Vocabulary
Greek Civilization
Religion
Knowledge & the Arts
Miscellaneous
100
A high, rocky hill where early people built their cities.
What is an acropolis?
100
This encouraged people of early Greece to be sailors and traitors.
What is the physical geography?
100
In general, Greeks worshiped
What is several gods?
100
a Greek drama that ends in disaster for the main character.
What is a tragedy?
100
One of the greatest leaders that Athens ever knew.
Who was Pericles?
200
An area of land nearly surrounded by water.
What is a peninsula?
200
These epics tell the story of the Trojan War and were written by Homer.
What are The Iliad and The Odyssey?
200
Gods of ancient Greece lived forever which means they were this.
What is immortal?
200
The author of The Republic.
Who was Plato?
200
This was the most famous temple to the goddess Athena. It stills stands today.
What is the Parthenon?
300
A payment made by a less powerful state or nation to a more powerful one.
What is a tribute?
300
It is believed this group of people took over the Minoans.
Who are The Mycenaeans?
300
The mountain where Zeus and the other gods ruled.
What is Mt. Olympus?
300
His most important lesson was "Know thyself."
Who was Socrates?
300
The first recorded Olympic games were held in this year.
What was 776 B.C.?
400
In ancient Greece, a sacred site used to consult a god or goddess; any priest or priestess who spoke for the gods
What is an oracle?
400

What is Peyton Peters' middle name?

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400
The head god of Greece
Who was Zeus?
400
He believed the word was made of tiny particles called atoms. He was proven correct 2,000 years later.
Who was Democritus?
400
The period between 1100s B.C. to 750 B.C is known as this.
What is Greece's Dark Age?
500
A long poem that tells a story.
What is an epic?
500
Because they were so separated, the Greeks lived in these tiny nations.
What was a city-state?
500
The god of War
Who was Ares?
500
Philosophers believed they could understand the world around them by
What is using the powers of reason?
500
This Athenian leader won the power to reform laws in 594 B.C.
Who was Solon?
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