click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Ancient Greece
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| name for the city-state where democracy began | Athens |
| first battle in which the Greeks defeated the Persians; also the name of a very long running race | Marathon |
| used by the people of Sparta as money | iron bars |
| the main god of ancient Greece | Zeus |
| the Greek goddess of growing things | Demeter |
| a famous Greek historian | Herodotus |
| name for a place people went to talk to the gods | oracle |
| the Greek word for "marketplace" | agora |
| a made-up story that explained something people did not understand | myth |
| a word that comes from the Greek language which literally means "the people rule" | democracy |
| a word that means "rule by a king or queen" | monarchy |
| the name of a famous Greek philosopher who taught young people to question society, to be like gadflies on a horse | Socrates |