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Oddyssey...
Alexander the Great?
100
The name for the peninsula where Greece is located.
What is The Balkan Peninsula?
100
The way that decisions were made in the ancient Athenian democracy.
What is majority rule?
100
The civilization that the Myceneans borrowed ideas about art, writing, and religion from.
Who are the Minoans?
100
The goddess born out of Zeus' head.
Who is Athena?
100
The reason Alexander's Empire broke up after his death.
Alexander failed to name a legitimate heir.
200
The reason travel by sea was easier for the ancient Greeks.
What are the mountains?
200
A leader who comes to power by illegal means.
What is a tyrant?
200
Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle.
Who are ancient Greek philosophers?
200
Hades Dog.
Who is Cerberus?
200
The way that Alexander built his empire.
What is conquest?
300
The two main crops and trade items in ancient Greece.
What are grapes and olives?
300
A government ruled by a few wealthy people and some middle class. Sparta used one.
What is an Oligarchy?
300
The kinds of people who worked in Athens during the Golden Age.
Who are artists, scientists, builders?
300
Zeus' father.
Who is Cronus?
300
The name for many cities that Alexander built.
What is Alexandria?
400
How did the sea influence the ancient Greek civilization? (at least one reason)
Sea travel was easier than land travel, Connected Greeks to outsiders, and many Greeks became fishers and traders.
400
Rule by the people.
What is a democracy?
400
The reason the ancient Greeks established colonies outside of the Balkan Peninsula.
To find new resources and to seek trade relationships.
400
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What is SPARTA!!
400
The name of the king that Alexander defeated in his last battle.
Who is Porrus?
500
The name of the sea that separates the Balkan Peninsula and Asia Minor.
What is the Aegean Sea?
500
The group of people who made the governmental decisions in ancient Athens.
Who are the assembly?
500
The ancient Greek architectural feature that is still popular around the world today.
What are columns?
500
The Greek word for victory.
What is NIKE?
500
Was Alexander NOT GREAT? (List at least two reasons)
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