VOCABULARY
GEOGRAPHY
CIVILIZATIONS
PEOPLE
POTPOURRI
100
Place where Greeks met, traded, and talked business
What is the AGORA
100
body of land surrounded on three sides by water
What is a peninsula?
100
young boys were trained to be soldiers
Who are the Spartans?
100
Ruler of all gods and goddesses; thunderbolt was his symbol
Who is Zeus?
100
Narcisstic warrior and king who spread Greek culture to a large portion of the world
Who is Alexander?
200
large walled area on a hill where citizens would go for safety
What is the acropolis
200
a large group of small islands
What is an archipelago?
200
invented democracy
What is Athens?
200
ancient story teller known for teaching morals
Who is Aesop?
200
Flew too close to the sun, the wax on his wings melted, and he drowned in the sea.
Who is Icarus?
300
Form of government where people vote to make decisions
What is a democracy?
300
narrow body of land that connects two larger bodies of land
What is an isthmus?
300
existed mostly on the island of Crete
Who are the Minoans?
300
Demeter's daughter who live half of the year with Hades
Who is Persephone?
300
200 m race, long jump, discus, wrestling, and javelin throwing
What is a pentathlon?
400
New culture that combined Greek ideas with African and Asian tradition
What is Hellenism?
400
Greece's largest island
What is Crete?
400
first civilization in Europe
Who are the Minoans?
400
Alexander's teacher
Who is Aristotle?
400
comedy, tragedy, satire
What are the three types of plays in ancient Greek theater?
500
Greek word for a city-state
What is a polis?
500
Place where ships find a sheltered area along a coast?
What is a harbor?
500
epic poems by Homer about Mycenaean heroes
What are the Illiad and the Odyssey?
500
Leader of Athens around 450 B.C. We studied his famous Funeral Speech
Who is Pericles?
500
three column styles originating in ancient Greek architecture
What the Doric, the Ionic, and the Corinthian?
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