History
The Greek language also had a very large influence on this language.
What is the English language?
Greece is actually a body of land surrounded by water on three sides, or this term.
What is a peninsula?
When a Greek noble called Peisistratus overthrew the oligarchy that ruled over Athens, he ended up ruling over the city as a leader who holds political power through the use of force, or this term.
What is a tyrant?
This Ancient Greek mathematician spent nearly his entire life studying what would later be called geometry and whom many of the geometric rules we know today come from his writings.
Who is Euclid?
This civilization literally invented history (the study of the past people and events).
What is Ancient Greece?
This method of storytelling and explaining the world around us was very sacred to the Ancient Greeks and included stories of their gods and goddesses they believed in.
What is Greek mythology?
This sea is located directly south of Greece.
The Mediterranean Sea
This term is used for a small group of landowners that are very rich and hold a certain amount of power.
What is an aristocrat?
This famous Ancient Greek philosopher was a student of another philosopher named Socrates that became inspired by his teachings and created a school he called the Academy where students, philosophers, and scientists could come and debate their ideas about life.
Who is Plato?
Herodotus' way of studying the past and putting past events to various tests to figure out what events actually happened led to him being referred to as this nickname.
What is "The Father of History"?
This Greek storyteller is famous for his fables, or short stories that are meant to teach the reader about life and advice on how to live.
Who is Aesop?
This major Greek city-state was where democracy was invented and is now the capital city of Greece.
What is Athens?
Early Athens was actually governed by a small group of rich landowners that had power over the city, or this term.
What is an oligarchy?
This Greek philosopher had a method of teaching where he asked his students questions and at the end made people appear foolish, and was later sentenced to death when the people of Athens felt that he was leading his students astray and not believing in the gods.
Who is Socrates.
This famous Greek invented history by putting past events to different tests to figure out what actually happened and collecting material from several sources and arranging them to find out what most likely would've happened
Who is Herodotus?
These two stories, told by a famous Greek author named Homer, tell tales of a Greek hero named Odysseus venturing through western Europe battling monsters and the story of the Trojan War and how the Greeks won by using a wooden horse.
What is The Illiad and the Odyssey?
In ancient times, Greece wasn't a single nation but was actually subdivided into several ones of these.
What is a city-state?
This method of government was first created when an ancient Greek noble named Peisistratus overthrew the oligarchy ruling over Athens and became the tyrant of the city.
What is democracy?
This famous Greek philosopher was a student of Plato and believed that everyone should seek a method of living he termed the "Golden Mean".
Who is Aristotle?
This Ancient Greek man was supposedly blind and created two famous stories that are still appreciated today called The Illiad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
City life in Greece centered on the marketplace, or this term, where people met to purchase food, talk, and debate.
What is the agora?
Because of the generous actions of an Ancient Greek lawgiver named Cleisthenes and the new form of government he created to make life in Athens fair, He is sometimes called this.
What is "The Father of Democracy"?
This Greek physician is famous for his writings about how doctors should behave when treating their patients and how one should always treat another that's injured to the best of their ability.
Who is Hippocrates?