Geography
Geography 2
Government
Government 2
Mythology
100
An area of land that is surrounded by water on three sides?
What is a peninsula?
100
Greek word for city-state
What is polis?
100
A type of government in which people rule themselves.
What is a democracy?
100
Father of democracy in Athens
Who is Cleisthenes?
100
Body of stories about gods and heroes that thry to explain how the world works
What is mythology?
200
There are a few flatlands in Greece because of these.
What are mountains?
200
a high hill
What is the acropolis?
200
Rich landowners
What is an aristocrat?
200
Show of hands and and a secret ballot
What is how people voted in Athens?
200
short stories that teach the reader lessons about life or give advise on how to live
What are fables?
300
On the south was the huge Mediterranean Sea, to the west was the Ionian (eye-oh-nee-uhn) Sea, and to the east was the Aegean (ee-jee-uhn) Sea.
What are the bodies of water that surround Greece?
300
They both used sea for travel.
What are the Minoans and Mycenaneans?
300
A government in which only a few people have power?
What is an oligarchy?
300
A democracy in which each person has a direct vote
What is a direct democracy?
300
Wrote great epic poems such as the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
400
Minoans and Mycenaeans
What are the first two civilizations of Greece?
400
market place
What is agora?
400
People had the right to participate in government
What is a citizen?
400
Citizens elect officials to represent them in the government and make laws.
What is representative democracy?
400
Famous for his fables
Who is Aesop?
500
A time marked by great achievements
What is a classical age?
500
To band together for protection and stabilty
What is the reason Greeks developed city-states?
500
A leader who held power through the use of force.
What is a tyrant?
500
There are too many people to make voting directly on every law practical.
What is the reason the US didn't established a direct democracy?
500
Most famous lyric poet
Who is Sappho?
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