Ancient Greece Vocabulary
A traditional story about gods and goddesses that explained how the world came to be.
Myth
What type of government did Athens first practice?
Monarchy
What two geographic features effected how Ancient Greece developed?
Mountains and seas.
What architectural feature did the ancient Greeks create?
Columns
God of Thunder & Lightning
Zeus
Were members of rich families who owned large farms and were politically powerful
Aristocrats
How old do citizens have to be to vote? Even in Ancient Greece
18
The home of the Gods
Mount Olympus
Who was allowed to get an education in ancient Greece?
Only boys
God of the Ocean
Poseidon
The early civilization of sailors and traders that developed on the island of Crete
Minoans
What did both city states have in common? (Athens and Sparta)
Same religion and language, similar systems of government
What kind of land form is Greece?
A peninsula and islands
Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian
God of Wisdom
Athena
What is the Acropolis?
The place where the people in power lived. It served as a cultural, religious, and political center of the city.
What is the Agora?
Public space in ancient Greece
Because it was hard to farm, the Athens became very good at what?
Trading and sailing
Who won at the Battle of Thermopylae?
The Persians
God of Underworld
Hades
This powerful empire attempted to invade and conquer Greece in 3 different battles
The Persians
Name of the war betweens Athens & Sparta
Peloponnesian
The Mycenaeans produced great works of art, built cities and palaces, and traded around which two seas?
Mediterreanean and Aegean
List three ways America is influenced by the Greeks:
Art/Architecture, Democracy, Philosophy/Rational Thinking
God of Archery and Music
Apollo