Ancient Greece Vocabulary
A traditional story about gods and heroes that isn't exactly true
What is a myth?
The war between the two city states, Athens and Sparta
What is the Peloponnesian War?
The Olympics
He created to formulation of Pi
Who is Archimedes?
A belief in many gods or goddesses
What is polytheism?
(Polytheistic)
Sparta was organized as a military state in fear of this
What is helots?
A unified fighting formation that was hard to penetrate
What is Phalanx
He founded the school of Stoicism
Who is Zeno?
A belief in only one God
What is monotheism?
The Greek city-states have in common
What are the same religion and same language.
What is the main oath for a Doctor of Medicine
The Hippocratic Oath
The largest known Hellenistic sculpture stood over 100 feet.
What is the Colossus of Rhodes?
A government run by the people who vote:
What is democracy?
The epic poem about the Trojan War
What is the Illad
He was most responsible for bringing Greek culture to the Middle East and Africa
Who is Alexander the Great
They spoke a dialect of Greek and may have been distant relatives of the Bronze Age Greeks
What is the Doians?
The type of government with one king like the one Corinth had
What is a Monarchy?
The type of Government did Athens practiced
What is democracy?
What was one new genre in reading that was started by Ancient Greeks?
Mythology
What are pheasants who are forced to stay on the land they worked?
A government run by two or more leaders who are usually rich business owners or Kings.
What is an oligarchy
Who were the Arts most important to?
Athens
Who is responsible for bringing Athens into its Golden Age
Pericles
He had three ideas for strengthening Athenian Democracy and it is called the ....
What is the Age of Pericles?
A democracy where others are chosen to make decisions for the people:
What is a Representative Democracy?
Who was allowed to partake in education in Athens?
Only Males
Athens and other city states formed this alliance
What is the Delian League?
What beautifies Athens?
A democracy where people vote directly on decisions:
What is a Direct Democracy?
How old was a Spartan boy when he was first taken from his family to begin his military training?
7
What was Plato's School for Philosophy named?
The Academy.
23,000-square-foot building, built to honor the Goddess Athena
Name the two types of plays invented by the Greeks that are funny and sad
What are comedies and tragedies?
What was Sparta's main value/focus?
The military/ war.
Who is Euclid
Who is the father of Geometry?
What is a tragedy?
A high hill with a fortress for protection in the center of Athens?
What is an acropolis?
Who was the biggest enemy of Ancient Greece?
Persians
What was the method called that wanted "Teaching by Questioning"
Socratic Method
He lived in Athens for a time, and pioneered accurate reporting of events.
Who is Herodotus?
The building on the Acropolis that's the temple to Athena:
What is the Parthenon?
What type of government did Sparta have?
Oligarchy
(Two kings)
Who taught the last famous leader of all Greeks named Alexander the Great?
Aristotle
He led troops for so long that they lost their morale. They marched and fought for 11 years and 11,000 miles
Who is Alexander the Great?
The 'shoulder-to-shoulder' military formation invented by the Greeks
What is the Phalanx?
What did they call the gathering where the citizens met to debate issues in Athens?
The Assembly
Which leader was considered the father of democracy and tried to spread democracy across Greece?
Pericles
Who is Plato?