This blind poet is considered to be the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
100
The high part of a Greek city-state was used as a fortress and religious center. Its name comes from two Greek words for high and city.
What is an acropolis?
100
This huge empire tried to conquer Greece in the fifth century B.C.
What is the Persian Empire?
100
In ancient Athens and in the United States, this system is used to determine if a person is innocent or guilty of a crime.
What is trial by jury?
200
This type of land form describes Greece because it is bordered on 3 sides by water.
What is a peninsula?
200
This famous Macedonian king united the Greeks and spread Greek culture to Asia and Africa. He also named over 70 cities after himself.
Who is Alexander the Great?
200
It is the Greek word for city-state.
What is a polis?
200
This was the only battle that the Greeks lost in the Persian Wars.
What is Thermopylae?
200
A law making body or group in Athens or in our government is called this.
What is an assembly?
300
This large peninsula is in the southern part of Greece.
What is the Peloponnesus?
300
This famous philosopher was sentenced to death for asking too many questions.
Who is Socrates?
300
This word comes from two Greek words for people and rule. It is the type of government where the people rule themselves.
What is a democracy?
300
This important battle was fought 26 miles from Athens.
What is Marathon?
300
This is the name of the best example of Greek temple building. It influenced how we make public buildings.
What is the Parthenon?
400
Greece is located on this very large peninsula.
What is the Balkan Peninsula?
400
Because he taught that illness has natural causes, this man is called the Father of Medicine.
Who is Hippocrates?
400
This word comes from two Greek words for love and wisdom.
What is philosophy?
400
It was the only naval or sea battle in the Persian Wars.
What is Salamis?
400
The Greeks had sad plays which inspired writers like Shakespeare to write plays like "Romeo and Juliet" or "Hamlet."
What are tragedies?
500
This narrow neck of land connects the Peloponnesian Peninsula to the rest of Greece.
What is the Isthmus of Corinth?
500
He is known as the Father of History because he wrote a book about the Persian Wars.
Who is Herodotus?
500
William Penn decided to give this important American city this name which means the "city of brotherly love" in Greek. Both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were written here.
What is Philadelphia?
500
This alliance of city-states won the Peloponnesian War
What was the Spartan League or Peloponnesian League ?
500
This is the type of government which we have borrowed from ancient Athens.