Ancient Greece Vocabulary
A traditional story about gods and heroes that isn't exactly true
What is a myth?
The leader for Athens in the Persian War
Themistocles
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).
The Olympics
God of Thunder
Who is Zeus
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?
What is land surrounded by water on three sides called?
A peninsula.
Athens survived the first year when Sparta cut off their food and supplies
What is a 4 mile walled road to its port city?
God of the Ocean
who is Poseidon
A belief in only one God
What is monotheism?
The Greek city-states have in common
What are the same religion and same language.
Since Ancient Greece didn't have a major river for resources, what did the sea provide for them?
Trade & travel.
What is the main oath for a Doctor of Medicine
The Hippocratic Oath
A government run by the people who vote:
What is democracy?
They were considered citizens in Athens
What are free males born in Greece?
Where did the original Greeks come from
the island of Crete
Pythagorus
Developed the Pythagorean Theorem in mathematics
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?
Where were the Olympics held?
Olympia
What was one new genre in reading that was started by Ancient Greeks?
Mythology
God of Wisdom
Athena
Leader of the Spartans during the Persian War
Leonidas
Which city state was the Arts most important to?
Athens
What made farming difficult in Greece?
There were only a few rivers and the soil was rocky.
Xerxes was here when the Battle of Salamis took place because he was confident Persia would win
What is on a throne placed on a hill overlooking the battle?
Goddess of Love
Aphrodite
A democracy where others are chosen to make decisions for the people:
What is a Representative Democracy?
In which war did the Myceneans hide inside a wooden horse?
Trojan War
What continent is Greece on?
Europe
Athens and other city states formed this alliance
What is the Delian League?
Goddess of Hunting
Artemis
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 were the peninsulas of Attica and Peloponnesus attached by?
The Isthmus of Corinth
Who is the leader who brought Athens into the Golden Age?
Pericles
God of Archery and Music
Apollo
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.
What sea is east of Greece?
The Aegean Sea
What did the teacher Socrates try and get people to do?
Think for themselves and question the way things are.
Messenger God
Hermes
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
Where did the Minoans build a palace?
the city of Knossos
What was the method called that wanted "Teaching by Questioning"
Socratic Method
Goddess of Family
Hestia
The building on the Acropolis that's the temple to Athena:
What is the Parthenon?
What type of government did Sparta have?
Dual Monarchy
What sea is south of Greece?
Mediterranean Sea
Which student of Socrates wrote a book about political science called "The Republic"
Plato
God of Wine
Dionysus
The 'shoulder-to-shoulder' military formation invented by the Greeks
What is the Phalanx?
What was the final test for a Spartan boy to become a warrior?
Killing a Helot
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.
Which leader was considered the father of democracy and tried to spread democracy across Greece?
Cleisthenes
Goddess of Marriage
Hera