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Athens and Sparta
Famous Greeks
Religion
100
Both a city and an independent state.
What is a city-state
100
To murder, often for political reasons
What is assissinate
100
Athens and Sparta developed as city-states because this important geological feature.
What is mountains.
100
This great thinker encouraged his students to question everything.
What is Socrates
100
Greek gods, according to the Greek people lived this long
What is forever (immortal)
200
The period in Ancient Greece right after the death of Alexander the Great.
What is Hellenistic
200
Widespread sickness
What is a plague
200
This was a peaceful democracy.
What is Athens
200
Before dying at the age of 32, this famous Macedonian expanded his empire and spread Greek Culture throughout the Mediterranean.
What is Alexander the Great
200
The story of Persephone and Hades explains this natural phenomenon.
What is the changing of the seasons
300
A public market, a meeting place and the center of life in Ancient Greece.
What is the agora
300
The four periods of Ancient Greece are the Mycenaean, The Dark Ages, Archaic, Classical and this other period.
What is Hellenistic
300
The war-like militaristic city-state.
What is Sparta
300
His two most famous plays are the Iliad and the Odyssey.
What is Homer
300
This character's story explained how fire had come into human hands
What is Promotheus
400
Greece is certainly one of these land forms surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
400
Columns create with scrolls at the top
What is Ionic
400
The Spartan government concentrated its resources on
What is creating a great army of warriors.
400
Theater, art, music, sculpture, science and philosophy all flourished during this time period
What is The Golden Age of Greece.
400
This Greek god is at the center of the sun rising and setting.
What is Helios
500
power of the people!
What is democracy
500
Plain columns used frequently by the early Greeks
What is Doric
500
Contributed significantly to the Athens' defeat during the Peloponnsian War
What is Plague
500
This is the name given to a person sent on a quest to do good, or rescue someone or defeat something, etc.
What is HERO
500
These Greek gods were around long before Zeus took over.
What is The Titans
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