Geography of Ancient Greece
Mainland Greece sits on this type of landform surrounded by water on three sides
What is a penninsula?
This form of government was pioneered by Athens
What is democracy?
Unique in ancient Greece, they enslaved their neighbors to commit themselves 100% to military training
Who were the Spartans?
The battle where the outnumbered Greek army won an upset victory against Persia and the runner Pheidippides ran 26.2 miles to deliver the news to Athens before dying of exhaustion.
What is Marathon?
The modern categorization of ancient Greek sculpture that sought an ideal form of the human body (usually male) that sought harmony, order, balance, and proportion
What is classical art?
Greece, along with North Africa, Italy, Spain, Turkey, and France surround this major body of water
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
From the root word "polis" this refers to the activities associated with the governance of a country, especially the debate or conflict among individuals or groups having or hoping to achieve power.
What is politics?
What is a polis?
this fearsome battle formation of the Greeks required intense discipline and training and was the difference in their victory against Persia at Marathon
What is a phalanx?
This athletic contest was held every four years in Greece to honor Zeus, and was revived in 1896 to help promote world peace
What is the Olympics?
The preferred method of travel for Greeks
What is sailing?
A form of government in ancient Greece where the rich nobility ran the government
What is an aristocracy?
Who are the Minoans?
Long thought to be myth/legend, this actual war was the basis of Homer's The Illiad
What was the Trojan War?
Form of entertainment invented by the Greeks that used rehearsed dialogue by actors to tell a story
What is the theatre? What are plays?
Landforms that caused Greeks to be isolated and develop as independent city-states
What are mountains?
A form of government in ancient Greece where only a handful of rich and powerful people rule the government
What is an oligarchy?
The 400 year period from 1150-750 BC following the collapse of Greek civilization after the Mycenean Age and two hundred years before the Persian Wars
What is the Greek Dark Age? What is the Greek Dorian Age?
The approximate weight of a hoplite's gear?
What is 50 pounds?
The tutor of Alexander the Great, this Greek philosopher used logic to ask questions to problems associated in the modern fields of psychology, physics, and biology, providing the basis for what will become the scientific method
Who is Aristotle?
In 490 BC the Persian Army crossed this body of water from Anatolia to attack mainland Greece for the second time.
What is the Aegean Sea
During the Age of Pericles, Athens will evolve to have this form of government where citizens vote not for representatives, but vote instead directly on every single issue
What is direct democracy?
In times of unrest, this powerful noble would seize control of the government by appealing to the common people for support in order to save the city from total rebellion
What was a tyrant?
Civil war fought in response to Athens "bossing around" the other city-states and stealing money from the Delian League
What are the Pelopennisan Wars?
One of the most famous buildings on Earth, it was built atop the Acropolis in Athens to honor the goddess of wisdom, Athena?
What is the Parthenon?