Row 1
An area of land surrounded by three sides of water.
What is a peninsula?
A leader who held power through the use of force.
What is a tyrant?
A body of stories about gods and heroes that try to explain how the world works.
What is mythology?
Much of Greece is covered by what type of landform?
What are mountains?
Officially, who was considered to be the first Greeks by historians?
The Mycenaeans.
A high hill upon which a Greek fortress was built.
What is an acropolis?
The United States is officially known as what type of government?
What is a constitutional republic?
Short stories that teach the reader lessons about life or give advice on how to live.
What are fables?
What type of trade methods did the Mycenaeans use?
Violent
The type of democracy where citizens elect leaders to represent them?
Representative Democracy.
A type of government in which people rule themselves.
What is democracy?
Who is considered to be the father of democracy?
Who is Cleisthenes?
An age that is marked by great achievements.
What is the classical age?
What territory did the Mycenaeans capture?
Crete
a set of beliefs and laws that are used to govern a state, nation, or organization.
A Constitution
A government in which only a few people have all the power.
What is an oligarchy?
Who was Athens eventually conquered by?
Who are the Macedonians?
Another term for rich landowners.
What are aristocrats?
What type of government consists of rule by the societal elites?
What is aristocracy?
This man created a set of laws allowing all free men to be citizens, people who had the right to participate in government.
Solon
A democracy in which each person has a direct vote.
What is a direct democracy?
Which war featured Sparta and Athens battling for supremacy in Greece?
What are the Peloponnesian Wars?
People who had the right to participate in government.
What are citizens?
What areas were young Athenian boys trained in?
Philosophy, the arts, Geometry and Astronomy.
A ancient Greek medical doctor upon who's medical approach the west based its medical code of ethics on?
Hippocrates