The geography of Greece
Life in ancient Greece
City states and democracy
Sparta and Athens
Vocabulary
100
What is a body of land that was water on three sides?
What is peninsula
100
What did the Greeks believe was the home of the major gods?
What is Mount Olympus
100
What area was the center of city life?
What is an agora?
100
Who were people that were defeated by Sparta and were forced to give Sparta half there crops?
What is Helots
100
What is a peloponnesus?
What is a peninsula that forms the southeastern part of Greece
200
What is the large sea that is south of Greece?
What is the Mediterranean Sea
200
The Olympic games were held every four years in honor of who?
What is Zeus
200
What were the largest city states in Ancient Greece?
What is Athens and Sparta?
200
What were buildings that served as housing for boys being trained in the military?
What is barracks
200
What are the Olympics?
What is games held every 4 years
300
What is the most important city of the first Greek civilization?
What is Mycenae
300
The lliad portrays events during what?
What is Trojan War
300
What is a city state?
What is a political unit made up of a city and its surrounding lands
300
What government developed in Athens over time?
What is direct democracy
300
What is polis?
What is a Greek word for city states
400
Whats a metal object invented in Antalonia in about 650 b.c.?
What is coins
400
What are long poems that tell stories of ancient heroes are called what?
What is epics
400
What was the earliest form of government in Greece?
What is monarchy
400
What did Spartan society except of Spartan women?
What is to be strong physically and mentally
400
What is helots?
What is enslaved people of Sparta
500
What is the small sea that is east of Greece?
What is Aegaen
500
A story that people tell to explain beliefs about their world is called what?
What is myth
500
What is an acropolis?
What is a fortified hilltop
500
How were boys of wealthy Athenian families educated?
What is to study logic and public speaking
500
What is Athens?
What is a city state of ancient Greece, noted for its democratic form of goverment
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