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A city on the coast of Asia Minor that was burned after a 10 year war
Troy
He was the king of all Greek gods.
Zeus
The Greek marketplace.
Agora
What "philosopher" means?
"Lover of Wisdom"
The date for the first Olympic Games in History
776 B.C.
The Aristocrat who brought Athenian democracy to its fullest measure
Pericles
Japheth's son who was the ancestor of the Greeks
Javan
The Macedonian king who conquered almost all Greece before he was assassinated in 336 B.C by his jealous wife Olympias.
Philip II
The home of the gods according to Greek mythology
Mount Olympus
The name given to 16 cities built by Alexander the Great
Alexandria
The Greek City- States
Polis
What is the word that is derived from Hellenes which is another name for “Greek” ?
Hellenic
An impressive palace built by the Minoans
Knossos
Competition held every four years to honor Zeus, and to encourage unity among the various city-states of Greece
The Olympic Games
Invaders from the north who helped to bring about a dark age in Greece which started about 1200 B.C.
Dorians
The people who flourished on the mainland of Greece between about 1600 and 1200 B.C.
The Mycenaeans
The heavily fortified city that soon fell at the sound of trumpets and shouts.
Jericho
What was the First crime in History?
Cain killed his brother Abel
It means "worshiper of many gods"
Polytheists
What was the name given to large stone statues with the heads of men, rams, or hawks and the bodies of lions?
Sphinxes
Huge tombs in the Egyptian culture were called?
Pyramids
Who were the first people in World History to know how to use the wheel?
The Sumerians
How many Law did Hammurabi invented /carved?
300 Laws
The best doctors of the ancient world were in Egypt...but what did they use to cure?
They used magic to cure
What was the name given to the Sumerian temples? (The places to worship their gods)
Ziggurats