Early Greeks
What did the Greeks use the sea for?
Food and trade.
What country did ancient Greece's democracy influence?
United States of America.
What is the word for an agreement to work together?
Alliance.
What were some famous fables?
The Tortoise and the Hare
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
Who was the Parthenon built for?
Athena.
What is the Greek word for city-state?
Polis
What did the Greek coins look like?
Greek gods.
How did the Peloponnesian War end?
Sparta won the war.
What is the word for a body of stories about gods or heroes that tries to explain how the world works?
Mythology.
What is the word for clear and ordered thinking?
Reason.
What started the Trojan War?
Mycenaeans attacked Troy.
What are people with the right to participate in government?
Citizens
How did Sparta defeat Athens?
They cut off all food sources.
Who is Athena?
Athena is the goddess of wisdom.
How did Socrates teach people?
By asking questions.
Where did the Minoan civilization develop?
The island of Crete.
What is the word for a leader who rules by the use of force?
Tyrant.
Why did women also receive intense physical training?
Sparta believed it would help women bear healthy children.
What were the Iliad and Odyssey really about?
Deeds of great heroes.
Who was a teacher and thinker, a student of Socrates, and the founder of the Academy.
Plato.
What were two of the earliest cultures in Greece?
Minoans and the Mycenaeans.
Who was the Athenian leader who ruled at the height of Athenian democracy?
Pericles
What did the boys and men in Athens have that women and girls didn't?
They didn't have education or any rights.
How did the Olympics start?
The first Olympics started in honer for Zeus.
Who was a great and influential mathematician.
Euclid.