Ancient Greece Vocab
Ancient Greek Cities
Ancient Greece Geography
Ancient Greece Achievements
Ancient Greece Gods/myths
Ancient Greece Timeline
100
This is a Polis
What is a city state?
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 and dry with valleys and some rivers (surrounded by seas on three sides)?
100
Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Homer
100
Belief in more than 1 god
What is polytheism?
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
A type of leadership where only a few wealthy people or merchants run the government.
What is an oligrachy?
200
What did are 3 things city states have in common?
Slavery, women being low status, same religion and language
200
Where is the home of the Gods
Mt. Olympus
200
Long narrative or story describing a hero's adventures
What is an epic?
200
This Greek hero was pierced by an arrow in the Trojan War
Who is Achilles
200
Where was the Minoan civilization found?
On the island of Crete
300
True or False a Slave could buy themselves out of slavery in Ancient Greece
What is true?
300
This was written on the entrance to the Oracle Temple at Delphi.
"Know Thyself?
300
This is the body of water between Greece and Turkey
What is the Aegean Sea?
300
What was one new Genre that Ancient Greek Literacy/Plays brought forth?
Comedy or Tragedy
300
This Greek God emerged fully formed from Zeus' head and was the chief God of Athens
Who is Athena
300
What poet wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Who is Homer?
400
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?
400
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?
400
What is the Agora?
Public space in Ancient Greece
400
These are three crops grown/harvested in ancient Greece
What is grapes, olives, wheat, barley, and figs.
400
Who did the Greeks call the god of the Underworld?
Who is Hades?
400
Between what years did the Greek City States Rise
a)700-336 B.C.
b)350-100 B.C.
d) 700-336 B.C.E.
500
Cruel and oppressive government or rule
Tyranny
500
Which city-state were the Arts most important too?
Athens
500
This is the name given to the peninsula which extends off the bottom part of Greece
a) Argos
b) Corinth
c) Peloponnesian
d) Athens
e) Megara
What is the c) Peloponnesian Peninsula
500
These are the 3 types of Columns the greeks were known for inventing
What is Doric Ionic Corinthian?
500
Who was the goddess of the hunt and of wild animals?
Who is Artemins
500
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?
600
The definition of the word Helot
A captured person enslaved by the Spartans
600
Who was allowed to partake in education in Athens?
Only Males
600
A citadel or fortified part of an ancient Greek city, typically built on a hill.
What is the Acropolis?
600
Known as knowers these people provided higher education to citizens and rejected the idea that gods and goddesses influenced human behavior
Who are Sophists?
600
A traditional story and they aren't exactly true
Myth
600
The 1st Greek Olympics were held in this year
)
a) 776 B.C.
b) 700 A.D.
What is 776 B.C.
700
The greek word used to describe a Greek soldier/infantry
What is a hoplite
700
Please identify 2 Greek City States
What is Sparta, Athens, Delphi, Thebes, Argos, Corinth, Megara, Ithaca, Olympia?
700
What ancient civilization is represented by these ruins/photos. They were the first to arise in ancient Greece.
Who are the Minoans?
700
Name this Greek and the city state he led
Who is Pericles and he led Athens?
700
Who was famous for his fables that were used to teach lessons?
Who is Aesop?
700
How did the mountains and the seas keep Greece from being unified?
They separated the city-states and made travel difficult. Each city-state became fiercely independent.
800
What was the Hellenistic Era
A time when Greek culture spread to Southwest Asia
800
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?
800
Identify this body of water
What is the Ionian Sea?
800
The type of democracy where a person is chosen or appointed to act or speak for another or others (found in Athens)
Representative Democracy
800
What stories did the Greeks use to express their religious beliefs?
Mythology
800
The Age of Pericles is known as the Age of what?
a) war and poverty
b)creativity and learning
b)creativity and learning