Ancient Greece Vocabulary
Ancient Greece Cities
Ancient Greece Geography
Ancient Greece Achievements
Ancient Greece Gods
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A government run by two or more leaders who are usually rich business owners or Kings.
What is an oligarchy
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Who were the Arts most important to?
Athens
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What made farming difficult in Greece?
There were only a few rivers and the soil was rocky.
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What did Alexander the great achieve?
Alexander the Great, a Macedonian king, conquered the eastern Mediterranean, Egypt, the Middle East, and parts of Asia.
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Goddess of Love
Aphrodite
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The building on the Acropolis that's the temple to Athena:
What is the Parthenon?
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What type of government did Sparta have?
Oligarchy
(Two kings)
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What sea is south of Greece?
Mediterranean Sea
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Who taught the last famous leader of all Greeks named Alexander the Great?
Aristotle
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God of Wine
Dionysus
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The 'shoulder-to-shoulder' military formation invented by the Greeks
What is the Phalanx?
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What were the kingdoms after Alexander the Great died.
Macedonia, Egypt, and Syria.
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How did Greece's mountains and valleys affect life there?
It provided isolation from others and also protection because it was hard to travel through.
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Which leader was considered the father of democracy and tried to spread democracy across Greece?
Pericles
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Goddess of Marriage
Hera
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A traditional story about gods and heroes that isn't exactly true
What is a myth?
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The war between the two city states, Athens and Sparta
What is the Peloponnesian War?
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What is something that Ancient Greece did to keep intruders out?
They built a walled fortress on a hill in the middle of their polis (city).
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The five-day festival for Zeus was called...
The Olympics
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God of Thunder
Who is Zeus
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A belief in many gods or goddesses
What is polytheism?
(Polytheistic)
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Who was Sparta's Patron
Who is Ares?
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What is land surrounded by water on three sides called?
A peninsula.
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Who won the battle of Marathon?
Sparta
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God of the Ocean
who is Poseidon
300
A belief in only one God
What is monotheism?
300
The Greek city-states have in common
What are the same religion and same language.
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Since Ancient Greece didn't have a major river for resources, what did the sea provide for them?
Trade & travel.
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What is the main oath for a Doctor of Medicine
The Hippocratic Oath
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God of Underworld
Who is Hades
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A government run by the people who vote:
What is democracy?
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They were considered citizens in Athens
What are free males born in Greece?
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Which two global hemispheres is Greece located in?
Northern and Eastern.
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Who created the Hippocratic Oath
Who is Hippocrates?
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God of War
Who is Ares
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The type of government with one king like the one Corinth had
What is a Monarchy?
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The type of Government did Athens practiced
What is democracy?
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Where were the Olympics held?
Olympia
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What was one new genre in reading that was started by Ancient Greeks?
Mythology
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God of Wisdom
Athena
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A democracy where others are chosen to make decisions for the people:
What is a Representative Democracy?
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Who was allowed to partake in education in Athens?
Only Males
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What continent is Greece on?
Europe
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What is this a picture of?
What is the Parthenon?
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Goddess of Hunting
Artemis
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A democracy where people vote directly on decisions:
What is a Direct Democracy?
700
How old was a Spartan boy when he was first taken from his family to begin his military training?
7
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Which sea is west of Greece?
The Ionian Sea
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What was Plato's School for Philosophy named?
The Academy.
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God of Archery and Music
Apollo
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Name the two types of plays invented by the Greeks that are funny and sad
What are comedies and tragedies?
800
What was Sparta's main value/focus?
The military/ war.
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What sea is east of Greece?
The Aegean Sea
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What did the teacher Socrates try and get people to do?
Think for themselves and question the way things are.
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Messenger God
Hermes
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A high hill with a fortress for protection in the center of Athens?
What is an acropolis?
900
Who was the biggest enemy of Ancient Greece?
Persians
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What was the staple crop in Ancient Greece?
Olives
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What was the method called that wanted "Teaching by Questioning"
Socratic Method
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Goddess of Family
Hestia