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A-History Ch.10
5th Grade history Ch. 10
Question | Answer |
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peninsula where Greece is located | Balkan Peninsula |
first settlers of Greece; lived on the island of Crete | Minoaons |
first settlers of Greece;lived on the mainland of Greece | Mycenaeans |
what did the Greeks add to the Phoenician alphabet | vowels |
Greek example of a bard | Homer |
two poems composed by Homer | Illiad and Odyssey |
what is a bard | singing poet |
famous writer of fables | Aesop |
Greek philosopher known for important rules of mathematics; pythagorean theorem | Pythagoras |
Greek philosopher known for atomic theory | Democritus |
group of philosophers that argued that something is true only if someone believes it | Sophists |
Greek philosspher concerned with doing what was right and good | Socrates |
define philosopher | lover of wisdom |
the two most important Greek city-states | Sparta and Athens |
Greek form of government | city-state |
means "upper city" | acropolis |
market place | agora |
greatest scientist of ancient Greece | Archimedes |
the largest gathering place in the city | theater |
place in city where young men practiced sports | gymnasium |
long racing track, straight at one end and rounded at the other | stadium |
town of the most famous ancient stadium; where the first Olympic games took place in 776 B.C. | Olympia |
the idea that the citizens of a country should take an active part in the government of the country; comes from the Greek words that mean people and rule | democracy |
first city-state to become powerful in Greece | Sparta |
known for their courage, strength, and loyalty | Spartans |
occupation of Spartans | soldiers |
greatest cultural center in ancient Greece | Athens |
age that Spartan men became citizens | 30 |
age that Athenian men became citizens | 18 |
grew the food and did all of the work in Sparta | helots |
small country north of Greece; Alexander the Great came from here | Macedonia |
large group of foot soldiers who were armed with shields and with spears that were 14 feet long | phalanx |
the most important city in the world for that period of time | Alexandria in Egypt |
father of Alexander | Philip II |
three seas that surround Greece | Mediterranean Sea, Aegean Sea, and Ionian Sea |
book of the Bible that prophesied about Alexander | Daniel |
number of cities named Alexandria | 16 |
200- year period after Alexander died | Hellenistic Age |
the most important language | Greek |