Ancient Greece Vocab
Ancient Greek Cities
Ancient Greece Geography
Ancient Greece Achievements
Trojan War
100
A traditional story that is made up and usually teaches a lesson
Myth
100
Which of the main city states in Ancient Greece focuses more on War?
Sparta
100
This is how you would describe the landscape of Greece
What is very mountainous with valleys and some rivers?
100
Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Homer
100
The story that tells of the Trojan War
The Odyssey
200
What is another name for a city-state?
Polis
200
True or false, Greece valued order and beauty.
True
200
Where is the home of the Gods
Mt. Olympus
200
Column type seen here
What is Corinthian?
200
Who wrote the Odyssey
Who is Homer
300
A government ruled by a small group of elite, landowning families.
What is an aristocracy?
300
The "face who launched a thousand ships". (The name must also include the city.)
Who was Helen of Troy?
300
This is the body of water between Greece and Turkey
What is the Aegean Sea?
300
First recorded female mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and teacher in Ancient Greece
Who is Hypatia?
300
What two cities fought in the Trojan war?
The anatolian city of Troy and the Greeks
400
True or False, an Epic poem always has a hero.
What is true.
Bonus Points: what does the challenge a hero faces demand? (3 things).
400
"Know Thyself?" is written on the entrance to the Oracle Temple at _____.
What is Delphi?
400
Led by the Spartan Warrior-King, Leonidas, the small force of 300 guarded this mountain/sea pass.
Thermopylae
400
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?
400
Who is the main hero in the Odyssey?
Who is Odysseus
500
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?
500
Regarded as the founder of Athenian Democracy. (507 BCE)
Who is Cleisthenes?
500
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
500
What was one new Genre the Ancient Greek Literacy/Plays brought forth?
Comedy, History, or Tragedy
500
A huge wooden horse used to infiltrate the city of Troy
What is the Trojan Horse
600
What is an Oligarchy?
a government ruled by a few powerful citizens
600
Which city-state were the Arts most important too?
Athens
600
A citadel or fortified part of an ancient Greek city, typically built on a hill. (p 132)
What is the Acropolis?
600
These are 2 crops grown/harvested in ancient Greece
What are grapes, olives, wheat, barley, and/or figs.
600
The name of the woman who was in the middle of the Trojan War
Helen
700
The type of democracy where a person is chosen or appointed to act or speak for another or others.
Representative Democracy
700
Who was allowed to partake in education in Athens?
Only Males
700
The three bodies of water that surround the peninsula of Greece are:
Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, Mediterranean Sea
700
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
700
Why did the Trojan War occur
What is, the Prince of Troy stole the King of Sparta's wife.
800
Cruel and oppressive government or rule
Tyranny
800
True/False A oligarchy allows the people to have the most participation in their government.
False
800
Greece's geography produces what types of foods?
olives, olive oil, lamb, fish, squid, chickpeas, grapes
800
True or False. Aristotle ran through the streets shouting "Eureka"!
False. (Archimedes)
800
True or False: The Trojan war is fiction
True; though speculated to fact based on archaeological findings.
900
The definition of the word agora?
The city's marketplace and social center
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
Identify this body of water
What is the Ionian Sea?
900
Socrates taught Aristotle who later went on to teach Plato.
False
900
Who won the Trojan War?
What is the Greeks.
1000
The economy of Athens was based on trade.
True
1000
________________ wanted to make Athens more democratic.
Who is Pericles?
1000
What league was created after the Persian War?
What is the Delian League?
1000
Known as "lovers of wisdom" rejected the idea that gods and goddesses influenced human behavior.
Who are philosophers?
1000
The present day region thought to be the location of the city of Troy.
What is Turkey