Greek Gods
Athletic contests held every four years to honor their gods.
What are the Olympics?
The form of government in which the power is in the hands of the people.
What is a democracy?
What made Greece's land not fertile enough for plentiful farming?
What is the mountains/it was rocky?
What are city-states?
What is independent political units?
A piece of land that is surrounded by water on 3 sides
What is... a peninsula
What is for protection from other city-states (natural barrier)
A fortified hilltop at the center of a Greek city-state used as a last line of defense.
What is an acropolis?
The study of wisdom, knowledge, the truth, and the meaning of life
What is philosophy?
Who were the three great Athenian philosophers in order of their birth?
Who are Socrates, Plato and Aristotle?
What is the climate like in Greece?
What is hot and dry in the summer and warm and wet in the winter.
Name at least 4 city-states.
What is (answers may vary)
A council which assisted the assembly and consisted of 500 members to run daily affairs in the city
What is boule?
Who were metics and did they have citizenship rights?
What is people not born in Athens and no
What makes ancient Greece in an ideal location for its time?
What is... it is in the center of the known world at the time and it is surrounded by 3 seas, making trade easier.
What is the name of the city-center of a city-state where festivals, meetings, and markets occurred?
What is... an agora?
A government ruled by a few powerful citizens
What is an oligarchy
The messenger god
Who is Hermes?
Part of the Athenian government that held the most power. Consisted of all of the voting citizens
What is the Assembly?
Name the 3 seas surrounding Greece
What are the Mediterranean, Ionian, and Aegean Seas?
What do city-states: Have in common and not have in common?
What is... (common: language, culture, religion) and (not in common: politics/government and traditions)
Long, low boats that were very fast and very easy to steer
What is trireme?