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Greek geography
the city state
Greek mythology
Greek literature
heroes and homer
100
Greece is located on this continent
What is Europe
100
this greek word means city state
What is polis
100
_________ is another word for a culture that believes in many gods
What is polytheistic
100
this type of poetry is written in Greece about love and relationships
What is lyrical poetry
100
___________ is the most famous Greek hero because he slayed the hydra
Who is hercules
200
the country of Greece is in this type of geological formation
What is a paninsula
200
this is a political unit that consists of a city and surounding countryside
What is a city state
200
this describes a body of stories about gods and heroes that try to explain how the world works
What is mythology
200
these stories were written to teach lessons
What are fables
200
this man wrote the iliad and the odyssey
Who is homer
300
this is a fact about Greece's geography that made farming hard
What are mountians
300
this is the name of the fortress Greeks chose to build their city states around
What is acropolis
300
if you were looking at a picture of a god with a hammer,apron,and a volcano in the background you would be looking at a god that goes by this name
Who is Hephaestus
300
_________ was a man best known in ancient Greece for his fables
Who is Aesop
300
this book describes the adventures of the fictional character odysseus
What is the odyssey
400
these are two cultures in Greece that fell due to natural disasters
What were the Minoans and the Mycenaeans
400
this is a marketplace in which trade occurred,religious ceremonies, and political meetings took place
What is an agora
400
why would Hephaestus be pictured with a volcano in the background?
Hephaestus is said to cause volcanic eruptions whenever he makes weapons for the gods
400
the main characters in fables are usually ___________
What is animals
400
TRUE OR FALSE: homer's epic poems tell the stories of gods and heroes
true
500
in this way Greeks survived without farming
What is trading
500
we under stand that greeks loved their city state. how do we know this?
they took it upon themselves to participate in government
500
this is said to cause season changes in Greece
What is Demeter's sadness
500
the _____ is a instrument played by poets while they recite their lyrical poems
What is the lyre
500
homer was said to have this disability
What is blindness