Vocabulary
An area of land surrounded by water on 3 sides.
What is a peninsula?
A cultural impact from ancient Greece in which athletes compete in a multitude of events(foot race, javelin throw, discus throw, long jump, and wrestling).
What are the Olympic Games?
A large body of water surrounding ancient Greece.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
A form of government in which authority over the people is retained through a ruling family.
What is a monarchy?
A government in which power is held by a small group of people.
What is oligarchy?
To supply water to crops through artificial means.
What is irrigate?
An architectural impact from ancient Greece seen on many buildings today.
What are columns?
Region of southwestern Asia.
What is Asia Minor?
A government run by religious leaders and religious laws.
What is theocracy?
The problem that the ancient Greek communities tried to solve by starting colonies.
What is a shortage of farmland?
A settlement controlled by a separate country.
What is a colony?
A form of government in which the people rule, either directly or through elected representatives.
What is democracy?
Northern region of ancient Greece.
What is Macedonia?
The name of the military formation used by ancient Greeks.
What is a phalanx?
The type of column that is fanciest.
What is Corinthian?
A self-governing region (called a state), consisting of a city and surrounding territory.
What is a city-state?
An educational impact from ancient Greece still used today (2 answers can be accepted).
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
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What is the world map?
Connected to mainland by an isthmus.
What is the Peloponnesian Peninsula?
The difference between ancient Greek democracy and democracy in the United States today.
What is citizens voted directly on all issues?
A city-state in ancient Greece (and Greece’s capital today).
What is Athens, Greece?
A citadel or fortified part of an ancient Greek city, typically built on a hill; it means “high city” in Greek.
What is an acropolis?
The influence from ancient Greece visible on the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
What are columns?
Greek mountains had this affect on communication.
What is isolated communities?
An aspect of government in which a group of citizens decides if you are guilty or not.
What is a jury?
The Greek goddess of wisdom.
Who is Athena?