Early Greeks
Athens
Sparta
Alexander the Great
Contributions
100
Athletic contests held every four years to honor their gods.
What are the Olympics?
100
There form of government in which the power is in the hands of the people.
What is a democracy?
100
True or False? Spartan women had more freedom than Athenian women.
True.
100
The culture Alexander spread through his conquests.
What is Hellenism (or Greek culture)?
100
This is the famous Greek tragedy where the title character kills his father, marries his mother, and brings ruin to himself and his kingdom.
What is Oedipus Rex?
200
The ruler of the gods.
Who is Zeus?
200
The peninsula that Athens (and most of Greece) is located on.
What is Balkan peninsula?
200
A Spartan slave.
What is a helot?
200
Alexander created this as a result of his conquests.
What is an empire?
200
The study of wisdom. It literally translates to "friend of wisdom" or "love of wisdom".
What is philosophy?
300
Home of the Greek gods.
What is Mount Olympus?
300
Who were the three great Athenian philosophers?
Who are Socrates, Plato and Aristotle?
300
Athens belonged to the Delian League, while Sparta belonged to the ______________ League.
What is the Peloponnesian League?
300
The name of the great ancient city in Egypt, named after Alexander, that became a great center for culture and learning.
What is Alexandria?
300
Greek contribution that involves plays and actors.
What is drama?
400
Greek goddess of wisdom.
Who is Athena?
400
The temple built for Athena.
What is the Parthenon?
400
A government controlled by a few.
What is an oligarchy?
400
The Athenian philosopher that was Alexander's tutor.
Who is Aristotle?
400
Greek architectural styles still used today.
What are Greek columns, symmetry, order, and harmony?
500
A fortified hilltop at the center of a Greek city-state.
What is an acropolis?
500
These Athenians could participate in the government.
What are free males?
500
True or False? The Peloponnesian War was fought between Sparta and Egypt.
False. The Peloponnesian War was fought between Sparta and Athens.
500
Alexander's heirs.
Who are generals?
500
Most well known Greek poet who gave us the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
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