Climate and Geography
The Climate of Greece.
What is Moderate?
This City state tried to have a democratic government.
What is Athens?
The blind man credited with writing epic poems such as The Illiad and The Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
This woman is believed to have started the Trojan War.
Who is Helen?
The Greek God's Parents.
Who are the Titans?
The Land of Greece is described as.
What is Mountainous?
Greek word for fortified hilltop.
What is acropolis?
First in a line of philosphers, he was put to death for "corrupting the youth"
Who is Socrates?
The War between Athens and Sparta.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
Form of government where citizens rule directly and not through representatives.
What is direct democracy?
Important Transportation routes for the Greeks.
What is The Agean Sea, The Inonian Sea, and The Black Sea?
A government formed by a few powerful people.
What is an Oligarchy?
This philosopher taught Alexander the Great.
Who is Aristotle?
This City-State sent its 7 year old boys to military training.
What is Sparta?
The Greeks wrote two kinds of drama.
What is tragedy and comedy.
Sea travel and trade were important to Greeks because?
What is lack of natural resources and usable farmland?
Pericles' three goals for Athens.
What is Stronger democracy, Hold and strengthen the empire, and glorify Athens?
The name of the messenger who ran from Marathon to Athens.
Who is Pheidippides?
The result of the Persian Wars.
What is the Delian League?
Temple built to honor Athena, goddess of wisdom and protector of Athens.
What is the Parthenon?
Ancient Greece consisted mainly of.
What is mountainous pennisula jutting out into the Mediteranean sea.
How did Perciles' achieves his goals for Athens.
Increase in number of public officials who were paid salaries.
Used Delian League money to strengthen navy.
Bought gold,ivory marble, and payed artists and architects to create magnificent sculptures and buildings.
This philospher questioned the nature of the world and of human belief, thought, and knowledge.
Who is Aristotle?
The four major battles of the Persian Wars in order.
What is Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea?
The victor of the Peloponnesian War.
What is Sparta?