Arts and Culture
Geography and More Culture
Athens
Sparta & War
Miscellaneous
100
This is the most important form in Greek architecture and was dedicated to a god or goddess.
What is the temple?
100
A mountainous peninsula and many islands
What is Greece?
100
To have children
What is the primary function of the Athenian family?
100
Rule of the few
What is an oligarchy?
100
Written by Homer (titles)
What are the Illiad and the Odyssey?
200
The religious center of a Greek city-state, often in a fortified area.
What is the acropolis?
200
The geographical reason many cities developed in isolation, thus creating fiercely independent city-states
What are high mountain ranges?
200
Central focus of Greek life
What is the polis?
200
The outnumbered Greek army held off the massive Perisan force fore two days
What is the Battle of Thermopylae?
200
A religious festival to honor the gods every four years.
What are the Olympics?
300
Where the chief gods lived.
What is Mount Olympus?
300
Greeks consulted this person in order to find out the will of the gods.
Who is the oracle?
300
He laid the foundation of Athenian democracy
Who is Cleisthenes?
300
Brought an end to the age of classical Greek culture and government
What is the Peloponnesian War?
300
A blend of Greek and Eastern cultural elements
What is Hellenistic culture?
400
An organized system of thought
What is philosophy?
400
A period after Alexander the Great with considerable cultural accomplishments in science and philosophy.
What is the Hellenistic Era?
400
The height of Athenian power and brilliance
What is the Age of Pericles?
400
The meaning of the world "spartan"
What is "highly self-disciplined?"
400
Influenced Greek life and culture through religious practices, art, politics and literature. Prided themselves on heroic deeds in battle.
Who are the Mycenaeans?
500
He said, "the unexamined life is not worth living."
Who is Socrates?
500
The philosophy that happiness can only be found when people gain inner peace by living in harmony with the will of the gods.
What is Stoicism?
500
Pericles expanded Athenian democracy by creating this type of democracy.
What is a direct democracy?
500
Greater freedom than their Athenian counterparts
What is the role of women?
500
The first Greek dramas
What are tragedies?
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