Vocabulary
A settlement in a new territory that keeps close ties to its homeland.
What are colonies?
A body of land surrounded on all sides by water, as is the nation of Greece.
A culture who pursued battle and fighting as a way of life.
What is Sparta?
or Who were Spartans?
Greek author, best remembered for writing hero-based epic poems.
Who is Homer?
Skilled at running, wrestling and throwing the javelin in order to kept fit and become healthy mothers.
What is a Spartan woman?
What is Thermopylae?
A body of land with water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
A city that enjoyed discussing ideas, learning, and pursuit of the arts.
What is Athens?
The father of the gods,including Zeus.
Who is Cronus?
Region of southwestern Asia that was frequently in battles with Greece.
What is Persia?
An open area used for people to meet and to hold an outdoor marketplace.
What is the agora?
Fishing, limited herding of sheep or goats, limited farming of tough plants such as the olive tree.
What are ways ancient Greeks used their surrounding to survive?
Independent city that governs itself but is part of a larger empire.
What is a city state?
Guy who stole another man's wife, igniting a 10 year long war between Greece and Sparta.
Who is Paris?
Brought news from the Peloponnesian war to Athens.
Who was Pheidippides?
(Man who ran 26 miles from Marathon to Athens to declare victory for Greeks in the Battle of Marathon)
A select group create laws for a larger whole group.
What is Representative Democracy?
Mountains and oceans.
Physical land features that separated Greek city-states from one another.
They copied how they worked with bronze and how they built ships. They also learned how to use the sun and stars for directions and to find their way at sea.
What did Mycenaeans learn or copy from the Minoans?
Controllers of destiny including Hermes, Hera, Athena, Aries,and many others.
Who are the Greek gods?
They took loans from the nobles and promised their farms as repayment if they were not able to pay off the loan.
How did ancient Greek farmers often lose their land to nobles?
One Persian religion, today followed by only a small amount of people.
What is Zoroastrianism?
The name used by Greeks when referring to their own country.
What is Hellas?
Between 1100B.C. and 750B.C. Greeks forgot their written language, trade slowed, farmers grew only enough for their family to survive, and many skills were lost.
What are the Greek Dark Ages?
Fought on foot and went into battle armed with a shield, a short sword and a long spear.
What is a hoplite?
Adult male who perhaps owned land and/or had wealth.
What is an ancient Greek citizen?
(this was who was also making laws and voting in Athens)