Geography
History
Culture
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
100
An area of land surrounded on three sides by water is called .
What is a peninusula?
100
These people lived in what is now Greece and influenced Greek society,historians do not consider them to be greek.
who are the minoans?
100
Two of the earliest cultures to settle in greece.
Who are the mycenaeans and the minoans?
100
The Greek word for a city state is
What is a polis?
100
Perhaps the most famous of all Greek Heroes
Who is Hercules?
200
Because mountains cover much of Greece, there are few of these areas for farm land.
What are flat lands?
200
The first people to speek Greek and therefore are the first to be considered Greek.
Who were the mycenaeans?
200
The Greeks became skilled at this trade.
What are ship builderds and sailors?
200
A fortress on top of a high hill is called
What is an acropolis?
200
To keep the gods happy, the greeks built
What are great temples?
300
When looking at a map of Greece, you will notice it has this type of coast line.
What is rugged?
300
All we know about what the Greeks of the Dark Age come from
What are archaeological findings?
300
Life in the Greek city-state often focused on.
What is the marketplace or agora?
300
A government in which only a few people have power.
What is an oligarchy
300
This person was famous for his fables where animals were the main characters
Who is Aesop?
400
Greece has many of these areas of land which are completely surrounded by water.
What are islands?
400
The creation of city states marks the begining of what is known as this age
What is the Classical Age
400
This became the foundation of Greek civilation.
What is a city-state?
400
People who have the right to particpate in government are
Who are citizens?
400
This story tells of the last years of the Trojan War
What is the Iliad?
500
These surround Greece.
What are the mediterranean and the aegean seas?
500
Greece is the birthplace of this type of government in which people rule themselves
What is a democracy?
500
These goods were often shared by Greek city-states in return for copper and iron.
What are olive oil and wine?
500
A leader who held power through the use of force is
What is tyrant?
500
The most obvious way we see the influence of the Greeks in our society today
What is our Language?
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