Ancient Greece Geography
This caused the Greeks to be unable to unite into one powerful empire.
What were mountains?
A City-State who focused on military and practiced oligarchy as a form of government.
What was Sparta?
Alexander the Great's father.
Who was Phillip the II?
Who was Alexander the Great?
A piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
The Greeks relied on trade because of this.
What was "They could not grow much in a rocky soil?"
A city-state would focused on knowledge and practiced democracy as a form of government?
What was Athens?
Alexander the Great came from this "backwards" city-state.
Where was Macedon?
He believed that kings should be wise and a philosopher who also believed that women were equal to men.
Who was Plato?
An unfounded belief based on opinion rather than fact.
What is a bias?
Mountains caused the Greek people to form these instead of one big empire.
What were city-states?
This was the reason why Sparta was so obsessed with fighting.
What was "To protect themselves from the helots, who were Spartan slaves, from revolting?"
Who was Aristotle?
The leader of Athens after the Greco Persian War who helped rebuild the city and gave a famous speech addressing the positives of democracy.
Who is Pericles?
A memory or a physical object that you leave behind.
What is a legacy?
The Greeks relied on these two crops for food and trade.
What were olives and Grapes?
This city-state believed that their children should not only study, but should also play music, and be physically fit.
What was Athens?
Alexander the Great's greatest legacy.
What is "Introducing the world to the Greek culture?"
A philosopher who believed that asking questions would lead to further knowledge and later chose death to prove a point.
Who was Socrates?
A Greek solider.
What is a hoplite?
What were islands?
Children were left on a mountain because of this?
What was, "they were deemed to be weak?"
Alexander the Great's big mistake before he died.
What is "Failed to choose a successor to his empire?"
Considered the Father of History, he wrote about the Greco-Persian War, but was considered bias.
Who is Herodotus?
Another name for a fancy speech, especially for funerals.
What is an oration?