Lesson 1
A body of land that has water on three sides
What was a peninsula?
The ruler of the gods
What is Zeus?
Athens main rival
What was Sparta?
A narrow strip of land that links the Peloponnesus to the rest of Greece
What is an isthmus?
Stories that people tell to explain beliefs about their world
What is a Myth?
Defeated people in war who were forced to become slaves
Who were the Helots?
Important trading people who lived off the coast of the eastern Mediterranean
Who were the Phoenicians?
Games that were held every four years as part of a major festival to honor the god Zeus
What were the Olympics?
Military homes were boys at age seven and older who train for war
What were Barracks?
A system of writing that used 22 symbols to stand for sounds
What was the alphabet?
Homer's first epic poem
What was the Iliad?
A plain in Ancient Greece, northeast of Athens
What was a Marathon?
A peninsula forming the southern part of Greece
What was the Peloponnesus?
One of Aesop's best-known fable
What was "The Hare and the Tortoise?"
A city-state of Ancient Greece, which reached its greatest cultural achievements in the fifth century B.C., and is the capital and largest city of Modern Greece
What was Athens?