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Geographic Terms/Greek Religion
Greek Geography
Forms of Gov't/Greek Religion
Athens/Sparta
End of Forms of Gov't
100
Where the land meets the water.
What is the coast?
100
These are the two reasons that Greek city-states were isolated from one another.
What is the mountainous terrain of mainland Greece and the islands surrounded by the sea?
100
This is the form of government where all people share power by voting.
What is a democracy?
100
This is how laws were made in Athens.
Suggestions for laws were made by the Council of 500, these decisions were then voted on by the Assembly which met every 10 days on a hill.
100
This is how monarchies came to an end.
What is aristocrats realized together they had more power than the king and took it for themselves?
200
A piece of land that is surrounded by water on all sides except for one.
What is a peninsula?
200
These are the two foods that were grown by farmers in Greece due to a lack of flat land.
What are olives and grapes?
200
This is the form of government where power is inherited.  
What is a monarchy?
200
This is who made the laws in Sparta.
Who is the Council of Elders?
200
This is how oligarchies came to an end.
What is the poor got tired of the oligarchs and supported new leaders who promised to help the poor and were backed by the military?
300
A group of islands.
What is an archipelago?
300
They needed land to grow more food to feed the growing population.
Why did the Greeks create colonies?
300
This is the form of government where power is taken by force and the person has the support of soldiers.
What is tyranny?  
300

How were boys and girl were educated in Athens and Sparta?

In Athens boys received math, literature, and writing; and girls learned how to take care of the home.  In Sparta both boys and girls received intense physical training to prepare them for battle.
300
This is how tyrants came to an end.
What is people got tired of Hippias cruel reign as a tyrant and forced him out of power and decided to share power together?
400
This is the continent that Greece is located on.
What is Europe?
400
This is 1 reason that made navigating in a ship on the sea difficult.
What is they didn't have...
400
This is the form of government where a small group of rich men have all the power.
What is an oligarchy?
400
This is how women and slaves were treated in Athens.

A. Slaves did a variety of job including city clerks, tutoring children, some worked as farmers, and other worked in mines deep underground. Women were not allowed to be citizens, very few of them had jobs, they could not choose their own husband, and were in charge of the home.

B.  Slaves in Athens could pass down their last name, marry who they wanted, and even power their own freedom.  The Athenian gov't from time to time would kill the strongest slaves to prevent rebellions.  Women had mostly the same rights as men, could own land and businesses, choose their own husbands, and speak with their husband's friends unsupervised.  

400
This is how democracies could end in Ancient Greece.
What is powerful speakers convinced populations to vote to go back to old forms of gov't that benefitted the rich?
500
His mother disguised a rock as a baby and Cronus ate it.
How was Zeus not eaten by Cronus?
500
This is another reason that navigating by sea was difficult.
What is they didn't have...?
500
This is how the Greek religion is described because of their belief in multiple gods.
What is the Greeks were polytheistic?


500
This is how women and slaves were treated in Sparta.

A. Slaves in Sparta could pass down their last name, marry who they wanted, and even power their own freedom. The Athenian gov't from time to time would kill the strongest slaves to prevent rebellions. Women had mostly the same rights as men, could own land and businesses, choose their own husbands, and speak with their husband's friends unsupervised.  

B. Slaves did a variety of job including city clerks, tutoring children, some worked as farmers, and other worked in mines deep underground. Women were not allowed to be citizens, very few of them had jobs, they could not choose their own husband, and were in charge of the home.

500
This is the type of democracy that the US gov't is.
What is a representative democracy.