Ancient Greece Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
Battle of Marathon | Persia loses to Athenians and is prevented from capturing the rest of Greece |
Olympic Games | Event to demonstrate heroism and strength - polis completed against one another |
Myth of the minotaur | Story of the first Greeks on the island of crete which held a half-man half-bull in a labyrinth - creation story of Greece |
Trojan War | This walled city was attacked by King Agamemnon and his Greek allies and in this conflict was burned to the ground |
Peloponnesian War | This conflict was between Athens and Sparta (leading the other city states) - Sparta won, but did not destroy Athens completely |
Spartan Society | Military focus, children raised to be warriors, left no culture |
Athenian Society | Democracy, literature, arts focus |
Hoplites | Warriors with round shields who moved in unison |
Gods | Each one is related to a city-state |
Polis | City States |
Minoans | First people to live in Greece |
Battle of Thermopylae | King Zerses of Persia vs King Leonidas, 300 Spartans, win for Persia |
Shield | Most effective Spartan weapon |
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