Land that is surrounded on three sides with water.
What is a peninsula?
100
a famous conqueror who created a large empire in only 12 years and spread Greek culture.
Who is Alexander the Great?
100
like a city-state
What is a polis?
100
government in which people have power
What is a democracy?
200
a story that has a moral or a lesson to be learned
What is a fable?
200
leader of Athens for over 30 years and focused on democracy, architecture, education (make an Athens that Greeks would be proud of)
Who is Pericles?
200
city-state in Greece known for education, philosophy and democracy
What is Athens?
200
government in which only a few people hold/have power
What is an oligarchy?
300
A fortified structure on the top of a hill
What is an acropolis?
300
“Father of History”
Who is Herodotus?
300
city-state in Greece known for its military strength and training (so focused on military that it forgot to focus on trading!)
What is Sparta?
300
government in which all citizens vote on everything
What is a direct democracy?
400
a big open meeting space to have market or to meet with people/debate
What is an agora?
400
“Father of Medicine” -- said to treat ALL patients equally/fairly
Who is Hippocrates?
400
present day Iran, a large empire that would later be taken over by Alexander the Great
What is the Persian Empire?
400
government in which citizens choose representatives to speak for them/vote for
What is a representative democracy?
500
long poems about heroic deeds, Homer was a famous writer of these.
What is an epic?
500
the first Greek people and first Greek Kingdom near Mycenae, invaded and conquered the Minoans
Who are the Mycenaeans?
500
a temple built by Pericles for the goddess Athena, built on top of the acropolis in Athens. Many thought it was a bad decision, but when it opened, the critics supported Pericles