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?

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