Geography
The landform that Greece is located on.
What is a peninsula
Athens is the birthplace of this.
What is democracy?
Greeks used mythology to explain what?
What are natural disasters?
This Athenian King created laws to make free me this.
What are citizens?
Life in the Greek polis was centered on this.
What is the agora?
This sea borders Greece to the east
What is the Aegan Sea
Form of democracy in the United States where the people elect representatives to government who create laws.
What is representative democracy?
Greek hero who slayed the minitour.
Who was Theseus?
This man is known as the 'Father of democracy'.
Who was Cleisthenes
These were often held in the agora to discuss events and news.
What are public meetings?
The large island that is south of Greece.
What is Crete?
Athens original government was a what?
What is an oligarchy?
This epic poem tells the story of the Trojan Wars
What is the Illiad?
This leader overthrew the oligarchy of Athens and ruled as a tyrent.
Who was Peisistratus?
Polis' were bult around this on a high hill.
What is an acropolis?
This destroyed the Minoan civilization.
What was a tsunami?
In this form of democracy, all citizens vote on all laws.
What is a direct dmocracy?
The epic poem telling about the travels of Odysseus coming home from the Trojan war
What is the Odessey?
This leader is known for encouraging citizens to take pride i their city.
Who was Periclase?
Colonies were built on these two seas?
What are the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea?
With no large river to live on, where did early Greeks turn for food and trade?
What are the seas?
These people conquered Athens and ended Greek democracy.
Who were the Macedonians?
Who was ancient Greece's most famous hero?
Who was Hercules?
These are the free men that could vote in the assembly.
Who are the citizens?
People could trade these two things in the agora
What are trade goods and food?