Famous Greeks
Greek Gods
All Greek to Me!
Greek Vocabulary
Greek gifts
100
The father of democratic reforms in Athens.
Who is Pericles?
100
I command the sea!
Who is Poseidon?
100
A battle where Persians were delayed by a small army of only 300 Spartans.
What is the battle of Thermoplyae?
100
A servant or slave in the city of Sparta.
What is a helot?
100
The staple crop of Greece.
What are olives?
200
One of the Greeks' most famous philosophers who angered the government. They forced him to either admit he was wrong or kill himself by drinking Hemlock! He chose death!
Who is Socrates
200
I killed my father and imprisoned the Titans becoming the king of the Gods!
Who is Zeus?
200
War that occurred between the city states of Athens and Sparta.
What is the Peleponnesian War?
200
The killing of a political leader.
What is an assassination?
200
These games occur every four years.
What are the Olympics?
300
The man that taught Alexander the Great about all things Greek.
Who is Aristotle?
300
The goddess of Wisdom.
Who is Athena?
300
The battle that Athenians defeated a larger, invading Persian army.
What is the battle of Marathon?
300
A rich person who has power mainly due to their wealth.
What is an aristocrat?
300
A system of government where people have the power?
What is democracy?
400
This man wrote the Republic, a famous tale which depicts his teacher Socrates.
Who is Plato?
400
The goddess of victory.
Who is Nike?
400
This device was used to trick and destroy the city of Troy.
What is the Trojan horse?
400
A widespread disease that wipes a population out.
What is a plague?
400
These people worked without pay for all of their lives in ancient Greece, often against their will. Nearly 1/5th of Athens was this type of people.
Who are the slaves?
500
The man responsible for the an oath in modern medicine that pledges selfless service and care to the sick.
Who was Hippocrates?
500
Zeus's father and mother?
Who is Chronos and Gaeia?
500
During this age of poverty, the Greeks lost the ability to read and write.
What is the dark age of Greece?
500
A market place in ancient Greece.
What is an agora?
500
This city devoted itself to war.
What is Sparta?
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