Early Greek Civilization
N. The fortified, or strengthened hill of an Ancient Greek city.
What is Acropolis?
N. In Ancient Greece, a scared site where a god or goddess was consulted; an priest or priestess who spoke for gods.
What is oracle?
N. A public market and meeting place in an Ancient Greek city; the agora of Athens when spelled with a capital A
What is agora?
N. A member of a certain class of servants in ancient Sparta
What is helot?
N. A wild and uncivilized person
What is barbarian?
N. A member of a rich and power family
What is Aristocat?
N. A someone who uses reason to understand the world; in Greece, the earlier philosophers used reason to explain natural events
What is philosopher?
N. A seller of goods
What is vendor?
N. A widespread disease
What is plague?
V. To murder for political reasons
What is assassinate?
N. A ruler who takes power by force
What is tyrant?
Why do you think Pericles called Athens “the school for all Greece”?
What is many things were reformed/things were refreshed?People had to learn new laws
N. Condition of being opened by, and forced to work for, someone else.
What is slavery?
N. An action taken to isolate an enemy and cut off its supplies
What is blockshade?
Adj. Descirbing Greek history or culture after the death of Alexander the Great, including the three main introns formed by the breakup of Alexander’s empire.
What is Hellenistic?
N. A form of government in which citizens govern themselves.
What is democracy?
What were the goals of Greek art?
What is two goals of Greek art were to express Greek belief and show beauty in architecture?
What activities took place in the ágoras of ancient Greece?
What is people traded crops for goods, held meetings, held political and religious assemblies?
What do you think was at stake for the people of Athens at Battle of Marathon?
What is marathon was only 25 miles north of Athens, so the freedom of the people of Athens was at stake at the Battle or Marathon?
Who was Alexander’s tutor when he was young?
What is philosopher Aristotle?
Describe the geographic setting and major landforms of ancient Greece.
What is Greece is a peninsula? it’s also small and rocky. Mountains are the major landform, Greece is good for growing crops so they become good traders and sailors. Some Greeks lived on sePerales by mountains. The Greeks fought each other, but they shared the same heritage, language, and gods.
What does Greek art, both visual and literary, tell us about the Greeks and their culture?
What is sophisticated, great deal of emphasis on literature and art, valued beauty and perfection?
Describe the home life of the Greeks.
What is homes were simple, made of mud bricks and the design was several rooms situated around an open courtyard? Some had baths, but water had to be carried from a public fountain. Meals were simple, until evening when the meal was hot and sometimes included meat.
How might the history of Greece have changed if the Persians had succeeded at marathon?
What is if the Persians had succeeded at Marathon, it is possible that the Persians could have taken over Athens (the most powerful city-state) and eventually gained control of all of Greece expanding into the Persian empire?
What was the importance of Alexandria, Egypt?
What is Alexandria, an important city of the ancient world? For more than two thousands years, it was the largest city in Egypt and was its capital for almost half of that time. As an important trading post between Europe and Asia, it profited from the easy overland connection between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.