Ancient Greece Vocab
Ancient Greek Cities
Ancient Greece Geography
Ancient Greece Achievements
100
A traditional story that is made up and usually teaches a lesson
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
100
Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Homer
200
What is another name for a city-state?
Polis
200
True or false, Greece valued order and beauty.
True
200
Where is the home of the Gods
Mt. Olympus
200
Someone or something that can predict the future
What is an Oracle?
300
A type of leadership where only a few wealthy people or merchants run the government.
What is an oligrachy?
300
Who was the patron goddess of Athens
Athena
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?
400
True or False a Slave could buy themselves out of slavery in Ancient Greece
What is true
400
This happens at the Oracle Temple at Delphi.
Asking the gods a question.
400
What is the Agora?
Public space in Ancient Greece
400
A commander in the army at 16 and a ruler at the age of 20.
Alexander the Great
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
Greeks grew plants that did not require much of this.
What is land or water.
500
This is the name given to the peninsula which extends off the bottom part of Greece
a) Argos
b) Corinth
c) Peloponnesus
d) Athens
e) Megara
What is the c) Peloponnesian Peninsula
500
What was one new Genre that Ancient Greek Literacy/Plays brought forth?
Comedy, History, or Tragedy
600
The word "Hellenistic" is...
What is the culture Alexander the Great Spread which is a mix of Greek with local traditions.
600
Which city-state were the Arts most important too?
Athens
600
A citadel or fortified part of an ancient Greek city, typically built on a hill. (marketplace)
What is the Acropolis?
600
These are three crops grown/harvested in ancient Greece
What is grapes, olives, wheat, barley, and figs.
700
The type of democracy where a person is chosen or appointed to act or speak for another or others.
representative Democracy
700
Who was allowed to partake in education in Athens?
Only Males
700
The three bodies of water that surround the peninsula of Greece are:
Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, Mediterranean Sea
700
Every four years, a competition of games for Greek athletes took place in Olympia to honor ______________. This was the beginning of the Olympic games.
Zeus
800
Type of government where the leader takes the power.
Tyranny
800
True/False A oligarchy allows the people to have the most participation in their government.
False
800
80% of Greeks land is covered in these.
What are mountains?
800
Aristotle's writings strongly influenced the writing of the United States Constitution.
True
900
The definition of the word Helot
A captured person enslaved by the Spartans
900
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?
900
Identify this body of water
What is the Ionian Sea?
900
True or False Aristotle taught Alexander the Great.
true
1000
The economy of Sparta was based on trade.
False
1000
________________ wanted to make Athens more democratic.
Who is Pericles?
1000
What country was the center of the Persian Empire?
What is Iran?
1000
This architectural feature was used through out Greece and is still used in important building in the U.S. today.
What are columns?