Greek Geography
About 75% of the Greek mainland is covered by
What is mountains?
Greeks practiced this type of religion
(The word's ending will change to -ism)
What is polytheism?
An independent city with its own government and economic system
What is a city-state?
Our current alphabet is modeled after this alphabet
What is the Greek Alphabet?
The Greeks used various types of pottery for storing liquids and other things, they would also decorate and paint the pottery with various patterns and images. These images may also help archaeologists understand what life may have been like in Ancient Greece. Ancient Greeks did this to share their culture
What is storytelling?
Greece is made up of both a mainland peninsula and over a thousand rocky [blank]
What are islands?
The 12 Greek Gods and Goddesses live here
What is Mount Olympus?
This group of Greeks favored war and strength
Who are the Spartans?
This letter is the third letter in the Greek alphabet and looks like Γ
What is gamma?
Farming in Ancient Greece was difficult because the soil was too...
What is rocky?
A body of land that is surrounded by 3 bodies of water. This is what Greece is.
What is a peninsula?
She is known for her beauty, men who speak her name fall under a spell, and her son Eros shoots arrows of love. Greeks pray to her in heartbreak and desire.
Who is Aphrodite, goddess of love?
This city-state is where the people favored and valued intelligence and wisdom
What is Athens?
The Greeks adopted this language from this group of people
Who are the Phoenicians?
Greeks would tell these types of stories that helped them explain how and why something exists
What is a myth?
The mountains made it difficult for Greek [blank] as well as protected Greeks from [blank]
This is a 2-part question, 2 answers.
What are unification and foreign attack?
This titan disobeyed Zeus and gave fire to mankind
Who is Prometheus?
This early Greek civilization lived in Knossos on an island named Crete
Who are the Minoans?
The Greek root word for "earth"
What is "geo"?
The Greeks will stop wars to participate in this event that celebrates and is dedicated to Zeus
What are the Olympics?
The 3 seas that surround Greece
What is Ionian, Aegean, and Mediterranean?
He carries thunderbolts and has many children with women other than his wife.
Who is Zeus?
This early Greeks tricked and defeated the city of Troy with a wooden horse
Who are the Myceneans?
Although the Ancient Greeks were not unified, they still shared the same culture, religious beliefs, and
What is language?
Ancient Greeks' economy, diet, and life was dependant on
What is the sea?