Vocabulary
A person who has certain rights and duties in a city-state or nation
What is a citizen?
A country in Southeastern Europe, on the European Continent, bordering Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Turkey.
What is Greece?
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?
Two groups of people that did NOT have the right to vote.
What are women and slaves?
Athenians honored this goddess by killing cattle on the top of the Acropolis.
Who is Athena?
a group of citizens, in an ancient Greek democracy, with the power to pass laws
What is an assembly?
A large mass of land, three sides of which are bordered by water.
What is a "peninsula"?
The Milwaukee Bucks player known as the "Greek Freak".
Who is Giannis Antetokounmpo?
a government in which absolute ruling power is held by a person who is not a lawful king.
What is tyranny?
This god was the ruler of all the Greek gods and goddesses.
Who is Zeus?
A marketplace in ancient Greece
What is an agora?
The peninsula on which Sparta is located.
What is Peloponnesus?
The largest island in Greece.
What is Crete?
Athens is the birthplace of this form of government that the United States uses today.
What is democracy?
The goddess who was known as the goddess of love and beauty.
Who is Aphrodite?
What is the Council of Elders?
The city-state that is surrounded by mountains on 3 sides.
Ms. Kimball's favorite book series that is based in Greek mythology.
What is the Percy Jackson series?
A government in which the ruling power is in the hands of a few people.
What is an oligarchy?
The god born from Zeus's thigh and was the god of wine and plays.
in Athens, a group of 500 citizens chosen to form a council responsible for running the day-to-day business of government
What is the Council of 500?
What are the Mediterranean, Ionian, and Aegean Seas?
An almost-invulnerable Greek god, who died from an arrow in his heel, his only vulnerable spot.
Who is Achilles?
A member of the most powerful class in Ancient Greek society
What is an aristocrat?
This god had a violent temper and was known as the god of war.
Who is Ares?