Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Vocabulary 3
Vocabulary 4
100
This word refers to Greece's primary land feature -- land surrounded on 3 sides by water.
What is a peninsula?
100
This is a group of people living in a new territory who have ties to their homeland; the new territory itself.
What is a colony?
100
This is a gathering place, or a marketplace in ancient Greece.
What is an agora?
100
This is a story with the purpose of teaching a lesson.
What is a fable?
200
This is a Greek city-state.
What is a polis?
200
This is a government in which a small group has control.
What is an oligarchy?
200
This is an absolute ruler who is unrestrained by law.
What is a tyrant?
200
This philosophy states that the purpose of life is to live for peace and happiness.
What is Epicureanism?
300
This is a government by the people.
What is a democracy?
300
These were slaves in Sparta.
Who were helots?
300
Zoroastrianism
What is a Persian religion based on the belief in one god?
300
This philosophy states that people should not try to feel joy or sadness.
What is stoicism?
400
representative democracy
What is a form of democracy in which citizens elect officials to govern on their behalf?
400
myth
What is a traditional story that explains the practices or beliefs of a people, or something in the natural world?
400
ritual
What are words or actions that are part of a religious ceremony?
400
This type of geometry focuses on measurement and relationships of "flat" figures -- like points, lines, angles, and surfaces.
What is plane geometry?
500
oracle
What is a sacred shrine where a priest or priestess spoke for a god or goddess?
500
This is a story written in the form of a play.
What is a drama?
500
This is the art of public speaking, made famous by the Sophists.
What is rhetoric?
500
This type of geometry focuses on the dimensions of measurement and relationships of points, lines, angles, surfaces, and solids.
What is solid geometry?
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