Vocabulary
European Geography
Greece
Literature/Government
Alexander the Great
100
A body of land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
100
These are the land features of Europe that led to the development of many different cultures.
What are mountains?
100
This is the greatest natural resource of the Greek peninsula.
What is water?
100
The writer of the Illiad and Odyssey.
Who is homer?
100
This is Alexander the Great's father's name.
What is Philip II or King Philip II?
200
This is the Greek name for the central city of a city-state?
What is a polis?
200
This is the reason the Mediterranean region is a popular vacation spot.
What is their hot, dry summers?
200
Due to the poor soil, these are the two crops the Greeks could cultivate.
What are grapes and olives?
200
A government where a single individual takes over and rules by force.
What is a tyrrany or a tyrant?
200
This is the empire that Alexander the Great led.
What is the Macedonian Empire?
300
This is a person who studies and thinks about why the world is the way it is?
Who is a philosopher?
300
These are the two factors that make Europe a world leader in crop production.
What is rich soil and plentiful rainfall?
300
These were created by the Ancient Greeks after their population grew.
What are city-states?
300
The writer of fables.
Who is Aesop?
300
This is Alexander the Great's famous tutor.
Who is Aristotle?
400
A long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea located between steep cliffs.
What is a fjord?
400
The large, flat area of land that stretches from France to the Ural Mountains that has some of the world's richest farmland.
What is the Great European Plain?
400
This is the birthplace of democracy.
Where is Athens?
400
This is a story the Greeks wrote to explain something in the natural world
What is a myth?
400
These are the areas that Alexander expanded his empire into.
What is the Mediterranean region and east into India?
500
This is the system of government in which a few powerful, wealthy individuals rule.
What is an oligarchy?
500
The mountain range that separates the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) from the rest of Europe.
What is the Pyrenees?
500
This is the empire that Athens and Sparta teamed up to conquor in 480 B.C.
What is the Persian Empire?
500
The Greek word for someone who is forced to work for someone else.
What is a helot?
500
This is the reason the Greek empire ended. (describe it)
What is Alexander's generals fought for control of his empire eventually dividing between themselves?
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