Ancient Greece Vocabulary
A government run by the people who vote:
What is democracy?
The war between the two city states, Athens and Sparta
What is the Peloponnesian War?
What is something that Ancient Greece did to keep intruders out?
They built a walled fortress on a hill in the middle of their polis (city).
a historian who wrote about ancient Greece and its culture
Herodotus
A traditional story about gods and heroes that isn't exactly true
What is a myth?
The type of government with one king like the one Corinth had
What is a Monarchy?
The Greek city-states have in common
What are the same religion and same language.
What is land surrounded by water on three sides called?
A peninsula.
What was Plato's School for Philosophy named?
The Academy.
How old was a Spartan boy when he was first taken from his family to begin his military training?
7
A government run by two or more leaders who are usually rich business owners or Kings.
What is an oligarchy
This class of people were considered citizens in Athens
What are free males born in Greece?
Since Ancient Greece didn't have a major river for resources, what did the sea provide for them?
Trade & travel.
What did the teacher Socrates try and get people to do?
Think for themselves and question the way things are.
Who was the biggest enemy of Ancient Greece?
Persians
Name the two types of plays invented by the Greeks that are funny and sad
What are comedies and tragedies?
Who were the Arts most important to?
Athens
What made farming difficult in Greece?
There were only a few rivers and the soil was rocky.
Who taught the last famous leader of all Greeks named Alexander the Great?
Aristotle
The Olympics
A high hill with a fortress for protection in the center of Athens?
What is an acropolis?
Who was allowed to partake in education in Athens?
Only Males
What was the staple crop in Ancient Greece?
Olives
Which leader was considered the father of democracy and tried to spread democracy across Greece?
Pericles
What type of government did Sparta have?
Oligarchy
(Two kings)
The building on the Acropolis that is the temple to Athena:
What is the Parthenon?
What was Sparta's main value/focus?
The military/ war.
How did Greece's mountains and valleys affect life there?
It provided isolation from others and also protection because it was hard to travel through.
a Macedonian king who conquered Greece and made it part of his empire
Alexander
a poet whose works were part of the culture shared by Greece
Homer