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Maps
100
A landform that is mostly surrounded by water and influenced Greek settlement patterns.
What is a peninsula?
100
A belief system in which people worship many gods and goddesses, like the ancient Greeks.
What is polytheistic?
100
The field of study made famous by Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.
What is philosophy?
100
The Athenian reformer who outlawed debt slavery and expanded citizenship.
Who was Solon?
100
The Persian king who attacked Greece after Greeks supported a rebellion.
Who was Darius?
100
The main reason Greeks established colonies around the Mediterranean.
What is to increase wealth through trade and support population growth?
100
The city-state where women had more rights and freedoms.
What is Sparta?
100
The mixing of Greek ideas with other cultures after Alexander’s death.
What is Hellenistic culture?
100
A
What is the Aegean Sea?
200
Natural features that protected Greek communities but made farming difficult.
What are mountains?
200
An epic poem about gods and heroes that did not serve as a religious rulebook.
What is The Iliad?
200
The two types of plays invented by the ancient Greeks.
What are comedy and tragedy?
200
The leader who changed Athens’ constitution and helped establish democracy.
Who was Cleisthenes?
200
The Persian War battle where a small Greek force bravely fought to the death.
What is the Battle of Thermopylae?
200
Three major goods produced and traded by ancient Greece.
What are olives, pottery, and wine?
200
Citizen-soldiers who fought in Greek armies.
Who were hoplites?
200
The reason modern countries use representative governments instead of direct democracy.
What is large population size?
200
C
What is the Ionian Sea?
300
This geographic feature encouraged fishing, trade, and travel throughout Greece.
What is the sea?
300
The group name for the major gods and goddesses in Greek mythology.
Who are the Olympians?
300
The author of The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
300
The Athenian governing body where citizens debated and voted on laws.
What was the Assembly?
300
The main cause of the Peloponnesian War.
What is Athens becoming too powerful?
300
The silver coin used as money in many ancient Greek city-states to trade goods and services.
What is the drachma?
300
The reason Spartan boys were given limited food during training.
What is to make them tough and disciplined?
300
The reason historians call Alexander “the Great.”
What is creating a vast empire quickly?
300
B
What is Crete?
400
The reason Greek communities developed independently rather than forming one united country.
What is isolation caused by mountains and seas?
400
The reason Greeks traveled to Delphi to consult the Pythia.
What is to ask about their futures and destinies?
400
The Greek doctor who created an oath still used as a model for medical ethics.
Who is Hippocrates?
400
The statesman who supported democracy, rebuilt the Acropolis, and expanded Athenian power.
Who was Pericles?
400
The reason Sparta won the Peloponnesian War.
What is Persian funding of the Spartan navy?
400
Three ways how control of the sea helped the Greek economy.
What is trade, fishing, and travel?
400
The civilization known for walled fortresses and the Trojan War.
Who were the Mycenaeans?
400
The role of women in Sparta compared to Athens.
What is more rights and physical training?
400
D
What is Athens?
500
The civilization known for expert shipbuilding and Mediterranean trade networks.
Who were the Minoans?
500
The Greek god whose powers included the sky and thunder.
Who is Zeus?
500
The historian who wrote about the Persian Wars.
Who is Herodotus?
500
A ruler who seized power illegally but sometimes improved life through reforms.
What is a tyrant?
500
The empire conquered by Alexander the Great.
What is the Persian Empire?
500
The enslaved group in Sparta that farmed the land.
Who were the helots?
500
The period of Greek history with few written records.
What is the Dark Age?
500
The five events of the ancient Olympic pentathlon.
What are long jump, discus, footrace, javelin, and wrestling?
500
D
B
What is Mount Olympus?
What is Macedonia?
600
The large body of water located south of Greece, near Africa, that connected Greek city-states through trade, travel, and cultural exchange.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
600
The goddess of wisdom and battle strategy honored at the Parthenon.
Who is Athena?
600
The historian who wrote about the Peloponnesian War.
Who is Thucydides?
600
The city-state that became the world’s first democracy.
What is Athens?
600
The reason Alexander ended his military campaign.
What is his army refused to continue?
600
The military strength Athens was best known for.
What is a powerful navy?
600
The military strength Sparta was best known for.
What is a strong land-based army?
600
The correct chronological order of Greek historical eras.
What are Minoan, Mycenaean, Dark Age, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic?
600
A
What is Sparta?