Show:
The Rise of Greek Civilization
Religion, Philosophy, and the Arts
Random
Our Notes
Vocabulary
100
Mountains
What are major landforms in ancient Greece?
100
He is the god of war.
What is Ares the god of?
100
Zeus
Who is a son of Cronus and the king of the gods?
100
The Mycenaens
Who conquered the Minoans
100
A long poem that tells a story.
What is an epic?
200
The trick was the Trojan War.
According to myths, what trick did the Greeks use to conquer Troy?
200
The Twelve Olympians.
Who did the Greeks worship?
200
They make fun of well known citizens and politicians.
Poets made comedies to make fun of who?
200
Farmers, or nomads.
What two things do historians believe how the the Greeks originated?
200
A high, rocky hill where early people built cities.
What is an acropolis?
300
Civilization collapsed, poverty was everywhere, everyone had to depend on what they could raise themselves, and people forgot the art of writing.
What happened in the Dark Ages of Greece?
300
Sacred sites where it was believed the gods spoke.
What is an oracle?
300
Tragedies
Some of the most famous Greek plays were what?
300
Poverty was everywhere, people tried to survive but sometimes failed, and the art of writing was forgotten.
What happened in the Dark Age?
300
A member of a rich and powerful family.
What is an aristocrat?
400
They conquered the Minoans.
Who were the Mycenaens?
400
It was built for Athena.
What was the Parthenon built for?
400
He was an important philosopher that taught in Athens.
Who is Socrates?
400
The Twelve Olympians
Who did the ancient Greeks worship?
400
A ruler who takes power with the support of the middle and working classes.
What is a tyrant?
500
The Iliad, and the Odyssey
What are two epics that tell a story about the Trojan War?
500
The Greeks would go to the oracles and they would ask the gods to give them advise or to reveal the future.
How did the Greeks honor their gods?
500
These people are in the family of Gods.
Who is Zeus, Hera, Apollo, Artemis, Athena, Ares, Aphrodite, Hermes, Poseidon, and Demeter.
500
A trade intermediary between civilized and barbarian worlds.
What is a commerce?
500
A type of serious drama that ends in disaster for the main character.
What is a tragedy?