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Early Greeks
Athens Vs Sparta
Grab Bag
Alexander the Great
Contributions
100
Athletic contests held every four years to honor their gods.
What are the Olympics?
100
Athens created this form of government in which the power is in the hands of the people.
What is a democracy?
100
This geographic feature created small isolated city-states in Greece as opposed to a unified country.
What are mountains?
100
The name of a city in Egypt, founded by Alexander.
What is Alexandria?
100
We get this English word from the first two Greek letters Alpha and Beta.
What is Alphabet?
200
Human emotions and characteristics such as Jealousy, Anger, Revenge were displayed buy these mythical beings, who lived on Mt Olympus.
Who are Greek gods?
200
This military city-state allowed women much more freedom, they could own land, and even run businesses.
What is Sparta?
200
The most famous Greek philosopher who founded a question/answer approach to learning.
Who was Socrates?
200
The term used to describe the way Alexander spread Greek culture around the known world.
What is Hellenism?
200
The study of wisdom.
What is philosophy?
300
The first two cultures in ancient Greece. One on the island of Crete and the other on mainland Greece.
Who are the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures?
300
This lifestyle perk allowed the people of Athens to make great advances in many fields like astronomy, philosophy, mathematics.
What is free time?
300
Greeks first suggested that these could help merchant sailors accurately locate their place on our round planet.
What are the Stars? or What are Latitude and Longitude?
300
Alexander assumed the throne after his fathers death at the age of 20. He then invaded and conquered most of this empire.
What is the Persian Empire?
300
Greek invention which included comedies and tragedies.
What is drama?
400
These people could vote because they were born in their city state, were over 18, had military training.
Who are Male citizens of Athens?
400
Pericles built this temple for Athena, built on the acropolis.
What is the Parthenon?
400
A phase of Greek history that saw many advances in math, medicine, art, architecture, philosophy, and government.
What is the "Golden Age" of Greece?
400
This war weakened many Greek city-states allowing Alexanders father Phillip II to conquer most of mainland Greece.
What was the Peloponnesian War?
400
Common Greek architectural feature still used today in many banks and government buildings.
What are Greek columns?
500
Surprisingly this people group was treated poorly and had very few rights outside the home in ancient Athens .
Who are women of Athens?
500
Athens relied heavily on this, where as Sparta used slaves and farmland to produce food for their city-state.
What is trade?
500
Governments in ancient Greece often started as Monarchies then progressed though these next three stages.
What are Oligarchy, Tyranny, and Democracy?
500
Alexander built each new city with these four features just like the Greek cities of his homeland.
What are a marketplace, university, gymnasium, and theater.
500
Most well known Greek mathematical contribution.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?