Are Greeks polytheistic (worships many gods) or monotheistic (worships only one god) ?
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Part 1.What is a peninsula?
Part 2. Give me an example of one.
A peninsula is a body of land that is surrounded by water on three sides. An example of one is the Peloponnesus.
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What year did Persia invade Athens?
490 B.C.
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A water clock is used to measure time in the court.
What is the water clock used for?
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What were the two largest city-states in Greece?
Sparta and Athens
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Part 1. Where did the famous gods live?
Part 2. How many of them lived there?
Part 1. They lived on Mount Olympus.
Part 2. 12 of them lived there.
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Part 1. 70-80%
Part 2. 20-30%
Part 1.What percent of mountains covers Greece?
Part 2. What percent of land is actually usable for farmland?
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First, they drew the Persian's towards the center of the Greek line. Then, the Greeks surrounded them and attacked.
What was the Athenian's clever plan?
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Who helped the Greeks recreate their alphabet?
The Phoenicians
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What was the Greek word for city-state?
polis
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Myths are stories that people tell to explain beliefs about their world. They affected Greek life because it gave explanations for the world.
What are myths and how did they affect Greek life?
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The upper class men could buy helmets, shields, and swords.
What equipment could an upper class men buy?
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Where did the Persians first attack when they when to go attack Athens?
The plain of Marathon.
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When did most parts of Greece start making their coins?
By 500 B.C.
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aristocracy, oligarchy, monarchy, democracy, and a tyrant.
What kind of governments did they have?
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Part 1.What were the Olympics?
Part 2. Who did they honor?
Part 3. What events did they hold?
Part 1. The Olympics were games held every 4 years as part of a major festival that honored a Greek god.
Part 2. They honored the Greek god Zeus.
Part 3. They held a foot race, wrestling, long jump, javelin throw, and the discus throw.
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What surpluses did the Greeks have?
They had olive oil, wine, wool, and fine pottery.
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A marathon is a 25 mile race. They call it a marathon because a soldier ran from Marathon, a city-state in Greece, to Athens, about 25 miles, to tell them the news that the Greeks had won. The guy died when he reached Athens.
What is a marathon and why do they call it a marathon?
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They were rowing ships with two or three levels of oars on each side.
What did Greek fighting ships look like?
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What was the Mycenaean Civilization?
The Mycenaean Civilization was the first civilization built in Greece.
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Ares who was god of war. Aphrodite who was goddess of love. Artemis who was goddess of hunt. Hephaestus who was god of fire. Hera who was wife of Zeus and protector of marriage. Hermes who was messenger of god. Hestia who was goddess of home life. Poseidon god of sea and earthquakes. Zeus who was father of gods and leader of the gods. Demeanor who was fertility god. Athena who was goddess of wisdom. The last one is Apollo who is god of archery, healing, music, poetry, prophecy, and he later became god of the sun.
What are every single god that lived on Mount Olympus?
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The mountains divided Greece, so independent
city-states formed on their own and were not
united.
How did the mountains effect life in Greece?
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How many men did the Greeks lose and how many men did the Persians lose?
The Greeks lost 192 and the Persians lost 6,400.
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What is a ostracon?
A piece of pottery used to ostracize someone.
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Greek's bought grain, timber, for building, animal hides, slaves, nuts, figs, cheese, and flax.