Religion
Mental Maps
Greek Wars & Warfare
Legends
The "gods"
100

Forever tasked with rolling a boulder up a hill as a punishment for a bad life.

Who is Sisyphus?

100

This body of water lies between Turkey and Greece.

What is the Aegean Sea?

100

This famous war starts with a beauty contest.

What is the Trojan War?

100

This was the woman who's beauty Paris couldn't resist.

Who is Helen of Troy?

100

This Greek god was the representation of war.

Who is Ares?

200

You ended up here when you died if you were a believer in the Greek religioin.

What is Hades?

200

This country lies South West of Israel.

What is Egypt?

200

This type of Greek battle formation organizes the soldiers so they are side by side with their shields protecting one another and spears overhead.

What is a Phalanx?

200

This Greek Hero ended a war by fooling his enemy with a wooden horse that hid soldiers.

Who is Odysseus or Ulysses?

200

This Greek god saw every person who ever died.

Who is Hades?

300

As a Greek, you would sacrifice to this god if you needed rain for your crops.

Who is Zeus?

300

From the mainland of Greece, if you were to sail directly south, you would eventually land on this country of North Africa.

What is Libya?

300

This vocabulary term is the virtue wanted in most soldiers.  It translates to courage or manliness.

What is Arete?

300

This wandering story teller made the Iliad and the Odyssey come to life for people who were his audiences while keeping these epic tales alive for future generations.

Who is Homer?

300

This Greek god was patron of people who fixed or made things out of metal.

Who is Hephaestus?

400

Forever hungry and thirsty while fruit and refreshing water lay nearby.

Who is Tantulus?

400

This country is North West of Syria.

What is Turkey?

400

Most soldiers in Greece had this job before becoming a soldier.

What is a farmer?

400

This monster is named after King Minos, a Greek King in its early history.

What is the Minotaur?

400

This Greek god might be prayed to any time a sailor left home for a trip.

Who is Poseidon?

500

This gift from Prometheus to humans earned him eternal punishment.

What is fire?

500

This country is east of both Syria and Jordan.

What is Iraq?

500

The Greek term for a City-State, an independent location that had their own military, culture, and traditions.  They often would wage wars for their own reasons.

What is a Polis?

500

These three goddess of Greek myth started a war over a beauty contest.

Who are Athena, Aphrodite, and Hera?

500

This Greek god was responsible for partying and drinking.  Often sacrificed to before a play or a festival.

Who is Dionysus?