Geography
The term used for a narrow strip of land between two bodies of water.
The Greek term used for a city state.
What is polis?
The term used for the military houses that Spartan boys lived in.
What is barracks?
The god of the sea.
Who is Poseidon?
The term used for the study of basic truths and ideas about the universe.
What is philosophy?
The largest Greek island.
What is Crete?
The term used for a government in which the citizens make the decisions.
What is democracy?
Sparta and Athens signed this to end the war between them.
What was a truce?
The Greeks believed the gods lived here.
Where was Mt. Olympus?
The three types of Greek columns.
What are Ionic, Corinthian, and Doric?
What are the three seas that surround Greece?
What are the Ionian, Aegean, and Mediterranean Seas?
The term used for one individual who took power illegally.
What is a tyrant?
The war between Sparta and Athens lasted this long.
What was 27 years?
The Macedonian ruler who created a great empire.
Who was Alexander the Great?
The Greek scientist that placed Earth at the center of the universe.
Who was Ptolemy?
The percentage of land that is mountainous.
What is 70-80%?
The term used for the earliest form of Greek government.
What is monarchy?
The war between Athens and Sparta.
What was the Peloponnesian War?
The term used for the blending of Greek, Persian, Egyptian, and Indian cultures.
What is Hellenistic?
The name for a short story that usually involves animals and teaches a lesson.
What is a fable?
The term used for the southern tip of the Greek peninsula.
What is Peloponnesus?
The term used for the system of government in which only a minority are in control.
What is oligarchy?
Athens lost one third of its people during the war with Sparta due to this.
What was the plague?
The modern long distance race that was named after an important city in the Persian war.
What is a marathon?
The name of the Greek philosopher who was sentenced to death and died by drinking hemlock.
What was Socrates?