Vocabulary
This is a form of government where the people have the power to make political decisions. This form of government is still alive today in countries like the United States.
What is democracy?
This is the name of the large war that happened between Greece and Persia. This war ended with the Battle of Salami, where Athens' warships defeated a weakened Persia.
What were the Persian Wars?
This form of government, popular in Athens, was similar to a democracy where people make choices in laws or representatives, but specifically has the people come together for their communities.
What is direct democracy?
These are the three types of architecture styles in ancient Greece.
What is Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian?
This is a Greek word that means "love of wisdom." This is the study of the nature of reality including the causes and principles of existence.
What is philosophy?
This is a citadel/fortress that existed in every Greek city-state. They housed the city's municipal (government) and religious buildings and were built on hills.
What is an Acropolis?
What is Mount Olympus?
This is how women in Athens were treated. (3 answers)
What is no citizenship, rarely out in public, and expected to do household chores and raise children?
These are the main uses of sculptures in ancient Greece. (2 answers)
What are columns and decorations?
This philosopher wrote The Republic, detailing their ideal state with a Philosopher King, Guardians, and Producers. This philosopher was a student of Socrates. "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools talk because they have to say something."
Who was Plato?
This is a form of government where the monarch keeps their ceremonial position, but all political power belongs to the people as outlined in their constitution.
What is constitutional monarchy?
This was one of the earliest settlements in the Greek peninsula. They are most known for the war they had with Troy, creating the story of the Trojan War.
What is Mycenae?
This major Greek war saw Sparta and Persia work together against Athens due to their mistreatment of the Delian League members. Athens was defeated, which marked the death of Athenian democracy.
What was the Peloponnesian Wars?
This mathematician/philosopher created a theorem to understand triangles. This theorem helped us improve architecture.
a^2+b^2=c^2
Who was Pythagoras?
This philosopher was most known for studying syllogism, or logical inference, which became the scientific method. They were a student of Plato at the Academy and later created a school called the Lyceum. "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
Who was Aristotle?
This was a building located on the Acropolis in Athens. It was an ancient temple dedicated to the goddess Athena, originally built between 447-432 BCE.
What is the Parthenon?
These are the three oceans that surround Greece. The first separates Europe from Africa, second is located west of Greece, and the third is located to the east.
What is the Mediterranean, Ionian, and Aegean Seas?
This form of government, popular in Sparta, had a small number of people rule a nation or state. In Sparta, this government was primarily focused with the military.
What is oligarchy?
This student of Greek philosopher Diogenes also served as the king of Macedonia starting at just 20 years old. He conquered most of the known world by the time he died at 32 to illness and battle wounds.
Who was Alexander the Great?
This philosopher's existence is widely debated. He believed in asking questions of his students to make them think and discuss their ideas. He also argued against the Greek gods existing, leading to his execution by poison at the age of 70. "I know that I am intelligent, because I know I know nothing."
Who was Socrates?
This Greek word for "rule by the best" described a form of government where very wealthy, land-owning families passed their ruling down from one generation to the next.
What is aristocracy?
These two Greek city-states were much smaller than Athens and Sparta. One was a wealthy trade colony and the other was further inland and used irrigation to water their crops.
What are Corinth and Thebes?
These are the names of the two councils Sparta had in their government. One means 'council of elders' and is made up of citizens 60 or other. The second required citizens to be 30 or older and had debates exclusively for kings, elders, and high ranking officials.
What were the Gerousia and Apella?
This Greek doctor studied diseases and possible cures. His main contribution was a book of the roles and responsibilities of doctors to their patients. This turned into an oath doctors still say to this day.
Who was Hippocrates?
This playwright/philosopher created the play Oedipus Rex, which was the first drama to include the use of props. "All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils."
Who was Sophocles?