Ancient Greece Vocab
Ancient Greek Cities
Ancient Greece Geography
Ancient Greece Achievements
Ancient Greece Gods/myths
Europe Geography
Ancient Greece Timeline
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
100
Belief in more than 1 god
What is polytheism?
100
What is this country?
What is Greece?
100
True or False the Minoan Civilization existed around the same time as the earliest Chinese and Indian Societies. (Shang Dynasty and Indus River Valley)
True
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?
200
How many muses were there?
What is nine?
200
Identify this Country
What is Germany?
200
Where was the Minoan civilization found?
On the island of Crete
300
A type of leadership where only a few wealthy people or merchants run the government.
What is an oligrachy?
300
What did are 3 things city states have in common?
Slavery, women being low status, same religion and language
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?
300
This Greek hero was pierced by an arrow in the Trojan War
Who is Achilles
300
Identify this country
What is Austria?
300
During what period did the Minoan Civilization exist during
What is the BRonze Age?
400
True or False a Slave could buy themselves out of slavery in Ancient Greece
What is true?
400
The capital of Crete?
What is Knossos
400
What is the Agora?
Public space in Ancient Greece
400
This was the term used to describe a tragic flaw in a god or hero from Greek Mythology.
What is Hubris?
400
This is the name of the daughter kidnapped by Zeus when he turned into a bull, and taken to the island of Crete where she would give birth to king Minos.
Who is Europa?
400
What peninsula is this called?DAILY DOUBLE
What is the Balkan Peninsula?
400
Which two of sites on this list is not apart of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World
The Library at Alexandria
Great Pyramids of Giza
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon
Statue of Zeus in Olympia
Colossus of Rhodes
The Great Wall of China
The Lighthouse of Alexandria
The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
The Great Wall of China
Library of Alexandria
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
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?
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
500
God of Archery and Music
Apollo
500
Name this country
What is Croatia?
500
This was the capital of the Minoan Civilization in 1800 B.C.E.
What is Knossos?
600
This was the word Greeks used to describe someone having good character
A)Eusebia
B)Ethos
C)Arete
What is Ethos?
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.
What is the Acropolis?
600
These are three crops grown/harvested in ancient Greece
What is grapes, olives, wheat, barley, and figs.
600
Wife of Hades
Who is Persephone?
600
This is the tallest mountain in Europe
What is Mount. Elberus?
600
Identify this Greek God
Who is Atlas?
700
The type of democracy where a person is chosen or appointed to act or speak for another or others (found in Athens)
Representative Democracy
700
Who was allowed to partake in education in Athens?
Only Males
700
Identify this region of Turkey 
What is Ionia?
700
These are the 3 types of Columns the greeks were known for inventing DAILY DOUBLE
What is Doric Ionic Corinthian?
700
This was name of Zeus' 1st wife, who he swallowed when she turned into a fly, also known as the Goddess of prudence.
Who is Metis?
700
What sea is this?
What is the Adriatic Sea?
700
Around what period did the Greek Dark Ages begin?
A) 1800 B.C.E.
B) 700 B.C.E.
C) 0 C.E.
D) 500 C.E.
What is B) 700 B.C.E.
800
The definition of the word Helot
A captured person enslaved by the Spartans
800
Please identify 5 Greek City States
What is Sparta, Athens, Delphi, Thebes, Argos, Corinth, Megara, Ithaca, Olympia?
800
What ancient civilization is represented by these ruins/photos
What is the Minoans?
800
These are the three periods that Ancient Greece could be divided up into
What is Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic
800
This Greek God emerged fully formed from Zeus' head
Who is Athena
800
What strait is the arrow pointing to?
What is the Bosporus Strait?
800
Between what years did the Greek City States Rise
a)2500-1400 B.C.E.
b)1600-1200 B.C.E.
c)1100-750 B.C.E.
d)700-336 B.C.E.
e)350-100 B.C.E.
d) 700-336 B.C.E.
900
Cruel and oppressive government or rule
Tyranny
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
This was the name of the Roman emperor who ended the Olympic games in the year 391 C.E.
A) Pythagoras
B) Theodosius
C) Socrates
D) Euripides
E) Alexander the Great
F) Aristotle
Who is B) Theodosius
900
Goddess of the hearth and fire
Who is Hestia
900
Name this body of water
What is the North Sea?
900
The final period in Greek History during which Greek culture was a mixture of Greek, Middle Eastern, and Asian, that spread during the reign of Alexander the Great and lasted for 300 years until the emergence of the Roman Empire.
What is Hellenistic?
1000
This is the vocabulary word for when the greeks demonstrated greatness in a particular area
whether sports, arts, music, writing etc..
What is Arete
1000
**DAILY DOUBLE**
Name this Greek and the city state he led
Who is Pericles and he led Athens?
1000
What country was the center of the Persian Empire?
What is Iran?
1000
Known as knowers these people provided higher education to citizens and rejected the idea that gods and goddesses influenced human behavior
Who are Sophists?
1000
Identify this Goddess
Who is Iris the fleet-footed messenger of the gods, had her own path down to earth.
Dressed in a gown of iridescent drops, she ran along the rainbow on her busy
errands between Olympus and earth.
1000
**DAILY DOUBLE**Identify this flag
What is Albania?
1000
The 1st Greek Olympics were held in this year
What is 776 B.C.E.