Geography
Most of Greece is located on the mainland penninsula. This describes a penninsula
What is a piece of land surrounded by water on 3 sides?
He was chief of the gods.
Who is Zeus?
These are used to hold up a ceiling or other roof structure. (Many buildings in Washington DC have them.)
What are 'columns'?
This is a government ruled by a king or queen. Succession usually went to the eldest son. (think butterfly)
What is a 'monarchy'?
This is how Ancient Greek Democracy impacts our modern day government?
Citizens are able to vote and assemble
This city-state valued Military training above the arts
What is Sparta?
This was the son of Philip II of Macedon.
Who was Alexander (TG)?
This is an island
What is a piece of land completely surrounded by water?
This is the reason the ancients wrote mythological stories
Why they believed the actions of the gods/goddesses explained what they did not understand?
These were early cities that had their own governments and laws.
What are 'city-states'?
Steep mountains kept people from different areas apart from each other. This is how it affected the governments in the city-state
What is that many city-states had very different forms of governments?
These people generally got richer under an Oligarchy form of government
Who are the rich?
This city-state valued education above military training
By conqering all the known world, Alexander spread Greek ideas, religion, and language. This blend of Egyptian, Indian, Persian, and Greek cultures created a brand new called this.
What is Hellenistic Culture?
This is the real mountain where the gods/goddesses were thought to live.
What is Mt. Olympus?
When Demeter's daughter is taken to the underworld to be queen of the dead, it is winter above, as the godess of fertility is sad?
Because there was no 'science' in Ancient Greece, they explained the natural world using these
What are 'myths'?
This is a type of government with only one ruler that took power illegally.
What is a 'tyranny'?
Macedonia's (northern Greece) most famous king
Who was Alexander T.G.?
This city-state's patron goddess was Athena
What is Athens?
This was the moral for the story of 'the lion and the mouse'?
Most Ancient Greek communities grew up in isolation because of the rough terrain. This is what 'isolation' and 'terrain' means
What are 'living separated from others' and 'landscape'?
This is the monster with a human's body and the head of a bull. It is also the name of the person who slayed him.
Who were the Minotaur and Theseus?
This was a benefit of the Greeks colonizing other areas around the Mediterranian Sea.
What is the spreading of Greek culture and ideas?
This type of government is ruled by the people. They elect their leaders by voting. (The United States is one.)
What is a 'decocracy'?
What is, by conquring other lands?
This city-state promoted 'strength' above education
What is Sparta?
To be fable, a story need these 5 elements. (Give me 3)
What are: short, about animals acting like humans, containing a lesson or moral, outside, and they must be fiction?
Most of Greece is mountainous and rocky. This is what farmers had to do to be able to grow crops
What is carve out flat areas in the hills?
This is how the first spider was created
When a girl name Arachne challenged Athena to a 'spinning contest' and won, Athena was so angry she morphed the child?
Because the population of Ancient Greece started growing, the Greeks looked elswhere to live. They started colonizing. This is what 'colonizing' means
What is taking over another area to be used for the parent country's benefit?
This is a govenment ruled by a wealthy few. (The prefix is greek for 'few')
Only landowning men were considered citizens in Ancient Greece. Based on this information, this is what we can infer about women and immigrants
What is that they weren't seen as equals?
This city-state sent 300 of it's soldiers to delay a Persian army 100,000 strong.
Who is Sparta?
This river valley was the furthest extent of Alexander The Great's conquest.
What was the Indus River?