Vocabulary
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Geographic Features of Greece
Life in Ancient Greece
Ancient Greek Government
100
a body of land that has water on 3 sides.
What is a peninsula?
100
Greeks believed ....... was home of the gods and goddesses.
What is Mount Olympus?
100
what 3 major seas surround Greece?
What are the Ionian, Mediterranean, and Aegean seas?
100
according to tradition, the Iliad and the Odyssey were composed by whom?
Who is Homer?
100
what is a monarch?
Who was someone who ruled a monarchy?
200
the large that is south of Greece
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
200
...... was the protector of Athens
Who was Athena?
200
what geographic features surrounded Greece?
What aren Seas?
200
the Iliad portrays events during what war?
What is the Trojan War
200
in direct democracy the citizens meet to decide on what?
What is voting?
300
the most important city of the first Greek civilization.
What is Mycenae?
300
a story that people tell to explain beliefs about their world is called .....
What is a Myth?
300
what direction, (N,S,E,W), is the Aegean sea?
What is East?
300
what is short story usually involving animals, that teches a moral lesson?
What is a fable
300
during times of war, Athenian citizens had to do what?
What is becoming a slave?
400
metal objects invented in Anatolia about 650 BC for use in trade.
What are coins?
400
......... was the ruler of the gods.
Who was Zeus?
400
in Greece mountain cover about, what percentage of land?
What is 75%?
400
the story of Prometheus provides an explanation for how humans came to have what element?
What is fire?
400
citizens who were about 30 years old had to do what?
they had to go serve in the army when they were needed.
500
a narrow strip of land that connects 2 larger masses of land
What is isthmus?
500
the ....... were games that were held every 4 years to honor Zeus.
What is the Olypics
500
in order to get more farm land the Greeks did what?
They founded colonies in other regions.
500
when Pandora opened the jar that Zeus had given her, sickness, greed, and all the other evils escaped. what remained in the jar?
What is Hope?
500
Athenian democracy included a system called what?
What is Ostracism
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