Geography
An area of land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is peninsula?
The type of government where people rule themselves.
What is democracy?
He is called the "Father of Democracy" because under his leadership, Athens had the right to participate in assembly that created the city's laws.
Who is Cleisthenes?
A beautiful temple built to honor the goddess Athena, whom the people of Athens considered their protector.
What is the Parthenon?
This war was between Athens and Sparta and threatened to tear all of Greece apart.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
Rocky coastlines, rugged mountains, and beautiful islands.
What is the physical geography of Greece?
A government where only a few people have power.
What is oligarchy?
King of the gods.
Who is Zeus?
Euclid wrote about the relationship between this subject and other fields like astronomy and music and also created geometry.
What is mathematics?
The Olympics are held every for 4 years and that is called this.
What is Olympiad?
The three seas that surround the Greek peninsula.
What are the Mediterranean, Ionian, and Aegean Seas?
A government where the leader held power through the use of force.
What is tyranny?
He wrote two epic poems-The Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
The Greeks created these forms of drama or plays.
What are comedies and tragedies?
The Greeks created these to explain the gods' actions and how the world works.
What are myths?
Greece is surrounded by water, which allowed them to ________________ with other communities.
What is trade?
When all citizens can participate directly in the government.
What is a direct democracy?
This man's efforts to build an empire made him one of the greatest conquerors in history.
Who is Alexander the Great?
The Greek scientists made these advances in medicine.
What is studied the human body to see how it worked and found causes and treatments for diseases?
Known a a great warrior today who was killed when an arrow struck his heal and today we call it a person's weak spot.
Who was Achilles?
The location of being surrounded by water helped to developed these two early Greek trading cultures.
Who were the Minoans and the Mycenaeans?
When citizens elect officials to represent them in the government.
What is a representative democracy?
These three important philosophers believed in the power of the human mind to think, explain, and understand life.
Who are Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle?
The Greeks invented many things...name one and how it helps us today.
What is?
Ways Ancient and Modern Olympics are similar.
Ways they are different.
What is both take place every 4 years
both include footraces, boxing, wrestling.
What is only include male athletes and more sports to compete in.