Vocabulary
Vocabulary
People To Know
Short Answers
Short Answers
100
A large fighting ship used by the Ancient Greeks and others beginning in the late 6th century B.C.
What is a trireme?
100
An agreement to cooperate.
What is an alliance?
100
Discovered the Minoan civilization.
Who is Arthur Evans?
100
On what Peninsula is Greece located?
What is a Balkan?
100
What were Greeks main crops?
What are grapes and olives?
200
A deadly sickness.
What is plague?
200
A slave owned by the state in ancient Sparta.
What is a helot?
200
Wrote the lliad and Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
200
How many islands are part of Greece?
What is 2,000 islands?
200
What type of people were the Mycenaeans?
What is war-like?
300
A long story-poem.
What is an epic?
300
A cruel ruler, someone who usually took control of a government illegally and ruled alone.
What is a tyrant?
300
Son of King Darius, led Persians against the Greeks.
Who is Xerxes?
300
How much of the land consists of mountains?
What is 3/4?
300
What is one difference between the Minoans and the Mycenaeans?
What is Minoans peaceful, and the Mycenaeans war-like?
400
A bad leader.
What is a demagogue?
400
An open-air market and gathering place in Greek city-states.
What is an agora?
400
Leader of Athens, believed jurors should be paid and believed in democracy.
Who is Pericles?
400
What type of soil is in Greece
What is thin soil?
400
Name the three Greek Columns.
What is Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian?
500
A small strip of land, with water on both sides that connects two larger areas of land.
What is an isthmus?
500
A walled fort built on a hill.
What is an acropolis?
500
Son of King Phillip, dreamed of world conquest, created largest empire of the time.
Who is Alexander the Great?
500
What type of climate does Greece have?
What is hot and dry climate?
500
What city-state led the Peloponnesian League?
What is Sparta?
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