Vocabulary
Government
Gender
Greek Achievements
History
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What is a city-state?
The city as an independent government.
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This type of government appeared last and was considered rule by the people.
Democracy
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What is gender?
When something is male (guy) or female (girl).
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What can we thank the Phoneticians for inventing?
An alphabet
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Who won the Peloponnesian War?
Sparta
200
What is a polytheist?
The belief in many gods
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This type of government happened first in history and gave the right to rule to a king and queen.
Monarchy
200
How was education for boys and girls different in Sparta? List a few examples.
Boys were taught dance, reading, writing, sport, and military training Girls were taught reading, writing, gymnastics, sport, fighting and survival skills.
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What's important about Greek drama?
It was the first
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Which two city-states fought in the Peloponnesian War?
Athens and Sparta
300
What is a phalanx?
A military technique where soldiers create a protective shell with their shields and their spears sticks out.
300
This type of government happened second in history and gave the right to rule to a small group of wealthy people.
Oligarchy
300
How was education for boys and girls different in Athens? List a few examples.
Boys: Reading, writing, maths, music, poetry, sport, philosophy, ethics, rhetoric (persuasive public speaking), and military training. Girls were taught spinning, weaving, domestic arts, household tasks.
300
What is philosophy?
Love of knowledge, thinking about life
300
Name two of the main Greek gods.
Multiple answers
400
What is Hellenism?
Greek-ness
400
This type of government happened third in history and was ruled by one person who took over by force or with violence.
Tyranny
400
Name three things Athenian women weren't allowed to do.
Generally couldn't leave home, play sports, vote or participate in the government, own property, make decisions (because their fathers, husbands, brothers decided)
400
Who wrote the Iliad and Odyssey?
Homer
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Who spread Hellenism? Hint: Aristotle taught him :)
Alexander the Great
500
What is mythology?
Religious or cultural stories
500
Name three groups of people who were not considered citizens in Athens.
Women, children, landless men, foreigners, slaves, first generation Athenians.
500
What is one way guys and girls are equal and one way they're unequal nowadays?
Multiple possibilities
500
Who taught whom among the important Greeks we know? Name one of the teachers and their students.
Socrates taught Plato who taught Aristotle who taught Alexander the Great.
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Who were the three main Greek philosophers?
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
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