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Geography
Early Greeks
Government in Athens
Greek Mythology
Literature
100
Greece is surrounded by this.
What is water?
100
In this system, citizens elected officials to make laws.
What is a representative democracy?
100
A leader who used force to hold power.
What is a tyrant?
100
He was the king of the gods.
Who is Zeus?
100
A short story that teach the reader lessons about life or give advice on how to live.
What is a fable?
200
The Greeks did this because it was difficult to travel by land.
What is become expert ship-builders?
200
This is how the Myceneans were different than the Minoans.
What is the Myceneans lived on the Greek mainland?
200
These were rich land owners.
Who were the aristocrats?
200
He was famous for his fables.
Who is Aesop?
200
This was an age marked by great achievements.
Who is the classical age?
300
Only some of those who lived in city-state lived inside these.
What are city walls?
300
These wealthy people did not have more power than citizens.
Who are the aristocrats?
300
A body of stories about gods and heroes that tries to explain how the world works.
What is mythology?
300
The ancient Greeks believed that these caused events like thunder and earthquakes.
What are the gods?
300
These are poems set to music.
What are lyrical poems?
400
A high hill that often had a fortress on its top.
What is an Acropolis?
400
Political meeting, religious gatherings, and goods being bought and sold all occurred at this place.
What is agora?
400
People who had a right to participate in government.
Who are citizens?
400
The Greeks went to the Oracle of Delphi to ask him questions.
Who is the god Apollo?
400
This shows that Greek mythology strongly influenced our language.
What is many English words and expression come from Greek mythology?
500
Marseille, France; Naples, Italy; Istanbul, Turkey
What are Greek colonies?
500
He would have not approved of the democracy found in the United States.
Who is Draco?
500
Brilliant elected leader who led the Athens government from 460 BC until 429 BC.
Who is Pericles?
500
This tells the story of the last years of the Trojan War.
What is Iliad?
500
It was natural for the ancient Greeks to produce great works of literature because they had always enjoyed doing this.
What is telling myths and stories?