Geography Vovabulary People Greek Mythology Leaders
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What is a rocky, mountainous land?
Summarizes the geography of Greece
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What is democracy?
The "rule of the people."
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Who are soldiers?
Spartan boys were trained from an early age to become
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Who is Heracles or Hercules?
This Greek hero has been the subject of dozens of movies
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Who is Draco?
The Greeks felt that this leader's laws were too strict
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What is a peninsula?
In geographical terms, the land of Greece is a large
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What is aristocrats?
After Greek city-states were ruled by kings, they were ruled by.
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Who is Alexander the Great?
He died at age 33 after he became sick in Babylon
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Who is Ares?
The Greek god or goddess of war
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Who is Cleisthenes?
Famous Greek leader that believed in Democracy
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What is expert shipbuilders?
Because traveling by land in Greece was difficult, the Greeks became
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What is a representative democracy?
In this type of government citizens elect officials to make the laws.
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Who was Phillip II?
Alexander the Great's father
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What are The Iliad and the Odyssey?
The Greeks tried to follow the examples of great heroes and apply the lessons learned in their daily lives. Two of these famous stories written by Homer were
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Who is Cyrus?
Darius ruled Persia after this leader's son died
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What is the Minoans?
A group of people built an advanced society on the island of Crete.
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What is a lyric poem?
A poem set to music.
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Who is Pericles?
Under this leader democracy in Athens worked best
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Who is Apollo?
The Greeks went to the oracle at Delphi to ask this god or goddess questions
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Who is Alexander the Great?
After his death the empire he created was divided into three kingdoms
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What are volcanic eruptions?
The myth about the god Hephaestus working in his fiery forge explained this event in nature.
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What is Zorastrianism?
The religion that made sense to many Persians.
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Who is Darius?
This Persian leader was angry at the Greeks because they gave aid to other Greeks who rebelled against Persia
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Who is Demeter?
According to Greek mythology, there are different seasons because this God or goddess is separated form their daughter during the winter
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Who is Darius?
As ruler of Persia this leader was most interested in making Persia's empire strong






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