Geography & City-States
This landform made it hard for Greece to unite under one government.
What are mountains?
This city-state valued education, art, and democracy.
What is Athens?
This philosopher taught by asking questions to make people think.
Who is Socrates?
These games honored Zeus and celebrated human strength.
What are the Olympic Games?
This temple in Athens was built to honor Athena.
What is the Parthenon?
Because of poor farmland, Greeks became skilled at this.
What is sailing or trading by sea?
This city-state focused on military training and discipline.
What is Sparta?
This word means “love of wisdom.”
What is philosophy?
He was the king of the gods
Who is Zeus?
This poet wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
Each independent Greek city was called this.
What is a polis?
Women had more freedom here than in any other Greek city-state.
What is Sparta?
This philosopher studied logic and science and tutored Alexander the Great.
Who is Aristotle?
She was the goddess of wisdom and war strategy.
Who is Athena?
Modern buildings like the U.S. Capitol and Supreme Court use this Greek architectural feature.
What are columns and arches?
These two city-states became the most powerful rivals in Greece.
What are Athens and Sparta?
Only men born here could vote
What is Athens
This student of Socrates founded The Academy and wrote The Republic.
Who is Plato?
Greek myths often warned against this emotion that leads to punishment from the gods.
What is pride or hubris?
This mathematician discovered a theorem about right triangles.
Who is Pythagoras?
This sea surrounded much of Greece and connected it to other cultures.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
This long war weakened Greece after Athens and Sparta fought for power.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
This person is considered to be the "father of medicine"
Who is Hippocrates?
This titan was punished for giving humans fire.
Who is Prometheus?
Alpha, Psi, Theta, ect.