Geography
Name one sea around Greece
Mediterranean, Aegean, Ionian, Adriatic
Ruler of Athens during the Golden Age
Pericles
Greek religion believes in many gods or one?
Many/Polytheistic
Type of government, ruled by elected officials
democracy
A city state was called a
polis
Largest island of Greece
Crete
King of Macedonia, conquered a massive area including Greece and Egypt
Alexander the Great
Goddess of wisdom and patron goddess of Athens.
Athena
Type of government ruled by inherited position of king or queen
Monarchy
Iliad and Odyssey were created by
Homer
Greek kingdom whose kings end up conquering and uniting all of Greece
Macedonia
Name one Greek philosopher
Socrates, Aristotle, Plato
King of the Gods. Need the Greek name AND roman name.
Zeus. Jupiter
Type of government where rule and absolute power is held by one person
Tyranny
Name the ally of the Athenians when they were fighting in the Persian war
Sparta
Famous ancient Greek festival of competition still held to this day (every 2 years)
Olympics
Name one Greek scientist/mathematician
Hippocrates and Pythagoras or Archimedes
God of the sun and medicine. Greek name AND Roman name.
Apollo. Helios
Ruled by a powerful small group of people
Oligarchy
The Peloponnesian War was who vs who
Athens and the Delian League vs Sparta and the Peloponnesian League
highest point in a greek city state and a very important place to the city state
Akropolis
Father of History
Herodotus
The Greeks believed that the gods lived where?
Mount Olympus
Who could vote in Athens?
Male citizens
Athenian ruler who codified the laws (good tyrant)
hint: a character in harry potter is named after him
Draco