Literature
What is the name of the stories Greeks would tell about there Gods and their interactions with humans?
Mythology
The mainland of Greece is a what?
Peninsula
What is the Greek word for city state?
Polis
How was the first people to rule the Athens?
Aristocrats
What is the main idea of the story The Boy Who Cried Wolf?
To tell the truth
What are Fables?
Short stories with humans and non human characters
What is the largest sea Greece is surrounded by?
The Mediterranean Sea
What was Greek civilization surrounded by? And for what?
Walls for prodection
What is a oligarchy?
When only a few people rule
What is the main idea of the story the tor toile and the Hare?
To not be over confident
who is the most popular fable writer, He also wrote The Boy Who Cried Wolf and The Tortoise and the Hare?
Aesop
What are the most popular landform the Greeks built their house on?
The coast, flat land, and river valleys
What is the Greek word for the marketplace?
Agora
Today, what does the word tyrant mean?
A harsh ruler
What did the Greeks do to make the gods happy?
Build temples
Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Homer
What is one of the four major modern-day counties Ancient Greece traded with?
Spain, Turkey, Russia, or northern Africa
With expaneding trade Greek wanted to establish what?
Colonies
What is the name of the era between 460 BC to 429 BC?
The Golden Age
How long did it take Odysseus To get home from the Trojan war?
10 years
Who did the Greeks see in every natural disaster?
The gods
What two major skilled did Greece developed?
Sailors and shipbuilders
What did Greece become in 550 BC?
The greatest traders in the northern Mediterranean Sea
What type of population did the Athen’s government work best for?
Small
What tectonic plate is Greece on?
The Eurasian plate