Vocabulary
Geography and The Early Greeks
Government in Athens
Greek Mythology and Literature
From the Iliad/Odyssey
100

Greek Marketplace

What is an Agora

100

On what geographic feature is Greece located?

What is peninsula?

100

People who had the right to participate in the Athenian government

Who are citizens?

100
King of Gods

Who is Zeus?

100

The author

Who is Homer?

200

A high hill that often had a fortress on its top

What is an acropolis

200

Traveling inland across the rugged mountains was so difficult, the Early Greeks turned to these for travel

What is the Aegean Sea, Mediterranean Sea and the Ionian Sea

200

They ruled Early Athens

Who are the Aristocrats and tyrants?

200

Many Ancient Greeks visited the oracle at Delphi to ask this sun god questions

Who is Apollo?

200

Hector killed Patroclus 

What is the Iliad?

300

City-State

What is a Polis?

300

Due to Greece's geography, the Early Greeks became experts in what?

What is shipbuilding?

300

Under his leadership, Athenians developed the world's first democracy

Who is Cleisthenes?

300

Caused events like thunder and earthquakes

Who are the Ancient Greek gods?

300

Sea Monsters in the Mediterranean Sea

What is the Odyssey?

400
A body of stories about gods and heroes that tries to explain how the world works

What is mythology?

400

This Early culture in Ancient Greece developed on the mainland and not the islands

Who are the Mycenaens?

400

All citizens in Athens participate directly in the government 

VS.

Citizens electing officials to make the laws 

What is  direct democracy VS. representative democracy?

400

A poem set to music

What is a lyric poem?

400

Achilles, Hector, Odysseus share this same trait

What is being brave warriors?

500

Age of great achievements

What is the classical age?

500

Marseille, France

Naples, Italy

Istanbul, Turkey are all cities that began as what in Ancient Greece.

What are Greek colonies?

500

To encourage people to participate in government, he began to pay people who served in public offices or on juries

Who is Pericles?

500

Greek Literature influenced these modern items

What is modern language, art and literature? 

500

The Iliad and the Odyssey are categorized as this type of literature 

What are epic poems? 
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