Geography
Vocabulary
People
Gods & Goddesses
MISC
100
This is the type of landform that Greece is.
What is a peninsula?
100
This is the Greek word for marketplace.
What is an agora?
100
This was the most famous female lyric poet.
Who is Sappho?
100
This is the god of the sun.
Who is Apollo?
100
This couple is the king and queen of the gods.
Who are Zeus and Hera?
200
This is the reason why travel across Greece was so difficult.
What are the mountains and seas.
200
These were free men who had the right to voter and participate in the government.
What is a citizen?
200
This was the greatest poet of the ancient world, wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
200
This is the goddess of love.
Who is Aphrodite?
200
This leader is the father of democracy.
Who is Cleisthenes?
300
These are the two earliest Greek civilizations . You may choose to give one answer for half the points .
What are the Minoans and Myccenaeans?
300
These were rich landowners.
What is an aristocrat ?
300
This Greek leader encouraged his people to participate in the government and he was at the center of the Golden Age og GReek history.
Who is Pericles?
300
This is the god of the underworld.
Who is Hades?
300
This is the period of warfare and disorder in Greek history .
What is the Dark Age?
400
These were the two most powerful cities in Greece.
What are Sparta & Athens
400
Greek cities were built on top of this
What is an acropolis ?
400
This is the most famous Greek hero who fought many monsters, including hydra, a huge snake with nine heads.
Who is Hercules?
400
This is the god of the sea.
Who is Poseidon?
400
This is the type of democracy in which each person votes.
What is direct democracy?
500
These are the names of the three seas that border Greece. You may chose to aanswer 1 for half credit.
What is the Mediterranean on the south. What is the Ionian on the west. What is the Aegean on the east.
500
Name 2 things Solon did as leader of Athens.
1. Suspended the debt of farmers 2. Created a people's court 3. Created laws that were much less harsh than Dracos
500
This tyrant leader created a set of very harsh laws.
Who is Draco?
500
This is the messenger god.
Who is Hermes?
500
This is the name of the city where the first Olympic games were held.
What is Olympia?
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