Geography
What landform is surrounded by water on three sides?
What is a peninsula?
Who is the father of comedy?
Who is Aristophanes?
What is a polis?
What is a Greek city-state with its own government?
What is a myth?
What is a story widely believed to be true but is not true?
What is a democracy?
What is a government ruled by the people?
Name 2 crops and 2 types of livestock the ancient Greeks relied on for food.
What are olives, wheat, barley, grapes, and what is sheep and goats?
What did the Greeks believe were the 2 major differences between humans and gods?
What are
1- gods were stronger and had special powers
2- gods were immortal
Which polis saved the day and ended the Persian wars?
What is Athens?
Where did the 12 Olympian gods & goddesses live?
What is Mount Olympus?
Who was the Father of democracy who invited all male citizens to serve on juries?
Who is Pericles?
Why did the Greeks "take to the sea"?
What is
1) the land was too rugged and difficult to travel over
2) to fish because the land was not fertile for crops or livestock
Who was the blind poet who created famous epics? What was one of the epics called?
Who is Homer?
What is The Iliad or The Odyssey?
List 2 ways Athenian life differed from Spartan life.
Sparta= harsh, little trade, stole resources, helots, killed weak children, military school, women had more rights, oligarchy
Athens= free, trade center, education, sailors, art, democracy
Who is the goddess of wisdom?
Which god did people pray to for protection at sea?
Who was the goddess of the moon and hunt? And who was her brother?
Who is Athena?
Who is Poseidon?
Who are Artemis and Apollo?
What does philosophy mean?
What is studying the way we think; lover of wisdom?
Name 2 bodies of water and 2 landforms that make up the Aegean world.
What are
Water- Mediterranean Sea, Aegean Sea, Black Sea, Ionian Seas
Land- Athens, Sparta, Ionian Islands, Mt Olympus, Pindus Mountains
The Olympic games started as a festival to honor who? What are 2 traditions we still practice today?
Who is Zeus?
What are
1) Carrying the torch
2) They take place every 4 years
3) The release of doves
Where would an ancient Greek person go in Athens to shop, go to temple or visit a government building?
What is the agora?
What term is used to describe the belief in more than one god?
What is polytheism?
What did the famous philosopher Democritus discover?
What are atoms?
____ was to the Greeks as ____ was to the Egyptians.
What is the sea was to the Greeks as the Nile River was to the Egyptians?
What famous ancient Greek architecture is used today on the outside of the White House to represent democracy?
What are columns?
Who was the Greek historian who wrote about the Persian wars?
Who is Herodotus?
Why did the Greeks tell mythological stories?
What is to explain the natural world that they did not have scientific knowledge to explain?
Which Greek philosopher questioned the gods and why?
Who is Socrates? Because he thought there might be another explanation for what he observed around him.