Vocabulary
A piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
Greece is made up of mountain ranges, deep valleys, and rough ________________.
What are highlands?
The ancient Greeks worshiped many gods or __________.
What are deities?
To give and get
What is to trade?
Plays were either tragedies or ___________________.
What are comedies?
A being with supernatural powers.
What is a deity?
The __________________ made much of the land unusable for farming and dived the people.
What are mountains?
Greek gods were believed to look and behave like ________, although they had special powers.
What are humans?
Silver, jewelry, pottery, olive oil and wine
What did the Greeks trade?
\Hippocrates studied the cause of diseases. He is often called the father of ___________.
What is medicine?
Worshiping more than one god.
What is polytheism?
Greeks lived on the _______________ tip of the Balkan Peninsula.
What is southern?
Greeks honors their gods with religious rituals, temples and ____________ ____________.
What are athletic contests?
Another word for currency
What is coin or drachma?
Greek philosophers studied truth and _________.
What is knowledge?
Ruled by a single king.
What is a monarch?
The seas helped the Greeks become excellent _______ and sailors.
What are traders?
The Greeks wrote myths to tell about Greek gods and _________.
What are heroes?
The animal on the Athenian coin.
What is an owl?
The Parthenon was built to honor the goddess _____.
Who is Athena?
Ruled by a wealthy families.
What is an aristocracy?
The three seas near Greece are:
Mediterranean Sea
Aegean Sea
and ____________________.
What is Ionian Sea?
The Greeks created myths to ___________.
What is to explain things they did not understand?
The shopping centers in Ancient Greece were called _________.
What are agoras?
The three types of architectural columns are Doric, ionic and ____________.
What is corinthian?