Vocabulary
A Greek city-state
What is Polis?
Seas by which Greece is surrounded.
What are: Mediterranean, Ionian and Agean?
The God of war
who is Ares?
The geographical landscape of Greece is:
a. flat
b. mountainous
What is mountainous?
The other ancient civilization who has gods and goddesses that are the same but with different names.
What is Rome?
A government by the people
What is democracy?
One advantage offered by Greece's geography?
What is: "a barrier for invaders?"
This goddess was the mother of Cupid.
Who was Aphrodite?
This area was the marketplace in Ancient Greece.
What is the agora?
This god drove the Sun Chariot.
Who was Apollo?
What is a traditional story which explains the practices or beliefs of a people or something in the natural world?
What is a myth?
A disadvantage due to the geography of Greece.
What is "physically isolated communities?"
This god ruled the underworld.
Who was Hades?
This type of land forms make up Greece.
What are islands?
This goddess was Zeus's wife.
Who was Hera?
A story meant to teach a lesson.
What is a fable?
Athens was the birthplace of this idea...
What is "democracy?"
This goddess is in charge of the hunt, forests, and archery.
Who was Artemis?
This is a city-state in Ancient Greece.
What is a Polis?
This goddess is in charge of farming/agriculture.
Who was Demeter?
An enslaved person in Ancient Sparta
What is a Helot?
This subculture was famous for its warriors, raised to fight from a young age.
What is "Sparta?"
This god was the father of Hercules.
Who was Zeus?
This is where the gods and goddesses lived.
This god made Zeus's lightning bolts.
Who was Hephaestus?