Vocabulary, Terms, & People
Rule by a few powerful people
What is an Oligarchy?
These are the characteristics of Epic poetry.
What are describing the deeds of heroes and tales of adventure?
Name the Greek root and it's definition for the following word: microscopic - very small.
What is "micros" meaning small.
These have inspired artists and writers for thousands of years.
What are Greek Myths?
This description best summarizes the geography of Ancient Greece.
What is rocky and mountainous?
The people who have the right to participate in government.
What are citizens?
These are the two types of government that existed in Greece prior to democracy.
What are oligarchy and tyrant?
Name the Greek root and it's definition for the following word: biology - study of life
What is "bio" meaning life?
The Greeks loved to tell stories of these people.
What are heroes who had special abilities and faced terrible monsters?
The citizens in early democracy voted by doing this.
What is raising their hands?
Stories that teach lessons.
What are fables?
Draco, a leader in Greek government, did this during his reign.
What is creating strict laws to prevent a government overthrow?
Name the Greek root and it's definition for the following word: monarchy - rule by a single person.
What is "mono" meaning single?
This is the type of democracy in the United States, which was developed from the democracy in Ancient Greece.
What is a representative democracy?
This best describes the difference between Cleisthenes and Peisistratus.
What is that Cleisthenes believed in democracy.
A person who rules alone, typically through military force.
What is a tyrant?
What are city-states?
Name the Greek root and it's definition for the following word: oligarchy - a few people in power.
What is "oligos" meaning few.
This is why citizenship was important in Athens.
Because citizens were the ones who participated in the government.
According to Greek mythology, this is why there are different seasons.
The name for a Greek city-state.
What is a polis?
The Minoans and Mycenaeans had this in common.
What is trading around the Mediterranean and ending because of volcanic activity?
Name the Greek root and it's definition for the following word: matriarch - a female ruler or leader.
What is "archos" meaning ruler?
This would have been how Greek society developed if there were no mountains separating them.
What is more unified?
Because travelling by land in Greece was difficult, the Greeks did this.
What is became expert ship builders.