Land of Varied Riches
Ancient Greece
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large, flat area of land, usually without many trees
What is a plain?
100
Socrates was in important one of these; studies about why the world is the way it is
What is a philosopher?
100
central city of a city-state
What is a polis?
100
your name
What is ________?
100
means "rule by the people"
What is democracy?
200
body of land surrounded by water on three sides
What is a peninsula?
200
areas of ancient Greece that each had their own laws and form of government
What are city-states?
200
the most important resource in ancient Greece
What is water?
200
serious plays that end unhappily
What are tragedies?
200
where construction workers found artifacts from ancient Greece in 1997
What is the Athens subway?
300
long, narrow, deep inlet of the sea between steep cliffs
What is a fjord?
300
philosopher who studied with Plato
Who was Aristotle?
300
branch of the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Turkey
What is the Aegean Sea?
300
the longest river in Europe
What is the Volga River?
300
peninsula that includes Spain and Portugal
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
400
natural landform that separates Europe and Asia
What are the Ural Mountains?
400
he conquered many lands throughout the Mediterranean region
Who was Alexander the Great?
400
current capitol of Greece; once an important city-state of ancient Greece
What is Athens?
400
Alexander the Great's father; took control of Greece in 338 B.C.
Who was King Philip II of Macedonia?
400
age when Spartan boys joined the military
What is 7?
500
body of water on southern coast of Europe
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
500
type of government used by the city-state of Sparta; "rule by the few"
What is an oligarchy?
500
the country the Ural Mountains are located in
What is Russia?
500
he once said "One cannot step twice into the same river, for the water into which you first stepped has flowed on."
Who was Heraclitus?
500
the most famous temple atop the Acropolis in Athens
What is the Parthenon?
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