Ancient Greece Vocab
Ancient Greek Cities
Ancient Greece Geography
Ancient Greece Achievements
Ancient Greece Gods/myths
Ancient Greece Timeline
100
This is a Polis
What is a city state?
100
A body of land surrounded by 3 sides
What is a peninsula?
100
The Father of History
Herodotus
100
This Greek hero was pierced by an arrow in the Trojan War
Who is Achilles
100
Athens and Sparta united to fight this large empire.
What is the Persian Empire?
200
A type of leadership where only a few wealthy people or merchants run the government.
What is an oligrachy?
200
A group of island
What is an archipelago?
200
Mathematical theorem created by a famous Greek person.
Pythagorean Theorem
200
This is the name of the daughter kidnapped by Zeus when he turned into a bull, and taken to the island of Crete where she would give birth to king Minos.
Who is Europa?
200
Athens emerged as the most powerful city state and served as the leader of this organization of Greek City States.
What is the Delian League?
300
True or False a Slave could buy themselves out of slavery in Ancient Greece
What is true?
300
Which city-state were the Arts most important to?
Athens
300
The Greek name for the Independent City States that developed due to Greece's geography that made it hard to travel
What is a polis?
300
The Greeks built these outdoor theaters for entertainment.
What is an ampitheater?
300
God of Archery and Music
Apollo
300
Greece declined as a result of this war.
The war between Athens and Sparta (Peloponnesian War)
400
This means rule by the people
What is democracy?
400
This was the group that was allowed to vote in ancient Greece.
Who are free males?
400
Greece did not have a lot of arable land which led to this.
Why did Greece have a small population.
400
What was one new Genre that Ancient Greek Literacy/Plays brought forth?
Drama, Comedy, or Tragedy
400
Wife of Hades
Who is Persephone?
400
King Philip was leader of this area north of Athens.
What is Macedonia?
500
The type of democracy where a person is chosen or appointed to act or speak for another or others (found in Athens)
Representative Democracy
500
Please identify 5 Greek City States
What is Sparta, Athens, Delphi, Thebes, Argos, Corinth, Megara, Ithaca, Olympia?
500
Good sailors and fishermen.
What were Greeks good at since they are surrounded by water?
500
Father of Medicine
Who is Hippocrates?
500
This Greek God emerged fully formed from Zeus' head
Who is Athena
500
He created an empire that spanned 3 continents in 12 years.
Who is Alexander the Great?
600
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?
600
These are the 3 types of Columns the greeks were known for inventing
What are Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian?
600
Goddess of the hearth and fire
Who is Hestia
600
The mixing of Greek culture with other cultures such Middle Eastern, and Asian, that spread during the reign of Alexander the Great and lasted for 300 years until the emergence of the Roman Empire.
What is Hellenistic Culture?
700
Name this Greek and the city state he led
Who is Pericles and he led Athens?
700
Identify this Goddess
Who is Iris the fleet-footed messenger of the gods, had her own path down to earth.
Dressed in a gown of iridescent drops, she ran along the rainbow on her busy
errands between Olympus and earth.
700
They divided up Alexander's empire after he died.
Who were his generals.
800
This was the name of the Roman emperor who ended the Olympic games in the year 391 C.E.
A) Pythagoras
B) Theodosius
C) Socrates
D) Euripides
E) Alexander the Great
F) Aristotle
Who is B) Theodosius
