Ancient Greece

Geography of Greece

100

This type of land feature is surrounded mostly by water. 

Peninsula

200

This body of water extends from Spain to Israel in the north and Morocco to Egypt in the south. 

Mediterranean Sea

300

These bodies of water hug the western and eastern parts of Greece. 

Ionian Sea and Aegean Sea

400

This food is a staple item grown in the Greek colonies throughout the ancient world.

Olives

500

The Minoan civilization is what many archaeologists believe is the starting point of this Greek island. 

Crete

Rise of Different Governments

100

This type of government is where one person takes power by force. 

Tyranny

200

In an oligarchy, these group of people are the ruling few that are rich and can either be good or corrupted. 

Aristocrats

300

This country has the oldest monarchy mixed with a democracy. 

Japan

400

Ancient Greeks utilized the direct democracy, while the United States uses this type of democracy.

Representative Democracy

500

The ancient Greeks used this type of broken clay pots to vote someone out of office. 

Ostrakon

Sparta v. Athens

100

This land area is the home to the warrior hoplites. 

Peloponnesus

200

This type of formation is used by the Spartans to defend against long-range or in your face attacks.

Phalanx Formation

300

Spartan oligarchy has this many royals as head of their city-state. 

Two Kings

400

Name three items Spartan women were allowed to do. 

Divorce
Own property
Freedom of speech

500

Athenian women learned these six items at home. 

Cooking

Spinning Thread
Cleaning
Weaving Cloth
Ancient secret songs
Dances in religious festivals

Greco-Persian War

100

Name the battle that King Leonidas & the 300 Spartans fought against 15,000 Persian army. 

Battle of Thermopylae

200

This Persian king built a bridge at the Hellespont using older boats, lacquer, rope, and resin. 

King Xerxes

300

This Athenian navy general utilized his Triremes against the Persian fleet at the Battle of Salamis.

Themistocles

400

Thanks to the defeat of the Persians at the Battle of Salamis, these two city-states solidified their alliance with one another. 

Athens & Sparta

500

This quote was said every time a Persian servant gave King Xerxes food. 

"Remember what the Greeks did at Marathon."

Alexander the Great & the Legacy of Greece

100

Greek architecture had these three types of style columns. 

Doric, Ionic, & Corinthian

200

This Greek philosopher would be the one who drank poison made of hemlock. 

Socrates

300

Alexander the Great was from this nearby kingdom to the north of Greece. 

Macedonia

400

Alexander the Great married the eldest daughter of this Persian king.

King Darius III

500

Doctors tend to make this oath developed by the Greek father of medicine. 

Hippocrates