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.

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