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100
Greece is made up of this type of landmass.
What is a peninsula?
100
This English word comes from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha and beta.
What is alphabet?
100
This type of government began in Athens and means “rule by the people”.
What is Democracy?
100
Ancient Greeks were pioneers in this field of scientific study of outer space.
What is astronomy?
100
Greeks used this architectural device to make their temples look balanced and stately.
What are columns?
200
This geographic feature made early settlers want to live in Greece.
What are harbors?
200
The Greeks created these two forms of drama:
What are tragedy and comedy?
200
In Sparta, this was banned to keep citizens from learning new ideas.
What is traveling outside the city-state of Sparta?
200
For centuries, who or what did the Greeks believe controlled natural events, including health and sickness.
Who are gods and goddesses?
200
This word comes from a Greek word that means “a viewing place.”
What is theater?
300
This made Greek city-states so isolated (separated from one another).
What are mountains?
300
Greece was divided into 300 polis, or ________.
What are city-states?
300
This group of citizens was allowed to vote in Athens.
What is every male citizen?
300
This famous Greek is often called the “father of medicine.”
Who was Hippocrates?
300
So that everyone in the audience could see and hear, Greeks built their theaters in this shape.
What is a semi-circle?
400
This English word comes from Greek words meaning “writing about the earth.”
What is geography?
400
This city-state became the center for Greek culture.
What is Athens?
400
This city-state required all males had to join the army at age 7.
What is Sparta?
400
His geometry textbook has been used as the basis for the teaching of geometry for more than 2,000 years.
Who was Euclid?
400
This famous modern sporting event traces its roots back to ancient Greece.
What are the Olympic Games?
500
This Greek scientist designed a system of lines drawn on a map called latitude and longitude.
Who was Ptolemy?
500
This city-state was a strictly controlled military state.
What is Sparta?
500
This is an important difference between democracy in Athens and democracy in America.
What is in Athens, every citizen debated and voted on every issue; in America we elect representatives to make laws and speak to some issues.
500
Greek thinkers believed each event has a cause and an effect; they used this idea to create the science of studying the natural world.
What is biology?
500
This custom comes from the time in ancient Greece when the first Olympic athletes lit a fire on the altar of Zeus.
What is an athlete lights the Olympic flame?