Europe Geography
Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece 2
100
The body of water that borders Greece, Turkey and Egypt.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
100
land surrounded by water on three sides
What is a peninsula?
100
Community in Ancient Greece with its own laws, government, religion and language.
What is a city-state?
100
The first city-state to create a democratic form of government.
What is Athens?
100
The dress Ancient Greeks wore
What is a toga?
200
The mountain range that separates Asia from Europe.
What are the Ural Mountains?
200
A long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between cliffs
What is a fjord?
200
An Ancient Greek a central city hall
What is a polis?
200
The first kingdom of Greece who settled on the island of Crete.
What is the Minos?
200
City-state with the most powerful army.
What is Sparta?
300
The body of water that separates England and France.
What is The English Channel
300
A large, flat land usually without trees
What is a plain?
300
A government system in which a few powerful, wealthy individuals rule.
What is an oligarchy?
300
King Agamenmon was the ruler of this civilization.
What is the Mycenaeans?
300
Events between Greece and Persia from 500-400BCE.
What are the Persian Wars?
400
The mountains that separate France and Spain.
What are the Pyrenees?
400
Longest river in Russia.
What is the Volga River?
400
A person who offers theories and is a lover of wisdom
What is a philosopher?
400
The festival held in honor of Zeus.
What are the Olympic Games?
400
The period of time when Alexander the Great ruled.
What is The Hellenistic Period?
500
Norway, Sweden, Finland
What is the Scandinavian Peninsula?
500
Which body of water lies between Greece and Turkey
What is the Aegean Sea?
500
The three greatest Greek philosophers.
Who are Aristotle, Socrates and Plato.
500
A famous poet and playwright of Ancient Greece.
Who is Homer?
500
Name three countries that Alexander the Great's empire covered.
What is Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Greece.
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