Geography of Ancient Greece
What was the soil like in Ancient Greece? The soil was ________
dry and rocky
The Greeks created their own alphabet based off the _______________writing system.
Phoenician
Hippocrates was a Greek ________
doctor
What is the name for the belief in many gods?
Polytheism
_____________ (how much land and what kind of crops you grew) determined social status in Greece.
What determined your social class in Ancient Greece?
Agricultural wealth
What animals survived in the dry and rocky soil of Ancient Greece? __________________
sheep, goats, and pigs
The Olympics started as an athletic festival to honor_____.
Zeus
Why was Socrates put on trial?
For having beliefs that went against the government. He did not believe that everything was connected to the gods.
What is the name for the stories that explained how the actions of gods and goddesses affected daily lives and how things came to be in nature and in human life.
Myths
Athena was the Goddess of __________
wisdom
Ionian Sea
Name three events that were in the original Olympic games.
wrestling, long jumping, discus and javelin throwing, boxing, and running.
Plato was a student of Socrates. He taught_____, philosophy, and science.
law
________was the god of thunder and lightning and was the king of all Gods.
Zeus
Who had the right to vote in Ancient Greece?
Men over the age of 18 were allowed to vote, while women and slaves were not.
People in Ancient Greece settled in the __________ between mountains.
valleys
Olympic winners from each city-state were treated as ___________.
heroes
Aristotle studied __________, law, and economics.
astronomy
Sailors often prayed to _________ for protection.
Poseidon
Athens created a direct democracy for Athens. Instead of elected leaders making decisions, the _________got to make decisions directly.
citizens
How did the people of Ancient Greece make their money? What made up their economy?
trading, farming, fishing, sailing,
Popular Greek theaters often told stories that were either ___________or ______________which dealt with issues of Greek life.
tragedies or comedies
Aristotle also broke new ground in the fields of _______ and botany.
zoology
Poseidon was the God of the_______
Sea
Which city-state was the most powerful?
Sparta was the most powerful city-state of Ancient Greece