Mythology
The Greek goddess of wisdom and war
Who is Athena?
The Greek mountain that the gods and goddesses called home.
What is Mount Olympus?
This form of government was first established around 550 BC in ancient Athens
What is democracy?
The ancient athletic competition that is now held every four years in different cities around the world.
What is the Olympics?
These people lived in independent city-states, shared a language and religion, but never became an actual country until the 20th century.
What are the Greeks?
Son of Zeus and Leto, twin brother of Artemis, Greek God of the Sun, Music, Poetry and Prophecy.
Who is Apollo?
The modern-day country of which Rome is the capital.
What is Italy?
The lowest class in the Greek and Roman social pyramid.
Who were slaves?
The first and simplest of the ancient Greek columns.
What is Doric?
The Macedonian who extended Greek control over most of the known world before dying at age 32.
Who is Alexander the Great?
This animal saved Rome’s eventual founders, Romulus and Remus, after they were abandoned as babies.
Who is the she-wolf?
The part of Europe where Greece and Italy are found.
What is southern Europe?
The Romans built a network of these from Britain to the Persian Gulf.
What are roads?
Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates dedicated themselves to understanding the workings of the human mind.
What is philosophy?
The city-state where boys and girls were taught to fight first.
What is Sparta?
Zeus gave the first female a box and told her not to open it, but she did anyway, releasing greed, vanity, gossip, and envy.
Who is Pandora?
The Roman coastal city famously buried in a volcano.
What is Pompeii?
Government control in the hands of a few wealthy families.
What is oligarchy?
Though they are both in the Eastern Hemisphere, Greece and Rome, are founders of this civilization.
What is "Western" civilization?
The Greeks established these throughout the Mediterranean to get more resources and extend their influence.
What are colonies?
This Titan angered Zeus and was tied to a rock, where each day an eagle, was sent to eat his liver, which would then grow back overnight to be eaten again the next day.
Who is Prometheus?
Greece and Italy are both this type of landform.
What is a peninsula?
Before becoming an empire, Rome was a nation of laws.
What is a republic?
Form of drama, or type of play, based on human suffering that leads to an emotional release for the audience.
What is tragedy?
This came after the Roman Republic.
What is the Roman Empire?