Ancient Greece Vocabulary
A traditional story and they aren't exactly true
Myth
City in Ancient Greece preoccupied with War
What is Sparta
What is something that Ancient Greece did to keep intruders out?
Walls
God of Thunder and Hospitality
Who is Zeus
To encourage certain behavior of a person
Influence
City state in Ancient Greece treated women more poorly than some
What is Athens?
Where is the home of the Gods
Mt. Olympus
God of the Ocean
who is Poseidon
The act of creating settlements in other places that are considered to be part of your nation.
What is Colonization?
Sparta and Athens both had what in common?
Shat is slavery, women being low, same religion and language
What had columns on them in Ancient Greece?
Temples or Important buildings
This was the general meeting that decided laws in Athens
What is The Assembly?
Requirements for citizenship in Athens.
What is must be born in Athens, free, adult male?
What is the Agora?
Public space/market in Ancient Greece
God of War
Who is Ares
Everyone's equal and have the same rights and opportunities no matter the race or gender
Equality
What type of Government did Athens first practice?
Monarchy
Modern name for the land to the East .of Greece
What is Turkey?
Goddess of of Wisdom
Who is Athena
Born in Macedonia, this man conquered Greece Egypt and Persia
City where Arts were important.
What are Athens and/or Corinth?
What is 1400?
Goddess of Love
Aphrodite
A person chosen or appointed to act or speak for another or others
Representative
Allowed to partake in schooling in Athens?
What is only males?
Name for land that is surrounded on three sides by water
What is a peninsula?
Goddess of Hunting
Artemis
Cruel and oppressive government or rule
Tyranny
How old do citizens have to be to vote? Even in Ancient Greece
18
Mountains, rivers, shoreline, seas and oceans, swamps
What are geographic features/landforms?
God of Archery and Music
Apollo
This type of person was a kind of ruler in Ancient Greece and initially was very popular.
What is a Tyrant?
What was Sparta's main value?
What is victory at war?
arable
What is land that is easy to farm?
Messenger God
Hermes
Government, a small group of, usually well off people having control over a country or organization
Oligarchy
Did most of the household work in Sparta?
What are Helots (Slaves)?
Olives, barley
What was crops in Ancient Greece?
Goddess of the Hearth and Hospitality
Who is Hestia
The name for a city-state
What is a Polis?
City famous for its cultivation of the Arts
What is Corinth?
Biggest body of water that Ancient Greece is located in?
What is the Mediterranean sea
God of Wine
Dionysus
A form of cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals based on asking questions to stimulate critical thinking and to draw out ideas.
What is Socratic Method?
The gathering where the citizens met to debate issues in Athens?
What is The Assembly?
What is the building dedicated to Athena called?
The Parthenon
Goddess of Marriage
Hera