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3rd 9wks 6th S S
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Another name for the upper class or nobility is called _______ | aristocracy |
| A person who is loyal to a government and who is entitled to protection by that government is called a _______. | citizen |
| The term _____ means "rule by the few" | Oligarchy |
| ______ is a government in which the citizens make the political decisions. | Democracy |
| The Greek word for "city-state" is ________ | Polis |
| In Greece, a ______ is someone who took power in an illegal way. | Tyrant |
| A short story that usually involves animals and teaches a moral lesson is called a _______. | fables |
| The southern half of Greece forms a second peninsula called ____________. | Peloponnesus |
| Greeks were _____which means they worshiped more than one god. | Polytheistic |
| ______ is a body of land that has water on three sides. | peninsula |
| In Greek society, landowners were part of the _____class. | upper |
| ________was the largest sea to the south of Greece. | Mediterranean Sea |
| ______ are stories that people tell to explain beliefs about their world. | myths |
| The southern half of Greece is connected to the rest of Greece by a narrow strip of land called ______. | isthmus |
| The sea was a source of _______, an important part of the Greek diet. | fish |
| The Greek gods and goddess lived on _________ the highest mountain in Greece. | Mount Olympus |
| What 3 seas played a major roll in the life of Ancient Greece? | Mediterranean Sea, Ionian Sea, and the Aegean Sea |
| Greece traded with other regions including ______and ______. | Egypt and Italy |
| _______ was the ruler of the Greek gods. | Zeus |
| Greeks were _____which means they worshiped more than one god. | polytheistic |
| The Greeks borrowed the alphabet from the ____________. | Phoenicians |
| The phrase "Achilles heel" is used to refer to a person's _______ area. | weakest |
| _____ was the goddess of wisdom, a warrior, and the patron of crafts. | Athena |
| The ____ of the city life was called the agora. | center |
| The Greeks learned about ________ from trading with the people of Anatolia. | Coins |
| The Olympics were part of a major religious festival that honored _________. | Zeus |
| Myths often began as ______stories and later were written down. | oral |
| A monarch is a _____ or _____ who has supreme power. | king....queen |
| A ______ is a state made of a city and its surrounding lands. | city-state |
| In an oligarchy, people rule because of _______ or _______. | wealth.......landownership |
| In Greece a citizen had to be born to parents who were _____ citizens. | free |
| Aristocrats were descended from ______ ancestors. | high-born |
| Sparta's government included two _______who ruled | kings |
| The United States is an example of a ________ Democracy. | Indirect |
| Tyrants would enact laws cancelling the _____ poor people owed the wealthy. | debt |
| Helots often ________ against the Spartans | rebelled |
| The social class in Sparta included: citizens, free noncitizens, and ________. | helots |
| Only free _____ were citizens who could take part in Athens limited democracy. | males |
| In Athens, the __________ voted on laws. | Assembly |
| Education for girls in Sparta focused on making them _________. | strong |
| Modern ________ are inspired by the solider who ran 25 miles to tell the victory of the the war. | marathons |
| Athenian women had less ________ than Spartan women. | freedom |
| In Athens, some slaves earned ______ to buy their freedom. | wages |
| 300 Spartan soldiers guarded the narrow pass at ________ for two days against the Persians. | Thermopolye |
| Although the city-states fought, they _______ against the Persians. | united |
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