Ancient Greece
Believing in more than one god.
What is polytheistic?
The flat land was also used for_____
What is farming?
True or False. Another name for city-state is polis.
What is true?
An area surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
Food(s) that grew well in Ancient Greece.
What are grapes, olives, and wheat?
Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle.
What are famous Greek philosophers?
At first the kings were chosen by the ______, but then the kings demanded that their ________ would take over, starting ________.
What are people, children, and dynasties?
True or False. The mainland of Greece is a plateau.
What is false? The mainland of Greece is a peninsula.
Where the Greeks thought Greek gods lived.
What is Mt. Olypmus?
Where there was no art, written recordings, or economics, and everything was kind of dark and dreary.
What is the dark age?
The largest peninsula in Greece.
What is the Peloponnese Peninsula?
Ruling power in the hands of a few people.
What is an Oligarchy?
True or False. The Dorian's conquered every Mycenaean city.
What is false? The Dorian's conquered every city, but Athens.
The seas in Ancient Greece were_____
What are Mediterranean, Aegan, and Ionian?
A Greek temple dedicated to Athena.
What is the Parthenon.
The early civilization that the Ancient Greeks were influenced by.
What are the Minoans?
The continent(s) that Ancient Greece was laid on.
What is Europe and Asia?
True or False. The Iliad and the Odyssey were two long poems about Greeks heroic win over the Trojans and what happened after.
What is true?
Some land forms in Ancient Greece.
What are peninsulas, oceans/seas, mountains, islands, farmland/land, valleys, and rivers?
An Ancient Greek poet/author. Known for writing the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who was Homer?
The ________ over threw the king.
What are the Aristocrats?
Odysseus's plan to defeat the Trojans.
What is the Greeks pretended to give up and sail away, they would give the Trojan's a "gift" that some of the Greek warriors would be hiding in and when the Trojan's went to sleep, the Greeks would light their town on fire?
True or False. The Mediterranean climate is mild, dry winters, and wet summers.
What is false? The Mediterranean climate is mild, dry summers, and wet winters.
Thessaly and Pindus.
What are the two mountain regions in Ancient Greece?
Name at least two cities in Ancient Greece.
What are Sparta, Crete, Macedonia, Epirus, and Athens?