This is an island in the middle of the Aegean Sea where the Minoan civilization was.
What is Crete?
100
In this kind of government all citizens participate. They can vote or hold office.
What is Democracy?
100
These were the first kings of Greece.
Who were the Mycenaeans?
100
This man was leader of Athens for almost 40 years.
Who was Pericles?
100
This was a contribution made during the era of the Minoans.
What is the Minotaur? What was bull-leaping?
200
This is a time when a civilization has fallen. It has no government, no trade or economy, and life for most people is difficult and dangerous.
What is a Dark Age?
200
This is a person who takes control of the government and rules with total authority.
What is a Tyrant?
200
During this age, the Greeks developed a new alphabet based on what they learned from the Phoenecians.
What is the Dark Age?
200
This war was the subject of Homer's great epic, the Iliad.
What is the Trojan War?
200
This is one major contribution from the era of the Persian War.
What is a Marathon?
300
This is the Greek word for "city-state."
What is a Polis?
300
This is a short story to teach a lesson. The characters are often animals.
What is a Fable?
300
During this era, Greeks spread out and settled on the coasts of the Black and Mediterranean seas. They developed industry and traded with their parent cities.
What is Colonization?
300
These wars started because the Athenians tried to help the Greeks of Asia Minor rebel against the Persians.
What were the Persian Wars?
300
This is the name of the modern French port city that began as the Greek colony of Massalia.
What is Marseilles?
400
Every Greek city state had one of these. It was both a marketplace and a place to meet others and do business. It was also just a place to hang out and meet your friends.
What is an Agora?
400
This is a really long story or poem.
What is an epic?
400
These were 3 contributions made during the Golden Age of Athens.
What were sculpture, architecture, drama, philosophy, democracy, and history?
400
The Athenian empire began when Pericles used THIS to control the Aegean Sea.
What is the Athenian Navy?
400
This Greek thinker wrote a book, called The principles of Geometry.
Who was Euclid?
500
This is a kind of government run by a small group of people.
What is Oligarchy?
500
This person's job is to ask and answer the deepest questions about life, including things like, "Why are we here?", "What does it mean to be human?", and "What is beauty?"
What is a Philosopher?
500
During this era, an important contribution to democracy was made: Allowing lower classes to work in the government.
What is Tyranny? or What is the Age of Pericles?
500
This event ended Greece's Dark Age.
What is the Dorian Invasion?
500
This Greek Thinker was the first to explain history as a story of real events instead of myths and legends.