Ancient Greece Vocab
Ancient Greek Cities
Ancient Greece Geography
Ancient Greece Achievements
Ancient Greece Gods/myths
Ancient Greece Timeline
100
A traditional story and they aren't exactly true
Myth
100
Which of the main city states in Ancient Greece focuses more on War
Sparta
100
This is how you would describe the landscape of Greece
What is very mountainous with valleys and some rivers?
100
Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Homer
100
Belief in more than 1 god
What is polytheism?
100
True or False the Minoan Civilization existed around the same time as the earliest Chinese and Indian Societies. (Shang Dynasty and Indus River Valley)
True
200
This is a Polis
What is a city state?
200
In Greek Mythology, the famous Oracle of Delphi was supposedly freed from being kept prisoner by an evil serpent dragon by which Greek God?
What is Apollo?
200
Where is the home of the Gods
Mt. Olympus
200
Someone or something that can predict the future
What is an Oracle?
200
This Greek hero was pierced by an arrow in the Trojan War
Who is Achilles
200
Where was the Minoan civilization found?
On the island of Crete
300
A type of leadership where only a few wealthy people or merchants run the government.
What is an oligrachy?
300
A lover of, or searcher for, wisdom or knowledge; person who regulates his or her life by the light of reason
What is a philosopher?
300
This is the body of water between Greece and Turkey
What is the Aegean Sea?
300
Long narrative or story describing a hero's adventures
What is an epic?
300
This is the name of the daughter kidnapped by Zeus when he turned into a bull, and taken to the island of Crete where she would give birth to king Minos.
Who is Europa?
300
This is the oldest city in Europe which is found in Greece.
What is Mycenae.
400
True or False a Slave could buy themselves out of slavery in Ancient Greece
What is true?
400
Which city-state were the Arts most important too?
Athens
400
This was a Public Market Place in Ancient Greece.
What is the Agora?
400
This was the term used to describe a tragic flaw in a god or hero from Greek Mythology.
What is Hubris?
400
God of Archery and Music
Apollo
400
Which two of sites on this list is not apart of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World
The Library at Alexandria
Great Pyramids of Giza
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Statue of Zeus in Olympia
Colossus of Rhodes
The Great Wall of China
The Lighthouse of Alexandria
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
The Great Wall of China
Library of Alexandria
500
This was a battle strategy where Greek warriors would crouch together to create a wall using their shields. It was eventually adopted by the Romans.
What is a Phalanx?
500
Who was allowed to partake in education in Athens?
Only Males
500
Daily DOUBLE
This is the name given to the peninsula which extends off the bottom part of Greece.
What is the Peloponnesian Peninsula
500
What was one new Genre that Ancient Greek Literacy/Plays brought forth?
Comedy, History, or Tragedy
500
Wife of Hades
Who is Persephone?
500
This was the capital of the Minoan Civilization in 1800 B.C.E.
What is Knossos?
600
The type of democracy where a person is chosen or appointed to act or speak for another or others (found in Athens)
Representative Democracy
600
Please identify 5 Greek City States
What is Sparta, Athens, Delphi, Thebes, Argos, Corinth, Megara, Ithaca, Olympia?
600
What ancient civilization is represented by these ruins/photos
What is the Minoans?
600
These are three crops grown/harvested in ancient Greece
What is grapes, olives, wheat, barley, and figs.
600
This Greek God emerged fully formed from Zeus' head
Who is Athena
600
Between what years did the Greek City States Rise
a)2500-1400 B.C.E.
b)1600-1200 B.C.E.
c)1100-750 B.C.E.
d)700-336 B.C.E.
e)350-100 B.C.E.
d) 700-336 B.C.E.
700
Cruel and oppressive government or rule
Tyranny
700
An Athenian messenger ran 26 miles back to Athens to report the victory over the Persians at the Battle of ______ and died from exhaustion
What is Marathon?
700
Identify this body of water
What is the Ionian Sea?
700
These are the 3 types of Columns the greeks were known for inventing
What is Doric Ionic Corinthian?
700
Goddess of the hearth and fire
Who is Hestia
700
The final period in Greek History during which Greek culture was a mixture of Greek, Middle Eastern, and Asian, that spread during the reign of Alexander the Great and lasted for 300 years until the emergence of the Roman Empire.
What is Hellenistic?
800
The definition of the word Helot
A captured person enslaved by the Spartans
800
Name this Greek and the city state he led
Who is Pericles and he led Athens?
800
What country was the center of the Persian Empire?
What is Iran?
800
He gave us a² + b² = c²
Who is Pythagoras.
800
Identify this Goddess
Who is Iris the fleet-footed messenger of the gods, had her own path down to earth.
Dressed in a gown of iridescent drops, she ran along the rainbow on her busy
errands between Olympus and earth.
800
They divided up Alexander's empire after he died.
Who were his generals.
900
This was the name of the Roman emperor who ended the Olympic games in the year 391 C.E.
A) Pythagoras
B) Theodosius
C) Socrates
D) Euripides
E) Alexander the Great
F) Aristotle
Who is B) Theodosius
