Ancient Greece was divided into these self-governed areas.
What is a City-State?
100
The form of government where citizens rule themselves.
What is a democracy?
100
He was 20 years old when he became this.
What is the age Alexander the Great became king?
100
The highest mountain in Greece, known today as Mount Olympus.
What is the name of the Mountain the gods lived on?
100
Two of the earliest cultures that developed in Greece.
Who are the Minoans and the Mycenaens?
200
The fortress that stood on a high hill in the City-State.
What is an acropolis?
200
A rich landowner or noble.
What is an Aristocrat?
200
The name of his horse as well as one of the cities he founded.
What is Bucephalus?
200
Had an Eagle as his personal messenger, was the youngest of the original gods, and the Oak was his tree.
Who is the god, Zeus?
200
The Greek City-State developed as a result of being "alone or away from each other."
What is being isolated?
300
The city-state that created its own empire with the use of the Delian League.
What is Athens?
300
A person who had the right to participate in government.
What is a citizen?
300
This military body was developed by Philip II, but used extensively by Alexander in expanding his empire.
What is the phalanx?
300
To think, try to explain, or understand life.
What is philosophy?
300
The sporting event that developed in Ancient Greece and today is held every four years.
What is the Olympics?
400
This marketplace of Greek City-States was the center of Greek life. A place where farmers brought crops to sell, merchants brought goods for others to buy, and was an open area for political and religious assemblies to take place.
What is the Agora?
400
This form of government where a small group of elites held power and ran the country/city-state.
What is an oligarchy?
400
This Ancient Greek philosopher was hired by Philip II to educate Alexander. His ideas on "reason" and "logic" sunk in deeply to help shape how Alexander thought about the world and his future empire.
Who is Aristotle?
400
One of the greatest thinkers, this man believed "people should never stop looking for knowledge" and had a method of teaching named after him.
Who is Socrates?
400
Famous for his writings that were "short stories that taught lessons about life or gave advice on how to live."
Who is Aesop?
500
This war was fought after the Greeks expelled Persia from most of Greece. It was fought between most Greek City-States that threatened to tear all of Greece apart.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
500
This form of government in which officials are elected by the people to participate in government for them.
What is a representative-democracy?
500
After Alexander's death, his empire was divided between his generals. Two of these general emerged with most power and started these empires.
What are the Seleucid and Ptolemaic Empires?
500
"Dark" god that kidnapped his wife, Persephone, his abode was a "killer" place.
Who is the god, Hades?
500
Epic poems, attributed to Homer, that tell of the Trojan war and the journey one man goes on to return home.