Vocab
Cities
Geography
Achievements
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
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?
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?
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?
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
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.
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?
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.