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Greek Geography
Greek Religion
The Greek Polis
Wars
Golden Age and Macedonian Empire
100
This large peninsula is surrounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Agean Sea to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south.
What is Asia Minor, or Anatolia?
100
This is the type of religion observed by the Ancient Greeks.
What is polytheism?
100
This Greek polis built a military state.
What is Sparta?
100
Athens and Sparta were allies in this war.
What is the Persian War?
100
This Athenian led Athens during its golden age.
Who is Pericles?
200
This narrow strait connected the Agean Sea with the Black Sea.
What is Dardanelles?
200
This Greek deity was associated with the sun, poetry and music.
Who is Apollo?
200
At this age Spartan boys moved into military barraks to begin their military training.
What is 7 years old?
200
The Greeks won a great naval victory over the Persians at this battle.
What is Salamis?
200
This Macedonian king conquered most of Greece.
Who is Phillip II?
300
These features in the Greek terrain both helped and hindered the development of city states in Greece.
What are mountains?
300
This is where the Greeks believed the gods lived.
What is Mount Olympus?
300
This polis was a political, commercial and cultural center of Greece.
What is Athens?
300
Athens and its allies fought against Sparta and its allies in this war.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
300
This Greek doctor believed diseases came from natural causes.
Who is Hippocrates?
400
Sparta was located on this Greek peninsula.
What is the Peloponnesus?
400
This Greek deity was the goddess of the hunt.
Who is Artemis?
400
This tyrant statemen and poet cancelled debts of the poor in Athens.
Who is Solon?
400
This Greek historian was called the father of history and he attempted to write an accurate account of the Persian War.
Who is Herodotus?
400
This Greek dramatist's most famous play was Oedipus Rex, and he also wrote Antigone.
Who is Sophocles?
500
In order to deal with the problem of overpopulation and limited arable land Greeks city-states engaged in this.
What is colonization?
500
This is the goddess of marriage and childbirth.
Who is Hera?
500
This is the type of democracy that developed in Athens.
What is direct democracy?
500
This Spartan king and 300 of his best soldiers bravely defended a mountain pass during the Persian invasion of Greece.
Who is Leonidas?
500
This greek philosopher was the teacher of Alexander the Great.
Who is Aristotle?