Geography
there are many of these in Greece making travel difficult
What are mountains?
A long poem telling of the adventures of heroes
What is an epic?
Rule by citizens
What is democracy?
center for the arts and education
What is Athens?
the author of the Illiad and the Odyssey
Who is Homer?
Main crops of Greece
What are olives, grapes, and wheat?
Having to do with the sea, shipping and sailing
What is maritime?
Severe, comes from Spartan military
What is spartan?
What is Sparta?
the two types of Greek drama
What are comedy and tragedy?
distant lands settled by Greeks and used for trade
What are colonies?
A Greek city and surrounding lands
What is a polis?
A ruler who takes power by force
What is a tyrant?
women had more rights in this city-state
What is Sparta?
used to explain a natural event
What are myths?
reasons why the sea was important to ancient Greeks
What are transportation and trade?
Government by people having the highest position in a society
What is aristocracy?
A story expressing a culture’s beliefs
What is a myth?
The two opposing sides in the Peloponnesian War
What are Athens and Sparta?
they acted like humans, fell in love, and played tricks on each other
Who are gods and goddesses?
type of landform that Greece is
What is a peninsula?
Person who paid for many events
What is a sponsor?
Special site where Greeks believed gods were housed
What is a shrine?
the first type of democracy in Athens
What is direct democracy?
son of Phillip II, responsible for spreading Greek culture throughout Persai
Who is Alexander the Great?