Overview of
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece
70-80% of the land in Greece is covered by this landform.
What are the mountains (of Greece)?
This is the name of the individual who is referred to as the first great Greek writer. This person is also thought to have written the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
What is Troy?
This is the name of the sea that the Greek empire formed around.
What is the Aegean Sea?
These are the people from whom the Greeks borrowed their alphabet.
Who are the Phoenicians?
More than half of all Greeks were this (profession).
What are farmers or herders?
This is the name of the main character in the story titled, "The Odyssey."
Who is Odysseus?
This is the Greek word for "city."
What is "polis"?
This is the term for a body of land that has water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
It is possible to write your full name using Greek letters.
False.
(No 'c', 'j', or 'y'...Can't write 'Hardy' and can't write 'Cali')
This is the metal that Greeks originally used to make weapons.
What is bronze?
When the barbarians invaded Greece, they had already upgraded to weapons made of iron, which is much stronger. This, along with the new tactics of using javelins and bows, allowed them to defeat Greece.
This is the name of the Greek god who, in Greek religion, was the god of the sea (and of water generally), earthquakes, and horses.
*god of the sea is sufficient for credit.
Who is Poseidon?
These are the kinds of animals that Odysseus and his men found in the large cave on the island they found.
What are sheep and goats?
This is the name of the large, southern most peninsula in Greece.
It is also thought to be the first area settled by people in ancient Greece
What is Peloponnesus?
Write the Greek letter 'D'
Looks like triangle
This is the main reason for ancient Greece having independent city states and settling mostly on the coast and natural harbors.
The mountains of Greece.
This made travel difficult and too time consuming, which led to independent city states, each with their own system of government and rulers.
This is the reason why Poseidon sent a strong wind to blow the ships off course, so that Odysseus and his men would have a hard time getting home.
Odysseus forgot to thank Poseidon (for their victory in the battle of Troy, and for keeping them alive).
They thanked all the other gods, but forgot to thank Poseidon.
These are the clues Odysseus found in the cave that led he and his men to conclude that a "giant" lived there.
What are giant pieces of cheese, each bigger than a man's head; and many large bowls, each large enough for a man to lie down in?
Name one thing Greek's invented.
Possible Answers:
Man caves, the Olympics, forms of government, the alphabet...
BONUS QUESTION!
This is the name of the famous actor/comedian who photo bombed the ancient Greece culture video!
Who is Will Ferrel?
These are three of Greece's main resources.
What are stones, olive oil, and fish (seafood)?
The Cyclops was the son of this Greek god.
This is the reason why it took Odysseus 10 long years to finally reach home.
Who is Poseidon?
The Cyclops was the son of Poseidon, and due to his anger and fury he asked his father to send waves and wind to sink Odysseus' ship so that he'd never return home.
They held on to the stomach fleece (a wooly covering from a sheep) of the sheep.
*Odysseus caught 3 fat sheep for each of his remaining men and tied them together. Each man held on to the fleece of the middle sheep. This way when the Cyclops was inspecting the herd of sheep, he didn't detect or find anything.
In ancient Greece, the Greeks also sought out colonies in other places. This is the name of the very large peninsula directly EAST of Greece, across the Aegean Sea.
And: What do we now call this country in modern times?
Antolia (Asia Minor)
Modern day Turkey
Write your first name in Greek.
Hardy:
Cali: