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Ancient Greece Vocab
Question | Answer |
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1st Greeks on island of Crete | Minoans |
King of Minoans | King Minos |
Had a place at Knossos on the island of Crete | Minoans / King Minos |
Paintings made in wet plaster | Frecoes |
Athletic ritual of the Minoans | Bull Jumping |
Greeks who lived on mainland Greece, on the Balkan Peninsula | Myceneans |
The big peninsula of Greece | Balkan Peninsula |
The smaller peninsula that Athens sits on | Attica / Attic Peninsula |
The smaller peninsula that Sparta sits on | Peloponnesus / Peloponnesian Peninsula |
The word for Greek city-state | Polis |
The hill in the Greek polis that has temples and the fort/citadel | Acropolis |
The market place and public meeting/speaking place | Agora |
Cutting flat layers into the side of the hills to create farmland | Terracing / Terrace farming |
Ruled by one, a head chief, or king | Monarchy |
Ruled by the best, rich, or noble class | Aristocracy |
Ruled by the few | Oligarchy |
Ruled by one person who illegally takes power and rules brutally | Tyranny |
Ruled by the people | Democracy |
Type of Democracy that all citizens participate directly in decisions, speaking, and voting | Direct Democracy |
Tyrant in Athens who makes harsh laws | Draco |
Tyrant in Athens who eliminates slavery based on debt, and creates jury of peers | Solon |
Reforms Athens and makes it more democratic. Splits Athens into 10 tribes. | Cleisthenes |
Great leader of Athens during the Golden Age | Pericles |
Uses Delian League money to build the Parthenon in Athens | Pericles |
Peasants/slaves in Sparta | Helots |
Standing armies that could afford their own weapons | Hoplites |
Stories with gods, used to help explain, nature, human condition, and asking gods for benefits. | Myths |
Ways in which gods converse with humans | Oracles |
King of the gods | Zeus |
Queen of the gods | Hera |
Goddess of war and wisdom | Athena |
Goddess of hunting and the moon | Artemis |
God of music, poetry, and light | Apollo |
Goddess of love | Aphrodite |
Epic of the Trojan War | Iliad |
Epic of King Odysseus returning home after the Trojan War | The Odyssey |
Athens and Sparta team up to defeat the Persians | Persian War |
Athens vs. Sparta | Peloponnesian War |
Delian League vs. Peloponnesian League | Peloponnesian War |
Great time of Greek cultural advancement during the 400s BC | Golden Age |