Geography
The place where Greeks held athletic competitions to honor Zeus.
Olympia
A Greek city-state.
Polis
The battle where Greece defeated Persia in the first Greco-Persian War. It is also where we get the name for a 26.2-mile race featured in the Olympics.
Battle of Marathon
These women were not allowed to attend the Olympic games.
Married women
This philosopher tutored young Alexander of Macedonia.
Aristotle
The land east of mainland Greece where some Greeks settled.
Near East, or modern-day Turkey
Central area where people gathered to talk politics.
Agora
King Leonidas I led over 7,000 combined Greek forces to defend a mountain pass from Persians. When the Persians overtook them, he ordered most of his men to retreat and stayed behind with 300 Spartans.
Battle of Thermopylae
In this democratic city, women were not considered citizens.
Athens
This group formed under Athens after the Greco-Persian Wars to protect eastern Greece from future invasions.
Delian League
Greece has thousands of them, ranging in size from several hundred square miles to just two miles long. BONUS: Name the largest and smallest ones.
Islands (Largest is Lesbos, smallest is Delos)
Acropolis
When this city-state refused to accept Macedonian rule, Alexander the Great brought 33,000 troops to defeat them and became the dominant power in all of Greece.
Battle of Thebes
In this city-state, women were taught to read and write as well as defend themselves.
Sparta
The first people to live in Greece, though they did not speak Greek (at first). BONUS: Name their writing system.
Minoan, Linear A
After the death of Alexander the Great, his generals split up his empire. The three main kingdoms were the Seleucids, Ptolemies, and Antigonies. These are located in modern-day _____, _____, and _____.
Syria, Egypt, Greece
Cleisthenes divided Athens into ten of these districts as part of his plan for democracy.
Deme
The final battle of the Peloponnesian Wars when Sparta established dominance over Athens.
Battle of Aegospotami
These games went on alongside the Olympic games and only unmarried women could compete.
Heraean Games
In the Iliad, these two brother kings command most of the Greeks.
Menelaus and Agamemnon
New Hampshire is very temperate with lots of mountains and a small coastline. Aristotle would say that the people from New Hampshire are ____.
Energetic, intelligent, and the best political system
The five magistrates elected by the Assembly of Citizens who made sure the kings of Sparta respected the people's rights.
Ephorate
With this battle, Octavian defeated Mark Antony and ancient Greece was over.
Battle of Actium
Spartan mothers would say this to their sons before they left for battle.
"Come back carrying this shield or be carried back on it." Shields were a powerful symbol of warrior honor and they would use them to carry the dead back from battle.
Describe your favorite Greek myth.
Answers vary. Give as much detail as you can.