Government
Who got to vote in ancient Greece?
What is free men?
What was Sparta known for?
What is a strong military?
A fortified hilltop at the center of a Greek city-state.
What is an acropolis?
What was the landscape in Greece like?
What is rocky with mountains?
Athletic contests held every four years to honor their gods.
What are the Olympics?
The form of government in which the power is in the hands of all the people.
What is democracy?
a poet whose works were part of the culture shared by all of Greece
Who was Homer?
The Greek name for a city.
What is polis?
Who was the enemy of Athens in the Peloponnesian War?
Who is Sparta?
The study of wisdom or knowledge.
What is philosophy?
There form of government in which the power is in the hands of one king
What is monarchy?
a philosopher who questioned Athenian laws, customs, and religion
Who was Socrates?
Where do ships find a sheltered place along a coast?
What is a harbor?
What is an peninsula?
What is a piece of land almost surrounded by water? (3/4 sides)
When was the first modern Olympiad held?
What is 1896?
What type of government was Athens known for?
What is direct democracy?
an Athenian leader who worked to allow poor citizens to take part in government
Who was Periclues?
What is the name for a group of people who lived apart from Greece but kept economic ties with it?
What is a colony?
Alexander the Great was from?
What is Macedonia?
Name two great Athenian philosophers.
Who are Socrates, Plato and/or Aristotle?
There form of government in which the power is in the hands of a few people.
What is an oligarchy?
an historian who wrote about ancient Greece and its culture
Who was Herodotus?
Part of the Athenian government that held the most power.
What is the Assembly?
Name at least 2 seas that surround Greece.
What is the Aegean, Mediterranean, and/or Ionian?
Who was Alexander the Great's teacher?
Who is Aristotle?