Vocabulary
An independent, self-governing city and its surrounding territories
What is a city-state?
Known as the king of the gods
Who is Zeus?
From an early age, Spartan boys were trained to be ______________ and serve their city-state until they were sixty years old
What is soldiers/warriors?
He wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
Who is Homer?
What is oligarchy?
Fortress often on a hill in the middle of a large city-state
What is an acropolis?
Living area of most Greek gods and goddesses
What is Mount Olympus?
Believed knowledge was power (intellectual might)
What is Athens?
This famous philosopher taught his students by asking questions in search of the truth and believed one should never stop looking for knowledge.
Who is Socrates?
This acropolis is considered to be one of the greatest feats of Greek architecture
What is the Parthenon?
Government rule by the people themselves
What is a democracy?
Creator of the seasons
Who is Demeter?
Officially considered to be the first true Greek civilization
What is Mycenaean civilization?
_______________________ made great advancements in Greek medicine through the study of the human body
Who is Hippocrates?
He was Plato's student whose reasoning skills, including living in moderation, influenced many cultures
Who is Aristotle?
A group of rich land owners
What is aristocrats?
Devine Greek hero who killed the Minotaur
Who is Theseus?
The Peloponnesian League was an alliance that was dominated by this Greek city-state
What is Sparta?
These two ancient Greeks were responsible for much geometry and its formulas
Who is Euclid and Pythagoras?
He's responsible for much of the format and style we see in theaters then and now
Who is Euripides?
A Greek marketplace
What is an agora?
According to Greek mythology, they are the first two deities in the world
Who are Gaea and Uranus?
Spartan soldiers gained full citizenship, could participate in the assembly and move back home at this age
What is age 30?
____________________________ were two of the first ancient Greek historians, considered the Fathers of History
Who is Herodotus & Thucydides?
Minoans created these beautiful painted plaster murals
What is frescoe?