Governments
What is a government?
This form of government in which the citizens make political decisions.
What is democracy?
The Greek word for a city-state.
What is a polis?
The Olympic Games honor this God.
Who is Zeus?
What is the Hare and the Tortoise?
This form of government was controlled by a leader who commanded the army and had judicial powers.
What is, a monarchy?
This type of democracy is when the citizens all take part in the government.
What is direct democracy?
In the Battle of Thermopylae, this Greek city-state helped the Athenians to defeat the Persians
What is Sparta?
The Greeks created the Games as a holy festival to honor the gods. But the Olympics honored this God
Who is Zeus?
This ancient writer wrote both the Iliad and the Odyssey
Who is Homer?
This form of government is run by a family who inherited power and wealth. They can be called a noble.
What is an aristocracy?
What is indirect democracy?
A center in a city, that was an open space where people came for business and public gatherings.
What is an Agora?
The Olympic Games began in this year as a way to bring city-states together. They even stopped wars to participate in the games.
These long poems told stories of heroes, wars, and adventures.
What is an epic poem?
Different city-states had different forms of this, and some city-states kept it the same or it can slowly change over time.
What is, a form of government?
This leader of Athens reformed the government by taking away all the power from the nobles.
Who is Cleisthenes?
This Greek city-state did not let its women become citizens, they remained uneducated, unlike their male counterparts.
What is Athens?
These Greeks could participate in the Ancient Olympic Games, and only these Greeks could attend and sometimes compete in the Hera Games.
Who are free Greek men and unmarried Greek women?
This literary work is usually a made up short story, that usually includes animals and a moral.
What is a fable?
This form of government played an important role in the development of the rule of the people. They could potentially show and help the common people to rise up.
What is a tyrant?
In Greece, a person who is born to parents who are free, and can take part in ruling the city-state.
Who is a citizen?
The Greek word for "highest city", it is a fortified hilltop, where it was mainly used for military purposes.
What is an acropolis?
This is a unit of time that was created for the Olympic Games that happened every four years.
What is an olympiad?
This hero took a long journey home that was laid out by the Gods, that made him face many perils, monsters, and dangers.
Who is Odysseus?