Chapter 8 Vocab

Question 1

Long poem

Answer 1

Epic

Question 2

Stories on actions of gods and goddesses affected the life of people

Answer 2

Myth

Question 3

Stories past from generation to generation

Answer 3

Mythology

Question 4

Large hills where Greek city-states were built, and later became center of religion.

Answer 4

Acropolis

Question 5

Rule by few

Answer 5

Oligarchy

Question 6

Person who took control of a government by force and ruled alone

Answer 6

Tyrant

Question 7

Rule by people

Answer 7

Democracy

Question 8

Independent city-state

Answer 8

Colony

Question 9

Every member had 1 vote, and the idea that received the most votes.

Answer 9

Majority rule

Question 10

A peninsula extending from mainland Europe into Mediterranean Sea; occupied by Greece, Albania, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovnia, Serbia and Montenegro

Answer 10

Balkan Peninsula

Question 10

A peninsula at the west end of Asia, located between the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, now occupied by Turkey.

Answer 10

Asia Minor

Question 11

The largest Greek island located southeast

Answer 11

Crete

Question 11

A city-state and empire in Ancient Greece, located on the eastern side of the Peloponnesus

Answer 11

Mycenae

Question 11

An ancient city in Northwestern Asia Minor

Answer 11

Troy

Question 11

An Ancient Greek city-state and rival of Athens, located on the southern end of the Peloponnesus

Answer 11

Sparta

Question 12

An Ancient Greek city-state located near the southeastern coast of Greece

Answer 12

Athens

Question 12

A place sacred to the ancient Greeks located in central Greece near the gulf of Corinth

Answer 12

Delphi

Question 13

A plain in the northwestern Peloponnesus. An Ancient Greek religious center and site of the ancient Olympic Games

Answer 13

Olympia

Question 14

What is Greece geographics?

Answer 14

It’s a peninsula, lots of islands, colonies and mountains

Question 15

How did the Greeks obtain goods?

Answer 15

They traded and had colonies to trade

Question 15

One of the earliest civilizations in Greece developed on the island of Crete

Answer 15

The Minoans

Question 16

Named after a city, were warlike people, mostly peasants or poor farmers

Answer 16

Mycenaeans

Question 17

Stories handed down from Earlier times that explain the past

Answer 17

Legend

Question 18

A time when the Greeks abandoned their palaces and cities, trade stopped between Greeks and others

Answer 18

The Greek Dark Ages

Question 19

This was called a polis. Each polis connected a city and the farms, towns and villages around it

Answer 19

Greek City-State

Question 20

Who governed in Ancient Greece?

Answer 20

Small groups of aristocrats or wealthy ruling class who replaced the kings that ruled in the Dark Ages. This governing is called oligarchy

Question 21

The Greeks have become part of growing commerce, or large scale trade. This trade brought much wanted goods and resources to the city states.

Answer 21

Greek Colonies/Commerce

Question 22

What connection helped to form Greek Culture?

Answer 22

Besides identifying with their own city-state Greeks also identified with and had strong connection with all Greeks by having:
Common language
Shared history, writing, religion and athletics

Question 23

Even though they had common culture. Greek city-states were rivals often fighting over land and resources. Each city-state kept large armies to defend territory

Answer 23

Warfare

Question 24

Based on the Phoenician the first letters were alpha and beta

Answer 24

Greek alphabet

Question 25

Sparta/Athens

Answer 25

Education important to both
Spartans more strong and disciplined.young boys grew up in barracks
Athens focused on good citizens and good behavior from fables do Aesop
Spartans ruled with 2 kings during war(unusual)
Athens located on Harbor of the Aegean Sea