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Dramas
Life in Athens
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An area of land almost completely surrounded by water and connected to the mainland by a narrow strip of land.
What is a peninsula.
100
Were members of rich and powerful families and controlled most of the good land.
What is aristocrats.
100
Athena was the goddess of
What is wisdom.
100
The Olympics were
What is a religious festival honoring Zeus and the gods.
100
Agora is ______
What is center of public life (like a marketplace.)
200
The continent Greece is found on
What is Europe.
200
A Tyrant is
What is a ruler that took power by force.
200
Sacred sites where a god or goddess was consulted
What are oracles
200
During the Olympic Games, it was a time of
What is peace
200
Women could not __________, _________, and ______.
What is women could not vote, run for office, and own property
300
1/5 of Greece was good for growing crops because
What is lack of rain and mountains.
300
Democracy is____________________ and only ______ could be a part of it.
What is a government that let the citizens rule themselves and only men could be a part of politics.
300
Temple to Athena. Found in Athens. Had lifelike carvings on the inside and outside.
What is Parthenon
300
List three ways Ancient Greece's Olympics are different than today's Olympics.
What is only in the summer, honored the gods, only males could watch, and winners got olive crowns. Any others?
300
Slavery was ___ of Athen's population.
What is 1/3.
400
The Minoans and Mycenaeans were similar because
What is they were Ancient Greeks, traders, and knew how to write.
400
Philosophers believed
What is that people could use the powers of the mind and reason to understand the world around them.
400
Breathed life into the first horse.
What is Poseidon.
400
List Aristotle's rules of tragedy.
What is character flaw, ahahah moment, rich to poor, important person, and big mistake.
400
Education was for only ___ and school thought ______ was just as important as reading.
What is boys and physical education.
500
The Dark Ages were dark because
What is poverty everywhere, no one traded outside of Greece, and they forgot how to write.
500
Thales believed ______________. Heraclitus believed ________. Democritus believed ___________. Socrates asked ______________.
What is Thales believed the world was made out of water, Heraclitus believed the world was made out of energy/fire, Democritus believed the world was made out of atoms, and Socrates asked hard questions about what people believed. (What makes a life great?)
500
According to myth, she may have started the Trojan War. How? What is the Trojan War?
What is Aphrodite.
500
List two similarities and two differences between comedies and tragedies.
What is both had a chorus and honored Dionysus. Comedies were funny and ended in wedding. Tragedies ended in disaster or death.
500
What philosopher would have most likely hung out at the Agora.
What is Socrates.