A word used to describe the texture of the land in Greece.
What is rugged?
100
I was a great philosopher who believed in balance and whose studies in science are still used today. Who am I?
Who is Aristotle?
100
The name of the religious festival, or sacred
celebration, that people from all directions traveled to see
and compete in.
What is the Olympic Games?
200
Very large, heavy, and solid.
What is Massive?
200
The messenger of the gods and son of Zeus,
Who is Hermes?
200
The name of the cities in each valley of Greece that became its own little nation, with its own government and its own laws.
What is a city-state?
200
I was a great philosopher who lived very simply and always
asked questions. Who am I?
Who is Socrates?
200
The god that the Olympic games were held in honor of.
Who is Zeus?
300
To be called forth or requested to come.
What is to be summoned?
300
The god of the seas and of all that crosses the seas.
Who is Poseidon?
300
The 3 bodies of water that surround Greece.
What is the Black Sea, Aegean Sea, and Mediterranian Sea? (BAM)
300
I was a great philosopher who opened a school called “The
Academy.” Who am I?
Who is Plato?
300
The only group of individuals/people allowed to participate in the Olympic Games.
Who are the men?
400
A special job or task.
What is a mission?
400
The godess of hunting, wilderness, and animals.
Who is Artemis?
400
Greeks believed that the most powerful of these gods and
goddesses lived in a palace on the very top of what mountain?
What is Mount Olympus?
400
Someone who seeks to understand and explain people
and the world they live in.
Who is a philosopher?
400
3 competitions that took place during the early Olympic Games.
What are footraces, or running races, wrestling, boxing, racing horses and chariots, throwing the heavy stone discus, and throwing the javelin, a type of long
spear.
500
Taking over something or someone; a win
What is a conquest?
500
The God of war.
Who is Ares?
500
I am the location of a battle during which Pheidippides was
ordered to run as fast as he could to get help from the people of Sparta and then again twenty-six miles to announce victory in
Athens. Where am I?
What is Marathon?
500
The city-state that many of the great thinkers lived.
What is Athens?
500
Two wealthy men traveling to the Olympic Games in a carriage; (Hint: one was a sculptor, and one was a poet.)