Vocabulary
Agreement formed between two groups to work together
Alliance
Most significant Mountain in Ancient Greece
Mt. Olympus
Who is the main God of Greek Mythology
Zeus
What were the two most common types of theater for Ancient Greeks
Comedy & Tragedy
Which Greek Society taught their children to fight, gave their wives freedom to leave the house to hunt, and left babies to die if they were weak?
Sparta
General name for a city-state or city in Ancient Greece
Polis
The mainland of Greece is this landform
Penninsula
Who is the God of the underworld?
Hades
Name the 3 types of Greek Columns
Dorian, Ionic & Corinthian
Which society encouraged the arts, public discourse and learning? Yet limited women to household duties.
Athens
Fighting style the Greeks invented where soldiers are groups in a square with spears and shields
Greece is surrounded by over a thousand of this landform
Islands
Who is the God of the Sea?
Poseidon
What are the two most famous poems written by Homer
Illiad & the Oddysey
Athletic Event created to worship the Ancient Greek gods.
The Olympics
High hill that housed the fortress of a city-state
Acropolis
Due to isolation caused by natural barriers city-states developed independent of each other. Which are the two most known city states of Ancient Greece.
Athens & Sparta
Who is the Goddess of Wisdom
What is a famous building built by the greeks that still stands today in Athens?
Parthenon
Type of Government where people participate in ruling themselves by electing those to represent them in government.
Representative Democracy
Greek-like culture that blended with customs in parts of African and Asia
Hellenistic
Due to the mountainous terrain of Ancient Greece what became the two most common occupations.
Fisherman and Merchant
Demeter
Name a mathematical theory (we talked about in class) from Ancient Greece we still study today
Pythagorean Theorem
What did Paul notice while he was in Athens that helped him talk to the greek philosophers about the one true God?
The Tomb to the Unknown God