The Minoans
The name of the Mediterranean island that was home to Minoan civilization.
What is Crete?
The Olympic games were held as festival celebration to honor this god, the king of the gods.
Who is Zeus?
This war was fought to return the most beautiful woman in the world, Queen Helen, to her Greek husband, King Menelaus.
What is the Trojan War?
What is warfare?
She is the chief goddess of Athens.
Who is Athena?
An ancient sport honoring the gods (in the forms of bulls) practiced by young Minoan teens on the island of Crete.
What is bull jumping?
The Olympic games were named after the home of the gods, the highest mountain in Greece.
What is Mount Olympus?
The Greeks were able to get inside Troy's city walls by offering this as a peace offering to the Trojans.
What is the Trojan Horse?
When a boy turned 7, he was sent to this place for training until he turned 20.
What is a military training camp?
Athens was known primarily for its strong standing army OR for trade and democracy.
What is trade and democracy?
What is a minotaur?
This was the only athletic competition held when the Olympic festival first began.
What are foot races?
In the great sea Battle of Salamis, the Greeks used these ships to defeat the Persians.
What are triremes?
He was the chief god of Sparta.
Who is Ares?
Other than trade and democracy, name something Athens was known for.
What is architecture/buildings, a navy, education, philosophy, art.....?
The Minoans did not build city walls for protection. Instead they had a strong ______________ to protect their island home.
What is a navy?
As time went on, more athletic competitions were added to the Olympic festival. Name 3 competitions other than foot races.
What is boxing, wrestling, javelin (spear) throwing, discus throwing, chariot racing, long jump?
This war involved years of fighting between Greek city-states and overall weakened Greece.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
These were the rulers of Sparta.
Who are warrior kings?
What is an oligarchy?
This is the temple built to honor Athena.
What is the Parthenon?
The minotaur was kept in this maze beneath King Minos' palace at Knossos.
What is a Labyrinth?
The winner of a competition received this.
What is a laurel (olive leaf) wreath?
Alexander the Great's empire extended from Greece and Egypt across Asia Minor. Name the 4 great rivers within his empire borders.
What are the Nile, the Tigris, the Euphrates, and the Indus Rivers?
This many Spartan soldiers gave their lives under King Leonidas at Thermopylae to buy more time for the rest of the Greeks to retreat from the Persians.
What is 300?
Name the form of government that developed in Athens in which free male citizens were allowed to vote on laws and decisions for Athens.
What is a direct democracy?