Vocabulary
Geography
Gods & Goddesses
Famous Greeks
City States
100
The search for wisdom & the right way to live.
What is philosophy.
100
Temple built by Pericles for Athena
What is the Parthenon?
100
King of all gods-rules the skies.
Who is Zeus?
100
Philosopher in Athens who was executed for corrupting the youth.
Who is Socrates?
100
Name of slave/servant class of Sparta made up of the people this warrior state conqured
What are the helots?
200
Fighting units with spears and shields
What are phalanxes?
200
Large peninsula on the southern tip of the Greek mainland
What is Peloponnesus?
200
Father of Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Demeter, Hera, and Hestia.
Who is Cronos?
200
Poet who wrote The Iliad and the Odyssey
Who is Homer?
200
One of the oldest city states in Greece
What is Argos?
300
Skilled public speaker
What an orator?
300
Largest island of Greece
What is Crete?
300
Location where most gods & goddesses resided
What is Mount Olympus?
300
Leader of Athens during its Golden Age
Who is Pericles?
300
First city state to overthrow its leaders & form a democracy.
What is Athens?
400
A long poem that tells a story
What is an epic?
400
Other than the Mediterranean Sea, these seas surround Greece.
What are Adriatic, Ionian, & Aegean?
400
These stories taught a lesson on how to live or explained something in nature.
What is a myth?
400
Famous philosopher, scientist, and teacher of Alexander the Great
Who is Aristotle?
400
Greek word for city state
What is polis?
500
A walled hill where people of a city could seek safety.
What is an acropolis?
500
Mountains and hills cover this amount of Greece.
What is 90%?
500
This is the goddess of love and beauty.
Who is Aphrodite?
500
Macedonian who took advantage of the weak city states after the Peloponnesian War, conquered all of Greece, and became its king
Who is Phillip II
500
City state that developed and built ships called triremes.
What is Corinth?
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