Ancient Greece Vocabulary
Ancient Greece
Government
Government
Ancient Greek
City- States
City- States
Ancient Greek
Geography
Geography
Ancient Greek
Mythology
Mythology
Ancient Greece
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
100
A traditional story and they aren't exactly true
Myth
100
This city-state was the first to conceive or and introduced democracy.
What is Sparta?
100
A prominent Greek city-state whose primary focus was on military warfare.
What is Sparta?
100
Name this country.
What is Greece?
100
The sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus.
Who is Zeus?
100
Long narrative or story describing a hero's adventures
What is an epic?
200
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?
200
A captured person enslaved by the Spartans
What is a helot?
200
A powerful coastal Greek city-state known for being a centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, and the home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum.
What is Athens?
Plato was a Greek philosopher. Aristotle studied at Plato's academy and became known as his greatest student. Soon after, Aristotle became a tutor to the young Alexander-The-Great. Later on, Aristotle founded the greatest educational institute the world had ever seen, The Lyceum in Athens. https://youtu.be/JViZmgQA-Po
200
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Describe the landscape (physical features of land) of Greece.
What is rocky, mountainous, and infertile?
200
In ancient Greek religion, god of the sea (and of water generally), earthquakes, and horses.
Who is Poseidon?
200
Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Who was Homer?
300
An athenian naval ship
What is a Trireme?
300
The Parthenon was built in honor of this wise and well-known Greek goddess.
Who is Athena?
300
In ancient Greece, only ______ were allowed to be educated in schools.
Who are boys? (males)
300
The highest mountain in Greece, and home of the Greek Gods.
What is Mt. Olympus?
300
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, these twelve gods are the major deities of the Greek pantheon, commonly considered to be Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Demeter, Aphrodite, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Ares, Hephaestus, Hermes, and either Hestia or Dionysus.
Who are the twelve Olympians?
300
These two epic poems tell of historic events and heroic deeds during and after the Trojan War in ancient Greece.
What is the Iliad and Odyssey?
400
Citizen-soldiers of Ancient Greek city-states who were primarily armed with spears and shields.
What is a Hoplite?
400
Political officials in Greek democracy were, in large part, choose by this process.
What is lottery?
What is sortition? (Greek term for the lottery process)
400
An ancient Greek war fought between Athens and Sparta and their respective allies.
What is The Peloponnesian War?
400
This geographical feature formed natural borders between the city-states of Ancient Greece.
What are mountain ranges?
400
This was the term used to describe a tragic flaw in a mortal from Greek Mythology.
(hint: the opposite of humility.)
What is Hubris?
400
The story of Paris which, according to Greek mythology, sparking a vanity-fueled dispute among Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite that eventually led to the Trojan War.
What is The Apple of Discord?
500
Polis' is the greek word for this political territory
What is a city state?
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
This league was an association of Greek city-states, numbering between 150 and 330, under the leadership of Athens.
What is the Delian League?
500
These cliffs on the coast make it difficult to access the sea.
What are promontories?
500
This type of myth seeks to answer BIG questions such as "How did we get here?"
What is a creation myth?
500
The idea that the events of a person's life are determined by supernatural forces (gods and goddesses).
(Hint: opposite of Free Will)
What is Fate?
600
A wooden horse said to have been used to enter the city of Troy and win the war.
What was the Trojan Horse?
600
A type of government where only a few wealthy people (elite) run the government.
What is an oligrachy?
600
This isthmian Polis (city-state) located between two Gulfs rivaled Athen's in naval power and wealth.
What is the city-state of Corinth?
600
This is the name given to the peninsula which extends off the bottom part of Greece.
What is the Peloponnesian Peninsula?
600
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An ancient Greek goddess associated with wisdom, warfare, and protectress of various cities across Greece, particularly the city of Athens.
Who is Athena?
600
This term describes the showing of kindness toward strangers; the Greeks believed that the gods honored those who helped others.
What is Hospitality?
700
The five leaders in Sparta who were chosen to oversee the Spartan kings. They were elected annually.
Who were the ephors?
700
The Greeks are often credited with pioneering a democratic government that went on to influence the structure of this North American country.
What is the United States?
700
Identify 5 Greek City States
What is Sparta, Athens, Delphi, Thebes, Argos, Corinth, Megara, Ithaca, Olympia?
700
This land mass connects the southern Greek region of Peloponnesus with the rest of the Greek mainland?
What is the Isthmus?
700
The daughter of Zeus and Demeter. She became the queen of the underworld after her abduction by and marriage to her uncle Hades
Who is Persephone?
700
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A supernatural female creature, with 12 feet and six heads on long snaky necks, each head having a triple row of sharklike teeth.
Who is Scylla?
800
A public space in ancient Greece
What is the Agora?
800
The place where issues were decided and voted on by all eligible adult citizens.
What is the Assembly?
800
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A fortified part of an ancient Greek city, typically built on a hill.
What is the Acropolis?
800
This powerful southwestern region invaded Greece in hopes of expanding their empire in a series of two wars.
Who is Persia?
800
The lack of this caused Orpheus to turn back to see if his beloved Eurydice was following behind him, thus sending her back to be trapped in Hades' reign forever.
What is his Faith?
800
Athena disguises Odysseus as this person so that he can gain information without being recognized upon his return home to Ithica.
What is a beggar?
900
A person considered to provide wise prophetic predictions about the future, inspired by deities.
What is an Oracle?
900
The act of citizens voting to send a person into exile for 10 years.
What is an ostracism?
900
Members of the Delian and Peloponnesian League were required to swear this formal promise of allegiance.
(_______: a formal promise to do something or a formal statement that something is true)
What is an Oath?
900
This is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands. Located in the in the Mediterranean Sea this is the sight of the first Greek Civilization.
What is Crete?
900
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This Greek hero was pierced by an arrow in the Trojan War
Who is Achilles
900
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Penelope reveals that she will conduct a contest (challenge) involving a feat that only Odysseus has been able to perform. What is this challenge Penelope presents to the suitors?
What is stringing Odyssey great bow and shooting an arrow through a straight row of twelve axes?