Greece is located on the Mediterranean coast of this continent's southern border.
What is Europe?
100
The Greeks relied on the sea for food because the islands were rocky with this type of soil.
What is infertile?
100
The earliest Greeks used the sea for travel and trade because they had this tree's wood to build sturdy, solid ships.
What is the olive tree?
100
Without this bountiful resource, the Greeks would not have been able to survive, for it provided food, trade, a means of travel, and defense.
What is the sea?
100
One reason Greece was a suitable place to settle was because of it's climate, which could easily be described as this.
What is sunny?
200
The Greeks ruled the waters from the Ionian Sea to the west, and even more importantly this sea to the east.
What is the Aegean Sea?
200
This city-state's reputation as a warrior state was hard won through battles and wars, including the Peloponnesus and the Persian Wars.
What is Sparta?
200
This polis was famed as a cultural center, but wealthy because of its ship building.
What is Corinth?
200
Each city-state was built around a hill called this, that served as a public center for politics, religion, and defense.
What is an acropolis?
200
The ancient Greeks believed the Olympians, or the major gods and goddesses including Zeus, whom they believed controlled the details of their lives, lived on this real place.
What is Mt. Olympus?
300
This large Mediterranean Island, located south of Greece, had a great labyrinth built in the time of the earliest Greeks, the Minoans.
What is Crete?
300
This form of government, first developed in Athens, is one in which power is reserved for the people by the people.
What is democracy?
300
Because of their sense of adventure and desire for new lands, this group of Greeks ruled the mainland all the way to Crete during the Bronze Age.
What is the Myceneans?
300
All of Greece used this city-states limestone quarries to build Greece's great architecture and stone sculptures; the polis grew rich with this resource.
What is Athens?
300
The Greeks, like many ancient civilizations, believed in multiple gods and goddesses, not just one (monotheism), which is called this type of belief.
What is polytheism?
400
This civilization, located to the southeast of Greece, threatened the existence of Western culture in 490 BCE.
What is the Persian Empire?
400
The Mycenaeans, the dominating Greeks during the Bronze Age from 1500-1200 BCE, fought this ten year war in Troy making Helen, the wife of King Menelaus, a mythical beauty.
What is The Trojan War?
400
Following in his father's footsteps, this general spread Greece's empire to its greatest extent.
Who is Alexander the Great?
500
This city-state, because of its location on a central isthmus, became a trading power center.
What is Corinth?
500
During the Classical Era of Greece, war subsided and this, the study of thinking, and other fields such as science and drama flourished.