Vocabulary
Religion
Philosophy
Sparta and Athens
Geography
100
A short tale that gives animal characters human abilities that is used to teach a lesson.
What is a fable?
100
The Greeks believed in many gods and goddesses which made them this
What is polytheistic?
100
The study of nature and meaning of life comes from the Greek word "Love of Wisdom."
What is Philosophy?
100
This is the capital of Greece.
What is Athens?
100
This is the highest mountain in Greece.
What is Mount Olympus?
200
A type of government that is ruled by the people
What is a Democracy?
200
She is the goddess of Love.
Who is Aphrodite?
200
He believed in using logic, reason, and observation to explain events.
Who was Aristotle?
200
Two of the main Greek city-states.
What is Sparta and Athens?
200
Greece's geographic form is this term because its land has water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
300
This is a term for a greek city-state.
What is a Polis?
300
He is the king of the gods and god of the sky.
Who is Zeus?
300
This method is asking questions as a way of learning.
What is the Socratic Method?
300
Greece's soil was rocky and not ideal for this.
What is farming?
300
These are the three seas that surround Greece.
What are the Medditeranian, Ionian, and the Aegean Seas?
400
An open air market in a Greek city-state.
What is an agora?
400
He is the god of the Seas.
Who is Poseidon?
400
This philosopher believed in an absolute right and wrong and is created with establishing his own teaching method.
Who was Socrates?
400
This city is credited with creating the government form of democracy.
What was Athens?
400
This is the largest island that is part of and south of Greece.
What is the island of Crete?
500
A time when Greek ideas spread to non-Greek people
What is the Hellenistic Era?
500
The Greek god of fire.
Who is Hephaestus?
500
This philosopher was the teacher of Aristotle and believed people should be ruled by philosopher kings.
Who was Plato?
500
This form of government allows citizens to elect representatives to vote on issues and make decisions.
What is representative democracy?
500
Name at least three ways Greeks make a living based on their geography.
What is fishing; trading; building boats; farming wheat, barley, grapes, and olives; raising sheep and goats?
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