Ancient Greece's Culture
The name of the mystics who could speak to the gods and tell the future.
Oracles
Who conquered all of Greece and spread Greek culture from the Mediterranean to Egypt to India?
Alexander the Great
Being surrounded by water on at least 3 sides is a
peninsula
Athens had the superior _______ while Sparta had the superior _______.
Athens=Navy
Sparta=Army
Who taught the last famous leader of all Greeks named Alexander the Great?
Aristotle
The highest mountain in Greece, home to the Gods.
Mt. Olympus
What made farming difficult in Greece?
There were only a few rivers and the soil was rocky.
Persian Wars were about?
Control of land and power
To participate in the Olympic Games athletes had to be
To be a free man (no slaves) and who spoke Greek.
The Greek city-states have in common
What are the same religion and same language.
Name the three seas that surround Greece. +300 bonus points if you can name which direction each sea is located.
The Aegean Sea (east), Ionian Sea (west), and Mediterranean (south)
Who did the Ionians call upon to help them?
Athens
Name the two types of plays invented by the Greeks that are funny and sad
What are comedies and tragedies?
This form of government has its citizens elect their leaders on their behalf.
Representative Democracy
What is Hellenism?
A process where Greek culture blended with local traditions in the Middle East and Asia.
The Greeks had to establish these areas since their farmland and other natural resources were limited on the mainland.
colonies
What sparked the Peloponnesian Wars?
Athens became too wealthy and powerful among the Greek city-states
What is the main oath for a Doctor of Medicine? Or name the "Father of Medicine"
The Hippocratic Oath or Hippocrates
This form of government has its citizens participate in all steps of lawmaking and voting.
Direct democracy
A famous city in all of Greece, which became the new intellectual center and boasting a famous Lighthouse and the Great Library.
Alexandria, Egypt
What was the staple crop in Ancient Greece?
Olives
Name the two alliances that formed and which major city state each belonged to.
Peloponnesian League=Sparta
The Greeks built most of their temples and government buildings in three types of styles
Doric, Ionic, Corinthian
They controlled land that stretched from Egypt all the way to India.
Persian Empire
These people took advantage of a weakened Greece after the death of Alexander the Great and conquered it definitively.
Romans