Vocabulary
What does treason mean?
To betray your country.
What did Hades rule over?
The underworld!
What type of government has one leader who controls everything?
Monarchy.
Who won the war?
Sparta
Who defeated Greece?
Rome.
What is a philosopher.
Someone who studies thinking.
What happened to Zeus's brothers and sisters?
Cronos ate them!
What are the two different types of democracy?
Representative and direct.
What age did Athenians start military training?
18-years-old!
How did 1/3 of Athen's population die?
Plague!
Describe Pankration?
You fight until the death. It is a combination of wrestling and boxing.
What happened to Archne?
She won a weaving competition and the gods were anger so she was turned into a spider.
What is an oligarchy?
A type of government were a small group rules over all.
The name for an ancient Greek soldier.
Hoplite
The Persian Empire.
What does deity mean?
It is another word for "god".
Zeus had ate her mother while she was pregnant with Athena and one day, Zeus had a headache and had his head cut open with an ax to relieve the pain and Athena popped out!
What type of government does the United States have? BE SPECIFIC! THIS IS A TWO WORD ANSWER.
Representative democracy.
Describe what it was like to be in the Spartan military.
You start from the age of 7. You train very hard, are given very little food, and are taught to steal.
How did the Peloponnesian war lead to the downfall of Greece?
Both of the most important city-states were weakened and could not come together to fight a common enemy.
What is the different between polytheism and monotheism? Which one is more common today and which one was more common in ancient Greece?
One is a belief in just one god while the other is a belief in many gods. Today most religious people believe in only one god (monotheism) while most people in ancient Greece believed in many gods (polytheism).
Which greek god saved humans and brought them fire?
Prometheus.
Explain why Socrates is guilty of treason.
Socrates was told by the government that he could not question the government or its actions and then told his students to question everything, and in doing so, they questions their elders and the government.
What was the name of the leader of the Athenian army.
Pericles.
Why did the rest of Greece get mad at and rebel against Sparta after the Peloponnesian war?
They ruled harshly.