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100
Athletic contests held every four years to honor their gods.
What are the Olympics?
100
There form of government in which the power is in the hands of the people.
What is a democracy?
100
The country of Greece itself is one of these landforms.
What is a peninsula?
100
This blind poet wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
100
This type of poetry is set to music.
What is lyric poetry?
200
The ruler of the gods.
Who is Zeus?
200
What were the cultural interests of Athens?
What is learning and the arts?
200
Because Greece has so many of these landforms, travel was very difficult.
What are mountains?
200
She was a famous lyric poet.
Who is Sappho?
200
This kind of poetry is long, and usually tells of heroes' exploits.
What is epic poetry?
300
Home of the Greek gods.
What is Mount Olympus?
300
Who were the three great Athenian philosophers?
Who are Socrates, Plato and Aristotle?
300
Each of these, like Athens and Sparta, was almost like a separate country.
What is a city-state?
300
This man is known as "the father of democracy."
Who is Cleisthenes?
300
These were the Greeks' favorite form of drama.
What are tragedies?
400
Greek goddess of wisdom.
Who is Athena?
400
The Athenian temple for Athena.
What is the Parthenon?
400
This island lies to the south of Greece.
What is Crete?
400
This man became famous for building the Parthenon and making Athens a beautiful and noteworthy city.
Who is Pericles?
400
A long, carved piece of marble that decorated the top of a temple.
What is a frieze?
500
A fortified hilltop at the center of a Greek city-state.
What is an acropolis?
500
Part of the Athenian government that held the most power.
What is the Assembly?
500
This sea lies to the east of Greece and west of Asia Minor, where Troy was located.
What is the Aegean Sea?
500
This man was known for his incredibly harsh laws.
Who is Draco?
500
This phrase refers to a person's weakness, and takes its name from one of the great warriors of the Trojan War.
What is an Achilles heel?