Vocab
A Greek city-state
What is a Polis?
The sea between Greece and Turkey
What is the Aegean Sea?
King of the gods, the thunderer, husband to Hera and a chronic cheater.
Who is Zeus?
What were the two polis that created the Delian and Peloponnesian leagues, and fought against each other during the Peloponnesian war.
Athens and Sparta
The two Empires that Alexander the Great conquered.
Persia and Egypt
Legal member of a country or city-state
What is a Citizen
The sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land
What is the Mediterranean Sea
The god of mischief, trickery, travelers, and the messenger of the gods
Who is Hermes?
The athletic games that brought all Greek cities together once a year. All conflicts stopped during this major event.
What are the Olympics
Alexander the Great's father, who conquered and united Greece.
Phillip II of Macedon
Government in which citizens take part directly in the day-to-day affairs of government
What is Direct Democracy?
Daily Double: Name 4 out of the 6 gods that can call Zeus their father
Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Heracles
What Polis are considered the founders of direct democracy, and require active participation in government from all citizens.
What is Athens
Name on of the 3 ways that we think Alexander the Great died.
Poisoning, Alcohol Poisoning, or Malaria
Man Responsible for the day-to-day operation of the government in Sparta
What is an Ephor?
The long island that Minoan civilization, an ancient Greek culture, existed on.
What is Crete?
The king of Ithaca, Odysseus, had a long a perilous journey home from the Trojan War. What was the name of the epic poem that details this journey?
The Odyssey
Name one of the two ancient Greek cultures that came before the Greek Dark ages
Minoan and Mycenean
The name of Alexander the Great's horse.
Bucephalus
18-foot-long Macedonian Pike
The mountain where Sparta left children with deformities to die of exposure.
What is Mount Taygetos?
The mythical Greek King that chopped up his son Pelops, served him to the gods in stew, and now is tortured in Tartarus. This torture consists of standing in a pool of water that he cannot drink from while food dangles above his head, and he will never be able to reach either.
Who is Tantalus?
Who believed that asking questions was the best way to learn, and was later taken to trial for corrupting the youth.
The library that made it their goal to acquire a copy of every book in the world.
The Great Library of Alexandria