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Ancient Greece
Question | Answer |
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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 |