Vocabulary
A Greek city-state like Athens or Sparta
What is a POLIS
The winner of the first Peloponnesian war.
Who is Athens
The cause of independent city states and isolated groups in Greece.
What are mountains and seas significance to Greece.
god of the seas
Who is poseidon
A city-state focused on education, democracy and the arts.
What is Athens
A story by Homer about the Trojan War.
What is the Iliad
The winner of the second Peloponnesian war
Who is Sparta
The island in which the first group settled in Greece, the Minoans
What is Crete
The god of fire.
Who is Hephestus
A Greek philosopher who used a method of questioning to teach his students.
Who is Socrates
A Philosopher
What is a thinker who seeks wisdom and understanding?
This city state allowed more freedoms to women
What is Sparta
Name 3 City-States from Ancient Greece.
EX. Sparta, Athens, Thebes, Delphi, Olympia.
Zeus (2 parts)
god of the sky and the king of the gods
Name one major contribution of Ancient Greece.
EX. Democracy, Theatre, or Philosophy
One of five Spartan leaders who helped rule
What is an Ephor
The city state known for its strong military and strict training
What is Sparta
The name of the Greek building known for its columns and located on the Acropolis
What is the Parthenon
Goddess of Wisdom
Who is Athena
Someone who studied science, logic, and politics and taught Alexander the Great
A Helot
What is a Greek slave forced to farm land in Sparta
This city state is known as the birthplace of democracy
What is Athens
The three seas surrounding Greece
What is the Aegean, Ionian, and Mediterranean Seas
Why were the myths of Greek gods created?
To help explain things in life that humans could not control.
The two different types of theatre performances in Ancient Greece.
What is comedy and Tragedy