Geography
What Continent is the country of Greece located in?
What is Europe
This sporting event originates in Greece in 776 BCE to honor the Gods.
What is the Olympics
The oldest type of Government, Corinth had this type of Government in which one person rules and the power to rule is usually inherited by their children.
What is a monarchy.
The "Father of medicine." People in the medical field still take an oath based on this Greek Person.
Who is Hippocrates.
The Early Greek people who lived on the island of Crete.
What is the Minoans.
Mainland Greece is considered to be this physical feature, meaning it is surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula.
Greek culture was spread to places Alexander the Great conquered. What is the name of this blend of "Greek like" cultures that followed?
What is Hellenism.
This type of Government translates to rule by the few. Sparta had this type of Government in which a few rich aristocrats rule.
What is an oligarchy.
This person is famous for his stories that often had animal characters which taught lessons (fables).
What is Aesop.
Based on artifacts left behind by the Minoans we know that they practiced this sport.
What is bull-leaping.
Due to having islands, a peninsula and multiple seas the Greeks were excellent at building these for travel and trade.
What is boats.
The Greeks believed in many Gods (polytheism). They also believed in stories about Gods and heroes that helped explain natural phenomenon. What are these stories called?
What is mythology.
Cleisthenes invents this type of Government in which the common people get to make decisions and the majority rules.
What is democracy or direct democracy.
This blind poet wrote about the Trojan Wars in the Iliad and about Greek heroes in the Odyssey.
Who is Homer.
These people possibly fought in the Trojan Wars which were written about in Homer's Iliad.
What is the Mycenaeans.
This physical feature separated the culture of the Greek people and is the reason that they had city-states (Polis').
What is mountains.
Why were the Persians so successful at conquering other people and creating such a large empire?
They let people they conquered keep their customs/culture.
Rule by one person who breaks the law to gain power usually by using force. This person is usually well liked and power is not passed to their children.
What is a tyranny or a tyrant.
This person was taught by Aristotle and was the King of Macedonia, he became the Greatest conqueror in all of history
What is Alexander the Great.
Civilization under these early Greeks collapsed possibly due to a large volcanic eruption (which may have created Atlantis)?
What are the Minoans.
This physical feature united the Greeks. Because of this physical feature the Greeks spoke the same language and believed in the same polytheistic religion.
What is the Seas.
What are three reasons Athens was forced to surrender in the Peloponnesian Wars?
What is illness, loss of food or supplies and poor leadership.
In this type of Democracy the people vote on other people to run the government and make the laws on their behalf. This is the type of Government we have in the USA.
What is a representative democracy.
These Mycenean civilization ended due to constant warfare from the Dorian people. This caused a time of constant killing, the loss of trade and writing known as a what?
What is a Dark Age.