Ancient Greece Vocab
Ancient Greek Cities
Ancient Greece Geography
Ancient Greece Achievements
100
A traditional story that is made up and usually teaches a lesson
Myth
100
Which of the main city states in Ancient Greece was known for its military strength?
What is Sparta?
100
This covered 75% of Greek land.
What are mountains?
100
A known feature of Greek architecture.
What are columns?
200
What is another name for a city-state?
Polis
200
Only these group of people were allowed to vote in Athens.
Who were male citizens?
200
The home of the gods and goddesses.
Where is Mt. Olympus? 
200
Name a Greek word we use in the English language.
300
A political system that is a legacy from ancient Athens.
What is democracy?
300
This city state is known for its pottery, bronze statues, and vase painting.
What is Corinth?
300
How did living near water influence the Greeks?
-Expert sailors
-Good fishermen
-Seafood Diet
-Sea trade & travel
300
Name 2 famous Greek mathematicians.
Who are Pythagoras? Euclid? Archimedes?
400
The central meeting place of ancient Greeks. Also served as a marketplace.
What is an agora?
400
The patron goddess of this city-state is the goddess of wisdom. An owl is her symbol
What is Athens? / Who is Athena?
400
A piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
400
A commander in the army at 16 and a ruler at the age of 20.
Who is Alexander the Great?
500
A location at the top of the hill in the center of a polis.
What is an acropolis?
500
A lover of, or searcher for, wisdom or knowledge.
Also a thinker.
What is a philosopher?
500
How did the climate of Greece influence people?
-Light clothing
-Lots of time spent outdoors
500
Every four years, a competition of games for Greek athletes took place in Olympia to honor ______________. This was the beginning of the Olympic games.
Who is Zeus?
600
True or False: a Slave could become a citizen
What is false?
600
This city-state refused to send supplies and troops during the Persian invasion when Athens and Sparta asked.
What is Argos?
600
Approximately how many islands make up Greece.
What is 1200?
600
Three crops that grown in Greece. 
What are grapes, olives, wheat, barley, and figs?
700
The first Greek gods overthrown by the Olympians.
Who were the Titans?
700
Byzas, a person from this city state, founded the great city of Byzantium.
Who is Megara?
700
How did mountains influence the ancient Greeks?
-Less land for farming, need for trade
-Natural defense
-Isolated
700
Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Homer
800
What the word Hellens mean.
What is Greek?
800
Unlike other city-state, this polis was ruled by 2 kings.
What is Sparta?
800
What we call land usable for farming.
What is arable?
800
True or False: Aristotle's writings strongly influenced the writing of the United States Constitution.
What is true?
900
A group of Greek city-states allied together led by Athens.
What is the Delian league?
900
An Athenian messenger ran 26 miles back to Athens to report the victory over the Persians at the Battle of ______ and died from exhaustion
What is Marathon?
900
Name 2 bodies of water that surround the peninsula of Greec.
What are Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, Mediterranean Sea?
900
Long narrative or story describing a hero's adventures
What is an epic?
1000
A person that was captured and enslaved by Sparta.
What is a helot?
1000
All citizens could attend this meeting where people voted and laws were passed.
What is assembly?
1000
This is the name given to the peninsula which extends off the bottom part of Greece
a) Argos
b) Corinth
c) Peloponnesus
d) Athens
e) Megara
What is the c) Peloponnesian Peninsula
1000
Someone or something that can predict the future
What is an Oracle?
