A traditional story that is made up and usually teaches a lesson
Myth
Which of the main city states in Ancient Greece focuses more on War?
Sparta
This is how you would describe the landscape of Greece
What is very mountainous with valleys and some rivers?
Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Homer
What is another name for a city-state?
Polis
True or false, Greece valued order and beauty.
True
Where is the home of the Gods
Mt. Olympus
Column type seen here
What is Corinthian?
A type of leadership where only a few wealthy people or merchants run the government.
What is an oligarchy?
The "face who launched a thousand ships". (The name must also include the city.)
Who was Helen of Troy?
This is the body of water between Greece and Turkey
What is the Aegean Sea?
First recorded female mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and teacher in Ancient Greece
Who is Hypatia?
True or False. Spartan citizens owned land, but could not farm it.
What is true. Farming the land was the job of the Helots. p 133
"Know Thyself?" is written on the entrance to the Oracle Temple at _____.
What is Delphi?
Led by the Spartan Warrior-King, Leonidas, the small force of 300 guarded this mountain/sea pass.
Thermopylae
This style of art: Instead of the wall drying fully the color is painted on while it is wet and used mainly used for more detailed walls.
What is Fresco Secco?
This was a battle strategy where Greek warriors would crouch together to create a wall using their shields. It was eventually adopted by the Romans.
What is a Phalanx?
Regarded as the founder of Athenian Democracy. (507 BCE)
Who is Cleisthenes?
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
What was one new Genre the Ancient Greek Literacy/Plays brought forth?
Comedy, History, or Tragedy
The Greek hoplite was names after this unique shield. What is the name of the shield?
Hoplon
Which city-state were the Arts most important too?
Athens
What is the Acropolis?
These are 2 crops grown/harvested in ancient Greece
What are grapes, olives, wheat, barley, and/or figs.
The type of democracy where a person is chosen or appointed to act or speak for another or others.
Representative Democracy
Who was allowed to partake in education in Athens?
Only Males
The three bodies of water that surround the peninsula of Greece are:
Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, Mediterranean Sea
Every four years, a competition of games for Greek athletes took place in Olympia to honor ______________. This was the beginning of the Olympic games.
Zeus
Cruel and oppressive government or rule
Tyranny
True/False A oligarchy allows the people to have the most participation in their government.
False
Greece's geography produces what types of foods?
olives, olive oil, lamb, fish, squid, chickpeas, grapes
True or False. Aristotle ran through the streets shouting "Eureka"!
False. (Archimedes)
The definition of the word Helot
A captured person enslaved by the Spartans
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?
Identify this body of water
What is the Ionian Sea?
Socrates taught Aristotle who later went on to teach Plato.
False
The economy of Sparta was based on trade.
False
________________ wanted to make Athens more democratic.
Who is Pericles?
What league was created after the Persian War?
What is the Delian League?
Known as "lovers of wisdom" rejected the idea that gods and goddesses influenced human behavior.
Who are philosophers?