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Ancient Greece 3
Ancient Greece.
Question | Answer |
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What were the Greeks first to do in the Mediteranean? | Make sea-going voyages |
How many islands are in Greece? | 2,000 |
Why is Greece's location important? | They are located among Africa,Europe, and Asia and can trade easily. |
How do we know about the past before people could write? | Objects |
When did the Golden Age of Athens begin? | 500 bc |
When did the citizens of Athens vote for the first time and who voted? | 510 bc. Male citizens |
What other civilization influences Greek art? | Egypt |
What did the Greeks invent? | Comedy& tradgedy |
Who was Pericles? | The leader of Athens |
Who was the most important goddess in Ancient Athens? | Athena (duh) |
How do the Ancient Greeks affect us today? | They have influenced many of our ways of life: the Olympics,Democracy, medicine. |
What is Democracy? | A form of government developed in Athens in which all citizens have a say. |
what is Sparta? | A city-state known for the roughness of its citizens, where boys were taken from their families at the age of seven to start training as soldiers. |
What is Athens? | A city-state that valued the arts and sciences that produced many poets, playwrights, and philosophers. |
What was Marathon? | The site of a battle between the Greeks and the Persians, after which a messenger ran about 25 miles to bring Athens the news of the victory. |
Ancient Greece developed on a rocky _____ | peninsula |
Ancient Greece was in Southern Europe and it jutted into the ______ sea. | Medditeranean |
Ancient Greece was made up of a number of independent _____ | City-states |
All Greeks believed in the same ____, or gods and goddesses. | deities |
The idea of _____ developed in Greece. | democracy |
The _____, which are held every four years began here. | Olympics |
Our system uses an _____ similar to Greece's | Alphabet |