The different city-states had their own identities and governments. Another name for city-state is?
What is a polis?
100
The person famed for writing down many fables.
Who is Aesop?
100
The capital of the United States?
What is Washington D.C.
100
When all citizens meet as a group to debate and vote directly on issues.
What is direct democracy?
100
This architectural characteristic is frequently borrowed from Greek examples. We see example of these on some buildings in Bucyrus.
What is columns?
200
This type of government means "rule by many".
What is democracy?
200
This is the King of Gods.
Who is Zeus?
200
A history textbook is an example of this type of source.
What is a secondary source?
200
The type of democracy we have in the United States.
What is representative democracy?
200
The name of the ancient sporting event that we borrowed from ancient Greeks and hold every four years.
What is the Olympics?
300
This type of government means "rule by a few".
What is oligarchy?
300
This is another name for the heavens where the gods of Ancient Greece reside.
What is Mt. Olympus?
300
Europe is one of seven.
What is a continent?
300
This is where you find the type of democracy that citizens vote on directly (what place that we have discussed).
What is Athens?
300
The general type of government that we (the United States) borrows from ancient Greece.
What is democracy?
400
Pisastratus was an example of this type of government.
What is tyranny?
400
The two main reason that myths exist.
What is to entertain and explain the unexplainable?
400
When a source does not tell the whole story or both sides of an issue.
What is biased?
400
The only group of people who could vote in Ancient Greece.
What is free male citizens?
400
This race gets its name from the story of a messeger who ran to tell others of victory.
What is the marathon?
500
The father of democracy.
Who is Cleisthenes?
500
The creator of the fables lived as this for much of his life. (job/place in society)
What is a slave?
500
The type of source that Aristotle is when writting about Pisastratus, who ruled 200 years earlier.
What is a secondary source?
500
These are the two law-making bodies where citizens in the U.S. choose who represent them to speak on issues.
What is the House of Representatives and the Senate?
500
These two types of drama were created in ancient Greece. Masks with certian facial depictions famously represent these two. An example of one type is Grownups, and an example of the other type is Titanic.