Vocabulary
Geography
Trivia
Government
Greek Mythology
100

This term refers to a type of government run by the people, who vote for laws or the people who make them.

What is Democracy?

100
A country in Southeastern Europe, on the European Continent, bordering Abania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Turkey.
What is Greece?
100
A foreigner living in Athens, usually a craftsman or trader.
What is a Metic?
100
Two groups of people that did *not* have the right to vote
What are women and slaves?
100

These star signs include stories of the gods and heroes, along with telling us about our characteristics. Examples: Pisces, Gemini, Leo

What are zodiac signs?

200

This term means a belief system nobody believes in anymore.

What is Mythology?

200
The mountain after which the Olympic games are named.

What is Mount Olympus?

200
A large athletic competition, involving many sports, born in Ancient Greece, in which many city-states participated. It developed into the biggest international athletic competition in the world today.
What are the Olympics?
200

This city-state tried several forms of government before finally settling on a form of direct democracy.

What is Athens?

200

This god was the ruler of all the Greek gods and married Hera. The Olympics were meant to honor him.

Who is Zeus?

300

This class of people in Athens used to be enslaved or laborers but had been freed, but they could not vote.

What are Freedmen?

300

The peninsula on which Sparta is located and the Peloponnesian War is named.

What is Peloponnesus?

300
The worship or belief in many gods and/or goddesses.
What is Polytheism?
300
Greece (Athens, in particular) is the birthplace of this form of government, that the United States uses today.
What is Democracy?
300

The goddess who was the daughter of Cronos and the wife of Hephaestus. She was known as the goddess of love and beauty.

Who is Aphrodite?

400

This means an agreement not to fight, when all the city-states would call peace so they could hold the Olympic Games.

What is a Truce?

400

This is the city along the coast of Asia Minor, where a famous war was fought for 10 years involving lots of famous Greek heroes and a giant horse made of wood.

What is Troy?

400
One of the most important agricultural exports in Greece.
What are Olives? (or Wine)
400
A system of government that Greece had during the Mycenean period, in which the ruling power is in the hands of one person
What is Monarchy?
400

This god was great at machinery and making things, and volcanos exploded whenever he worked in his workshop.

Who was Hephaestus?

500
A person who has certain rights and responsibilities in his or her country or community
What is a citizen?
500

Three of the seas that surround Greece and its 400 islands.

What are the Mediterranean, Cretan, Ionian, and Aegean Seas?

500

These epic poems, made by Homer, told of the Trojan War and the adventurous journey home of one of its heroes Odysseus.

What are the Iliad and Odyssey?

500
A system of government where a small group of the richest and most powerful citizens controlled decision making, used by most city-states in the Archaic period.
What is Oligarchy?
500

This god had a violent temper and was known as the god of war. He was the patron god of Sparta.

Who is Ares?

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