Vocabulary
Greek Marketplace
What is an Agora
On what geographic feature is Greece located?
What is peninsula?
People who had the right to participate in the Athenian government
Who are citizens?
Who is Zeus?
The author
Who is Homer?
A high hill that often had a fortress on its top
What is an acropolis
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
They ruled Early Athens
Who are the Aristocrats and tyrants?
Many Ancient Greeks visited the oracle at Delphi to ask this sun god questions
Who is Apollo?
Hector killed Patroclus
What is the Iliad?
City-State
What is a Polis?
Due to Greece's geography, the Early Greeks became experts in what?
What is shipbuilding?
Under his leadership, Athenians developed the world's first democracy
Who is Cleisthenes?
Caused events like thunder and earthquakes
Who are the Ancient Greek gods?
Sea Monsters in the Mediterranean Sea
What is the Odyssey?
What is mythology?
This Early culture in Ancient Greece developed on the mainland and not the islands
Who are the Mycenaens?
All citizens in Athens participate directly in the government
VS.
Citizens electing officials to make the laws
What is direct democracy VS. representative democracy?
A poem set to music
What is a lyric poem?
Achilles, Hector, Odysseus share this same trait
What is being brave warriors?
Age of great achievements
What is the classical age?
Marseille, France
Naples, Italy
Istanbul, Turkey are all cities that began as what in Ancient Greece.
What are Greek colonies?
To encourage people to participate in government, he began to pay people who served in public offices or on juries
Who is Pericles?
Greek Literature influenced these modern items
What is modern language, art and literature?
The Iliad and the Odyssey are categorized as this type of literature