Geography
The geographical feature of Greece.
What is mountainous?
A form of government in which a few men rule.
What is an oligarchy?
Sparta was famous for this.
What was military way of life?
Socrates taught by this method.
What was asking questions, the Socratic method.
It was the temple that honored the goddess Athena.
What was the Parthenon?
These two Greek city states joined forces in 480 BC to fight against the Persians.
What were Athens and Sparta?
Supernatural stories told to explain natural phenomenon, moral ideas or mysteries of the past.
What is a myth?
This Greek philosopher taught Alexander the Great to love philosophy and Greek culture.
Who was Aristotle?
A landmass that is surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
Under the rule of Solon, these people got the right to participate in government, --to vote and speak in the Assembly.
Who were citizens, all free adult men in Athens?
Wealthy Athenian boys learned this to be ready to participate in the assembly.
What is public speaking?
Socrates was sentenced to death for this reason.
What was qustioning the authority of the gods?
Greeks invented these two kinds of drama that are still used today.
What were tragedy and comedy?
A messenger ran from this place to Athens after the Athenians defeated the Persians there.
What was Marathon?
The Greeks believed their gods and goddesses lived here.
What is Mount Olympus?
Alexander the Great was able to stretch his empire to this region in the east.
What was the Indus River?
Continent where the city-states of Athens and Sparta are located.
What is Europe?
This kind of leader seized power through the use of force, instead of inheriting power like a king.
Who is a tyrant?
Agora, the market place, also had this function in the Greek society.
What was a meeting place where people came for political and religious assemblies.
Plato created this place for students, philosophers, and scientists to discusss ideas.
What was the Academy?
Because of this, many later historians modeled their works after Thucydides, one of the greatest of the Greek historians.
What was his effort of trying to be neutral in his writing of the Peloponnesian War.
The Spartans won the Peloponnesian War after the Athenians were significantly weakened after their attempt of conquering this island.
What was Sicily Island?
Aesop is famous for these short stories that teach moral lessons with animal characters.
What were fables.
While Alexander supported the spread of Greek culture, he applied this culture policy toward the conquered people, which gave birth to the Hellenistic culture.
What was allowing them to keep their own customs and traditions.
The sea that Greeks traveled to establish colonies and trade with others.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
He is considered as the father of democracy.
Who was Cleisthenes?
Spartan women had these rights that other Greek women didn't have.
They could own land in Sparta and run their households when their husbands were gone.
Aristotle taught that people should live this kind of life.
What is life of moderation, or balance, based on reason.
He is considered the greatest Greek doctor.
Who is Hippocrates?
The Athenians defeated the Persian navy in the narrow straits of this place.
What was Salamis?
Homer wrote these two great epic poems.
What are Iliad and Odyssey?
Alexander died at age 33 after he got sick in this city in 323 B.C.
What was Babylon?
Cities and surrounding land that acted like their own country.
What were polis, city-states?
Representative democracy is different from direct democracy in these ways.
What are citizens elect representatives to vote for them, seperation of power, and all citizens- men and women- have the right to vote.
Athens formed this alliance with other city-states and turned into an Athenian empire.
What was the Delian League?
Plato's idea of an ideal society as described in his famous work The Republic.
What was a society that is based on justice and fairness to everyone and run by philosophers.
Greek scientist Archimedes invented this farming device.
What was water screw?
The Persian arm was really powerful because of these strategies.
What was using cavalry to charge at an enemy before sending the Immortals.
Ways that Greek gods and goddesses play an important part in the lives of the Athenians.
Greeks tried to explain natural phenomenons by the deeds of gods. They worshiped them and asked them for advice or help.
After Alexander died, his empire was divided into these three kingdoms.
What were Hellenistic Macedonia, Hellenistic Syria, Hellenistic Egypt?