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Greek Geography
Odds and Ends
Potpouri
Greek Gods
Contributions
100
The continent on which Greece is located.
What is Europe?
100
Name two goods that Greece traded with other peoples.
What are olives, olive oil, wool, or wine?
100
The number of gods who lived on Mount Olympus.
What is 12?
100
Ancient Greeks used to contact these priests or priestesses to get answers.
Who are oracles?
100
This person wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey
Who is Homer?
200
70 or more percent of Greece's land is this.
What are mountains?
200
Known as the Father of Medicine
Who is Hippocrates?
200
He was accused of corrupting the youth and sentenced to death by poison.
Who is Socrates?
200
Where the gods and goddesses lived?
Where is Mt. Olympus?
200
Type of government in Athens.
What is democracy?
300
An important port in Ancient Greece and still a city today on the Mediterranean Sea.
What is Alexandria?
300
One of the Gorgon's with snake coiled hair
Who is Medusa?
300
Socrates most famous student, and believed in rule bu philosopher kings.
Who is Plato?
300
The god of the underworld?
Who is Hades?
300
A story from long ago that explains an event in nature or an heroic deed.
What is a myth?
400
Name two of the seas which border the region where Ancient Greece was located?
What are the Aegean and Mediterranean Seas?
400
A play with an unhappy ending
What is a tradegy?
400
One of the first tow Greek historians.
Who is Herodotus?
400
The goddess of wisdom?
Who is Athena?
400
His fables were part of Greek oral tradition.
Who is Aesop?
500
A fortified hilltop at the center of a Greek city-state.
What is an acropolis?
500
The name of the war fought between Athens and Sparta.
What was the Peloponnesian War?
500
Another name for a Greek city-state.
What is a polis?
500
The river which runs through the underworld.
What is the River Styx?
500
He specialized in making weapons such as the catapult.
Who is Archimedes?