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100
What is a person who believes in one god called?
What is monotheistic?
100
How did most Greek women get their clothing?
What is by making their own clothing. They wove the fabric using a loom and Because nature smiled upon them, the Greeks spent then sewed clothing for themselves and their families.
100
What two seas surround Greece?
What is the Aegean and Ionian sea.
100
_ out of _ words is Greek in origin.
What is 1 out of 8.
100
Name the 5 Polies.
What is Argos, Athens, Corinth, Megara and Sparta.
200
What article of clothing did both women and men wear?
What is chiton.
200
What other ancient civilization did Greece trade with?
What is Egypt.
200
What did ancient Greeks call themselves?
What is Hellenes.
200
In which Polis did democracy flourish and sculptors, mathematicians, philosophers, playwrights lived in freedom?
What is Athens.
300
According to Mythology, where did the 12 major Gods live?
What is Mount Olympus?
300
What did some women wear to show they were part of a higher social group?
What is elaborate jewelry.
300
What about Greece's location contributed to its culture and prosperity?
What is the sea allowed for trade.
300
Which Polis had a thriving textile industry, colonized all over the eastern Mediterranean and founded the great city of Byzantium?
What is Megara?
300
Which Polis had a military tradition and believed in harsh education?
What is Sparta.
400
Who was the king of all Gods?
Who is Zeus.
400
What did Greek men wear when they went to war?
What is breastplates of leather and metal plates sewn on cloth.
400
Name two reasons why the Greeks had trouble with farming
What is the soil was not rich and land was mountainous.
400
What were the three functions of the Acropolis?
What is it was a defensive position when the city was under attack and a place to discuss affairs of state. It also served as a shrine to honor and worship Greece’s many gods and goddesses.
400
Which Polis had a near-perfect location that enable them to be a great seaport?
What is Corinth.
500
Describe at least three major differences between an American religion and those of the ancient Greeks.
What is polytheism vs. monotheism, worshipping inside the church vs. worshipping outside the temple, asking for and believing in prophecies, seeing their gods and goddesses as having human personalities and weaknesses, believing the gods and goddess came down from Mt. Olympus to interact with humans, and/or having no separation between religion and ancient Greek government.
500
What was the primary difference between the Greek's summer clothes and winter clothes?
What is during winter, wool was used. During the summer, linen or muslin.
500
Name the three main exports of Greece.
What is olive oil, grains, and grapes (wine).
500
What did Areté mean for the people of Ancient Greece?
What is personal excellence.
500
Which Polis was not blessed geographically, but overcame their poor farming conditions learned to irrigate their fields with wells?
What was Argos?