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Ancient Greece 3
Ancient Greece.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What were the Greeks first to do in the Mediteranean? | Make sea-going voyages |
| How many islands are in Greece? | 2,000 |
| Why is Greece's location important? | They are located among Africa,Europe, and Asia and can trade easily. |
| How do we know about the past before people could write? | Objects |
| When did the Golden Age of Athens begin? | 500 bc |
| When did the citizens of Athens vote for the first time and who voted? | 510 bc. Male citizens |
| What other civilization influences Greek art? | Egypt |
| What did the Greeks invent? | Comedy& tradgedy |
| Who was Pericles? | The leader of Athens |
| Who was the most important goddess in Ancient Athens? | Athena (duh) |
| How do the Ancient Greeks affect us today? | They have influenced many of our ways of life: the Olympics,Democracy, medicine. |
| What is Democracy? | A form of government developed in Athens in which all citizens have a say. |
| what is Sparta? | A city-state known for the roughness of its citizens, where boys were taken from their families at the age of seven to start training as soldiers. |
| What is Athens? | A city-state that valued the arts and sciences that produced many poets, playwrights, and philosophers. |
| What was Marathon? | The site of a battle between the Greeks and the Persians, after which a messenger ran about 25 miles to bring Athens the news of the victory. |
| Ancient Greece developed on a rocky _____ | peninsula |
| Ancient Greece was in Southern Europe and it jutted into the ______ sea. | Medditeranean |
| Ancient Greece was made up of a number of independent _____ | City-states |
| All Greeks believed in the same ____, or gods and goddesses. | deities |
| The idea of _____ developed in Greece. | democracy |
| The _____, which are held every four years began here. | Olympics |
| Our system uses an _____ similar to Greece's | Alphabet |