vocabulary
A body of land with water on three sides
What is a peninsula?
Ancient Greece was the first civilization to develop on this continent
What is Europe?
The belief in many gods
What is polytheism?
The Ancient Greeks started this sporting event.
What is the Olympic games?
A long poem that records the deeds of a legendary or real hero
What is an epic?
A Greek city-state
What is a polis?
Greece is made up of two of these
What are peninsulas?
These were built and dedicated to a god or goddess.
What is a temple?
Greece was the first civilization to develop where?
What is Europe?
A short tale that teaches a lesson
What is a fable?
A person who searches for wisdom or enlightenment
What is a philosopher?
Greece began in an area dominated by what?
What are mountains and seas?
The Greeks believed that the 12 most important gods and goddesses lived here
What is Mount Olympus?
The people of Ancient Greece were known for this, which includes epics, fables, and myths
What is literature?
Most of the great thinkers in Greece were a part of the _________ Age
What is the Golden Age?
A government in which a small group has control
What is an oligarchy?
Greece has very little land for this.
What is farming?
All city-states worshipped this god
They performed plays and made many contributions to this
What is theater?
The moral of the "Tortoise and the Hare"
What is slow and steady wins the race?
A gathering place; marketplace in Ancient Greece
What is an agora?
Name the two common Greek occupations
What is fishing and trading?
Athena is the goddess of what city-state?
What is Athens?
Name one of the three great Greek philosophers we learned about
Who is Socrates, Aristotle or Plato?
The Ancient Greeks created and performed the first of these
What are dramas?