Geo/Early Greeks
This island was home to the Minoan civilization and the palace of Knossos.
What is Crete?
This princess gave Theseus a ball of thread to help him escape the Labyrinth.
Who is Ariadne?
This blind poet composed the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
This is rule by the people.
What is democracy?
Spartan boys began military training at this age.
What is 7?
This Minoan writing system CANNOT be translated by modern scholars.
This Mycenaean writing system can be translated.
What is Linear A?
What is Linear B?
Theseus was supposed to raise these colored sails if he survived, but he forgot—causing his father to kill himself.
What are white sails?
The Trojan War lasted this many years.
What are 10 years?
This Athenian lawmaker was so harsh that almost every sentence for a crime was death.
Who is Draco?
Spartan mothers gave their sons this item along with the phrase "Come back with it or on it."
What is a shield?
This sea is located EAST of Greece, between Greece and Asia Minor.
What is the Aegean Sea?
Who is Aegeus?
This Greek hero came up with the plan to build the Trojan Horse.
Who is Odysseus?
This reformer divided Athenian society by INCOME instead of birth, which was the first step toward democracy.
Who is Solon?
This is the name for the brutal Spartan military training program.
What is Agoge?
The Mycenaeans conquered the Minoans around this year.
What is 1500 BCE?
This inventor built the Labyrinth for King Minos and later escaped Crete using wings made of feathers and wax.
Who is Daedalus?
This goddess was upset she was not invited and ruined a wedding with a golden apple labeled "For the Fairest".
Who is Eris?
This is the name for the high point of a Greek city, often containing temples.
What is the Acropolis?
Who are the five watchers who can put even a king on trial?
Who are the Euphors?
Greece developed into separate city-states instead of one unified country because of these.
What are mountains?
The word "Minotaur" comes from combining these two words..
The King of Sparta and husband of Helen.
The King of Mycenae and leader of the Greek navy.
Who is Menelaus?
Who is Agamemnon?
This man created Athenian democracy in 510 BCE by giving ALL citizens the right to vote, regardless of wealth.
Who is Cleisthenes?
These were the three Spartan virtues that all citizens were expected to follow.
What are Equality, Fitness, and Austerity?