Geography
Greece is surrounded by water on three sides. What is the geographical term for this type of landform?
What is a peninsula?
This athletic festival was held every four years to honor the king of the gods, Zeus.
What are the Olympic Games?
He is the legendary blind poet who wrote the epic masterpieces The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
Ancient Athens is famous for inventing this brand-new political system where the power belongs to the citizens.
What is democracy? (Bonus points for direct democracy)
This series of conflicts began because King Darius wanted to punish Athens for helping rebellious Ionian Greeks.
What are the Persian Wars?
Because Greece is covered by these physical features, Greek city-states developed isolated, independent communities rather than one unified empire.
What are mountains?
In this military-focused city-state, women had more rights, could own property, and received physical training.
What is Sparta?
The ancient Greeks invented Western theater, which featured these two specific types of plays.
What are comedies and tragedies?
This Greek leader is remembered for reforming the political system and establishing the world's very first democracy.
Who is Cleisthenes?
King Leonidas and 300 brave Spartan warriors fought to the death at this narrow mountain pass to delay the massive Persian army.
What is the Battle of Thermopylae?
Due to mountainous terrain, the ancient Greeks relied on these bodies of water for travel, food, and vital trade.
What are seas? (Accept: Aegean, Mediterranean, or Ionian Seas)
In this city-state, women were expected to stay at home, manage households, and had almost no political rights.
What is Athens?
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are world-famous examples of these—a word that means "lovers of wisdom."
What are philosophers?
In Athens, this large group of citizens met regularly to vote directly on laws, declare wars, and make major political decisions.
What is the Assembly?
This destructive 27-year civil war broke out because Sparta and other city-states grew terrified of Athens' growing power and greed.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
Because mountain travel was so hazardous, this specific type of water-based transportation became the primary way Greeks interacted with the outside world.
What is shipping/sailing?
Ancient Greeks were polytheistic. This is the collective name given to the primary gods who ruled from the highest mountain in Greece.
Who are the Twelve Olympians? (Accept: The Greek Gods)
He is known as the "Father of Medicine," and modern doctors still take an oath named after him today.
Who is Hippocrates?
This brilliant statesman led Athens during its "Golden Age," championing democracy and ordering the construction of the Parthenon.
Who is Pericles?
This was the name of the anti-Persian alliance led by Athens, which eventually turned into an Athenian empire.
What is the Delian League?
This sea sits directly to the east of mainland Greece, separating it from Asia Minor.
What is the Aegean Sea?
This is the specific term used for the state-owned slaves in Sparta who legally outnumbered the actual Spartan citizens.
What are helots?
Writers like Herodotus and Thucydides pioneered this field of study by systematically recording and analyzing past events.
What is history? (Accept: Famous historians)
To participate in the Athenian Assembly or vote, you had to hold this status, which was restricted only to free, adult, native-born men.
What is citizenship?
This was the geographical result of the Peloponnesian War, leaving the weakened Greek city-states vulnerable to outside invasion.
What is the collapse/weakening of Greece? (Accept: It left them open to conquest by Macedonia)