Geography and City-States
Government
Mythology
Alexander the Great
Athens and Sparta
100
The mainland of Greece is this type of landform.
What is a peninsula?
100
Government in which people rule themselves
What is a democracy?
100
King of the gods
Who is Zeus?
100
The country Alexander the Great is from
What is Macedonia?
100
This city-state had a military-based society
What is Sparta?
200
This is the Greek word for a city-state.
What is a polis?
200
Rich landowners
What are aristocrats?
200
A story from ancient Greece told to explain a belief or natural occurrence
What is a myth?
200
A group of soldiers that stand closely together and hold long spears
What is a phalanx?
200
This city-state is the birthplace of democracy
What is Athens?
300
Greek cities were usually built on high hills called....
What is an acropolis?
300
A leader who holds power through force
What is a tyrant?
300
God of the sea
Who is Poseidon?
300
This word means "Greek-like"
What is Hellenistic?
300
Athens and Sparta fought together against the Persians in this war
What are the Persian Wars?
400
Greek city-states built trading colonies around this sea.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
400
A type of government in which only a few people have power
What is an oligarchy?
400
What is the "hometown" of the 12 Olympians?
What is Mount Olympus?
400
Alexander built a large _______ that was the largest the world had seen at that time.
What is an empire?
400
An agreement to work together
What is an alliance?
500
A Greek marketplace
What is an agora?
500
In this type of government, citizens elect representatives to make laws for them.
What is a representative democracy?
500
The three major purposes of mythology for the ancient Greeks
What are religious, scientific, and literary?
500
After Alexander died, his empire was divided into these three kingdoms.
What are Macedonia, Syria, and Egypt?
500
Athens and Sparta fought against each other in this war
What is the Peloponnesian War?
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