A traditional story about gods and goddesses
What is a myth?
This is what a person leaves behind when they die
What is a legacy?
This person believed that sickness had natural causes.
Who is Hippocrates?
People who used military force to control the people they conquered
Who are the Spartans?
Special site where the gods were housed.
What is a shrine?
Government that is ruled by the people
What is a democracy?
A market where people would meet and debate.
What is an agora?
This leader built temples to show the growing power in Athens.
Who is Pericles?
This was a major sea battle between the Greeks and the Persians. Mrs. Z thinks it because they ate it all.
What is the Battle of Salamis?
He wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
Body of land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
A time when Greek Culture spread throughout the non-Greek world.
What is the Hellenistic Era?
These were three things Spartan women were trained in.
What are running, wrestling and javelin throwing?
The Greek city-state where democracy began
What is Athens?
A festival to honor the gods and goddesses that still takes place today
What are the Olympics?
Harsh, oppressive ruler
Who is a tyrant?
This is the reason for the fall of the Mycenaeans.
What are earthquakes?
He built a democracy in Athens.
Who is Cleisthenes?
First Civilization to arise in Greece.
Who are the Minoans?
The goddess of war
Who is Athena?
Enslaved workers captured by the Spartans
Who is a helot?
Public speaker who warned the Greeks about the Macedonians
Who is Demosthenes?
This person freed the Greeks from Persian rule
Who is Alexander the Great?
Philip II defeated the Greeks at this battle
What is the Battle of Chaeronea?
King Acrisius was killed by this in the myth Perseus and Medusa
What is a discus?