strong in body and mind and that takes a great deal of self-discipline.
What is Spartan?
The terrain of ancient Greece (describe the land).
What is rocky?
The structure that Dion described as “the most beautiful spectacle” in Athens.
What is the Parthenon?
The type of society the City-State of Sparta was called.
What is “a closed society?
Alexander said he was leaving his empire to this general.
Who is the strongest?
The name of Myron’s famous statue.
What is The Discus Thrower?