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Geography
Early Greek Civilizations
Athens or Sparta
Alexander the Great
Greek Achievements
100
A peninsula
What is a piece of land surrounded by water on 3 sides?
100
The civilization found on the island of Crete.
Who were the Minoans?
100
The birthplace of democracy
What is Athens?
100
The father of Alexander the Great and conqueror of the Greeks.
Who is Philip II?
100
Father of the Socratic Method of teaching.
Who is Socrates?
200
The mountains and rocky terrain made it difficult for the Greeks to find suitable land for this.
What is farming?
200
This civilization was the first to build cities on the mainland of Greece.
Who are the Mycenaean?
200
The war between Athens and Sparta
What is the Peloponnesian War?
200
The name Alexander gave many of his cities.
What is Alexandria?
200
The greatest Greek thinker.
Who is Aristotle?
300
The Greeks became experts at this because Greece is close to so many bodies of water.
What are shipbuilders?
300
Many historians do not classify this civilization as Greek because the people did not speak Greek.
Who were the Minoans?
300
Athens and Sparta joined forces during this war.
What is the Persian War?
300
The blend of cultures resulting from Alexander's conquest of Greece, Egypt, and India.
What is Hellenistic?
300
The basis of Greek life.
What is the city-state?
400
Geographical factors that contributed to the isolation of Greek city-states.
What are the mountains and the seas?
400
These natural disasters are probably the reason the Minoan civilization crumbled.
What is a volcanic eruption and tsunami?
400
Women had more power in this city and often ran the city when men were gone to war.
What is Sparta?
400
The Greek city destroyed by Alexander as an example to others.
What is Thebes?
400
The one factor all Greek people had in common.
What is the same language (Greek)?
500
The 3 bodies of water that surround Greece
What are the Mediterranean, Ionian, and Aegean Seas?
500
This is a time period for which we have no written records. It was a time of war and chaos.
What were the Dark Ages?
500
People were not encouraged to be individuals in this city.
What is Sparta?
500
The age of Alexander the Great when he died.
What is 33 years old?
500
The fields of science that the Greeks contributed to.
What are medicine, mathematics and engineering?