Ancient Greece vocabulary

Question 1

Acropolis

Answer 1

The highest point in ancient Greece city

Question 2

Agora

Answer 2

An open space in an ancient Greece city that served as a market place and social center

Question 3

Aristocracy

Answer 3

An upper class that is richer and more powerful than the rest of society

Question 4

Epic poem

Answer 4

A long story in the form of a narrative poem

Question 5

Hero

Answer 5

A character, whose face is a challenge that demands courage, strength and intelligence

Question 6

Labyrinth

Answer 6

A maze

Question 7

Monarchy

Answer 7

A government ruled by a single person, such as a king

Question 8

Myth

Answer 8

And old story told to explain an event, or justify a Belief or action

Question 9

Oligarchy

Answer 9

A government ruled by a few powerful citizens

Question 10

Polis

Answer 10

A Greek city state

Question 11

Raw material

Answer 11

A substance from which other things are made

Question 12

Tyrant

Answer 12

An ancient Greek city states a ruler who took power illegally

Question 13

Homer

Answer 13

A blind bard,(poet) in ancient Greece, who wrote the epic poems, the Iliad and the odyssey

Question 14

Minoan

Answer 14

A sophisticated Greek civilization on the island of Crete centered on cities governed from magnificent royal places

Question 15

Mycenaean

Answer 15

An aggressive group of people who settled in mainland Greece around 2000 BC

Question 16

Odysseus

Answer 16

The hero of the Greek, epic poem, the odyssey

Question 17

Trojan war

Answer 17

A war between the Greeks and Troy around 1200 BC as told in the epic poem, the Iliad

Question 18

Alliance

Answer 18

An agreement between nations to fight each other’s enemies; a partnership

Question 19

Democracy

Answer 19

A form of government, in which citizens have a direct role in governing themselves, or elect representatives to lead them

Question 20

Helot

Answer 20

State-owned slave, who was part of the lowest class of ancient Greeks

Question 21

Athens

Answer 21

A city state in Greece named for its devotion to Athena, the goddess of wisdom

Question 22

Darius l

Answer 22

Persian Emperor who vowed to punish Athens as revenge for helping Ionia

Question 23

Solon

Answer 23

He improved conditions for the poor in Athens, by limiting the power of aristocracy and allowing an assembly of free citizens to pass laws

Question 24

Sparta

Answer 24

A Greek city state located in Eurotas river valley protected by mountains

Question 25

Thermopylae

Answer 25

Important Mountain Pass occupied by king Leonidas

Question 26

Xerxes

Answer 26

Emperor of Persia, successor of Darius