Vocab
Geography
Daily life
City-state and Democracy
Sparta and Athens
100
A body of land surrounded by water?
Peninsula
100
What covers most of Greece and divides the land into many regions
Mountains
100
What do Greeks believe in(religion)
Polytheism
100
What were the two largest city-states?
Athens and Sparta
100
The Council of Elders was made up of how many citizens?
30
200
Stories that people tell to explain their beliefs about the world
Fable
200
what made it difficult for Greeks to unite under a single government
The rugged landscape
200
What did the Greeks use to explain the world around them
Myths
200
What was the center of city life in Greece?
Agora
200
What was the goal of the Spartan society?
To have a strong army
300
To send someone away from the city-state for ten years
Ostracize
300
What played a major role in life for ancient Greece?
The seas
300
What were Homer two most famous epics?
Iliad and the Odyssey
300
Each city-state was ______ in Greece (Fill in the blank!)
Independent
300
Sparta expected women to be...?
Tough, emotionally and physically
400
Military houses
Barracks
400
Where did most of the farming in Greece take place?
In the valleys between the mountains
400
What are still considered masterpieces of literature
Epics
400
_________ is a government ruled by the upper class of society or by nobility.
Aristocracy
400
Did women participate in government?
NOPE!
500
people of southwest Asia who began to trade around 1100 B.C.
Phoenoicians
500
Name three things Greece could produce
Olive oil, wine,wool,and fine pottery
500
What major festival was used to honor Zeus
Olympics
500
One of the major legacies of ancient Greece is the idea of __________, which the Greeks introduced.
Citizenship
500
Athenian society designed to prepared boys to be.....?
Good citizens
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