The type of government most commonly used in ancient Greece.
What is democracy?
100
Goddess of the harvest, whose daughter Persephone was taken to the underworld.
Who is Demeter?
100
The original Greek philosopher, whose teachings we know because of the writings of others.
Who was Socrates?
100
A type of story known for the moral being taught. Often included animals. The most famous author of these stories was Aesop.
What are fables?
200
Citizens from Athens, Sparta, and other city states banded together to beat the Persians under this league.
What is the Delian League?
200
How Athens lost to Sparta during the Peloponnesian War...
What is illness & navy destroyed.
200
The mountain where 12 of the Greek gods reside.
What is Mount Olympus?
200
He was the most famous student of Aristotle.
Who was Alexander the Great?
200
The two types of plays often written and performed in ancient Greece.
What are comedies and tragedies?
300
These geographical features made it possible for city-states to remain small and govern themselves separately in most cases.
What are the dense mountains and shores of the sea?
300
The goal of this leader was to rule the known world.
Who was Alexander the Great?
300
The author of The Odyssey and The Iliad.
Who is Homer?
300
A student of Socrates.
Who was Plato?
300
There are three types of these items, used regularly on Greek buildings: Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian.
What are columns?
400
Describe three differences between Athens and Sparta.
Answers vary.
400
Describe the three classes of Aristotle's ideal government.
What is a leading class of philosopher-kings, led by wisdom; a military middle-class, led by courage; and a lower class of common people, led by their own desires.
400
The name of the king who threw himself into the sea when his son Theseus returned home with black sails on his ship.
Who is Aegeus?
400
A section at the top of a building, often with small statues adorning it.
What is a frieze?
500
Two of the bodies of water that surround Greece.
What is Ionian Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Aegean Sea (any two).
500
Zeus' father was one of this group that was overthrown by Zeus and his siblings.