Government
A ______ is a government where one King rules the people.
What is a Monarchy?
A _______ is two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings and/or spelling.
What is a homophone?
Young boys in Sparta started military training at ________ years old.
What is seven (years old)?
A __________ is formed when a city forms an independent state.
How is a city-state formed?
The Ancient Greeks invented the "study of knowledge" called ____________.
What is philosophy?
An ________ is a type of government where a few wealthy people have control
What is an Oligarchy?
Although the Greek city states were very different, they all had ______ in common.
What is language (Greek)?
_______ left their newborn child on the top of a mountain to test their strength.
Who are Spartans?
A __________ piece of land almost entirely surrounded by water or projecting out into a body of water, such as the mainland of Greece.
What is a peninsula?
The __________ is a public open space used for assemblies and markets in ancient Greece.
What is the agora?
According to the Athenian constitution, only ______ were allowed to vote.
Who are free male citizens?
_________ was a great philosopher was sentenced to death for his teachings.
Who was Socrates?
According to Greek Mythology, the __________ sea was named after the King of Athens, Aigeas.
Who was the Aegean sea named after?
The __________ is a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, in Greece, dedicated to the goddess Athena.
What is the Parthenon?
A _____________ is a system of government where all citizens share control.
What is a democracy?
Homer’s epic the Iliad, is about _________.
What was the Trojan War?
______ was surrounded by water.
Who was Athens?
Greece lies on the crossroads of these 3 continents: ________, __________, ___________.
What are Africa, Asia, and Europe?
Every four years, we hold the _________ to commemorate these games introduced by the Ancient Greeks.
What are the Olympics?
__________ is a person wrote extensively (a lot) about democracy in Athens.
Who is Aristotle?
__________ was the main character in Homer's epic the Odyssey.
Who is Odysseus?
_______ had fertile soil and was set between the mountains.
What is Sparta?
According to Greek mythology, _________ was the ruler of the sea.
Who was Poseidon?
__________ democracy is a form of democracy in which people decide on policies directly, as seen in Ancient Greece.
What is direct democracy?