Vocabulary
The highest mountain in Greece, believed by the ancient Greeks to be the dwelling place of the gods.
What is Mount Olympus?
A country made up of peninsulas, islands, and mountain-side city-states.
What is Greece?
What type of government did Sparta have?
What is oligarchy?
Two groups of people that did *not* have the right to vote
What are women and slaves?
What background do tyrants usually have experience in?
What is Military Leadership?
The author of "The Iliad" and "The Odyessy"
Who is Homer?
What continent is Greece in?
What is Europe?
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?
A form of government in which the ruling power is in the hands of one person who is *not* the lawful king or queen, where that power is usually taken by force.
What is Tyranny?
This god was the ruler of all the Greek gods.
Who is Zeus?
A legend or traditional story; often about gods and goddesses and how things came to be
What is a myth?
The peninsula on which Sparta is located.
What is Peloponnesus?
The worship or belief in many gods and/or goddesses.
What is Polytheism?
Greece (Athens, in particular) is the birthplace of this form of government, that the United States uses today.
What is Democracy?
What was a major cause of the Persian War?
The Persians were becoming jealous of Greek power and culture
The center of religious life in Athens; a hill overlooking the city of Athens
What is Acropolis?
This empire lived in the east, and tried to invade Greece.
What is Persia?
One of the most important agricultural exports in Greece.
What are Olives? (or Wine)
A system of government that Greece had during the Mycenaean period, in which the ruling power is in the hands of one person
What is Monarchy?
Who won the Persian War?
Greece
A person who has certain rights and responsibilities in his or her country or community
What is a citizen?
The three seas that surround Greece and its 6,000 islands.
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 system of government where a small group of the richest and most powerful citizens controlled decision making, used by most city-states in the Archaic period.
What is Oligarchy?
What was the name of the first tribe known to inhabit Greece?
The Minoans