Geography
The sea that separates Greece from Northern Africa.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
The worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
A famous mathematical formula we still use today to calculate triangles.
What is the Pythagorean theorem?
A membership in a community.
What is citizenship?
List one difference between life in Sparta and life in Athens.
Sparta: women receive more education, boys join the military at age 7, women own property, everyone competes in sports, focus on conquest, oligarchy run by ephors (councilmen), helots (slaves) did all labor
Athens: men receive more education, men join politics at age 18, men own property, strong citizen requirements, focus on trade and negotiation, democracy run by citizens, slaves and freemen did labor
The largest peninsula that extends into Greece.
What is the Peloponnesian Peninsula?
A collection of stories that people tell about their heroes.
What is mythology?
A collection of fables from Ancient Greece that are still being read today.
What are Aesop's Fables?
Rule by many.
What is democracy?
A small, round piece of metal that changed the way things were bought and sold.
What is a coin?
These land formations separated many of the Greek city-states.
What are mountain ranges?
The most famous sport event that honored Zeus.
What were the Olympic Games?
An oath still used by doctor's today that makes them promise to use their knowledge in only ethical ways.
What is the Hippocratic Oath?
A government run by a small group of elites.
What is an oligarchy?
This Macedonian King is remembered for his incredible military tactics as well as spreading Greek ways of thinking throughout the world.
Who is Alexander the Great?
The gods of the Greeks were said to reside here.
What is Mount Olympus?
The brother of Zeus and god of the sea.
Who was Poseidon?
This philosopher was famous for asking questions and developed the modern way of teaching.
Who was Socrates?
The Greek word for city-state and origin of the English words "politics" and "metropolis".
What is a polis?
The large war between Athens and Sparta that destabilized Greece.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
The climate of Greece.
What is the Mediterranean Climate?
The goddess of wisdom and protector of cities.
Who was Athena?
A logical guess to explain an observation developed by Aristotle and still used in science today.
What is a hypothesis?
List three of the requirements to be considered a citizen in Athens.
Being male, owning property, being the grandson and son of citizens, being a freeman, and being over 18 years old.
This battle lasted 10 years and ended with a clever infiltration.
What is the Battle of Troy?