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Where do the Greek gods live?

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Mnt. Olympus

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Who are the Titans?

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The gods before the Olympians

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What god is the king of the Olympians?

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Zeus

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Who was the god of sky and lightning?

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Zeus

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How did Zeus gain power?

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Overthrew father (Cronos)

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Who was Hercules?

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He was one of Zeus’ demi-god sons

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Who is Zeus’ wife?

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Hera

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What is Hera the goddess of?

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Marrige, women, childbirth, heirs, kings, empires

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Who is the god of the underworld?

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Hades

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How is Hades related to Zeus?

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He is his brother

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What is the river of sticks?

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The line between the underworld and heaven

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Who is the god of the sea, rivers, floods, droughts ect…?

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Poseidon

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How is Poseidon related to Zeus?

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He is his brother

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Who is Demeter?

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She is the goddess of grain, agriculture, and the harvest

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How is Demeter related to Zeus?

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She is his sister

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What is Aphrodite the god of?

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Love and beauty

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Who is Aphrodite the daughter of?

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Uranus

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What is Aphrodite one of, meaning she techniclly isnt an Olympian?

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She is one of the deitics

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What is Hestia the god of?

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She is the goddess of hearth

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How is Hestia related to Zeus?

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She is his sister

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What is Ares the god of?

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War and justice

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T or F? Is Ares the son of Zeus and Hera?

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TRUE

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23
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Who was the only god considered “ugly’?

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Hephaestus

24
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What god never told a lie?

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Apollo

25
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What god is asociated with the moon?

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Artimis

26
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Who is the messenger of the gods?

A

Hermes

27
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When and where did the ancient Greek culture first emerge?

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Around 1600 B.C in Mycenae

28
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How many peninsulas make up much of the Greek landmasses?

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2

29
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What 3 seas did Greeks use to gain contact with the outside world?

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Aegean Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Sea

30
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What was the name of the first Greek state?

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Mycenae

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At what time did the Mycenaean civilization reach its height?

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Between 1400 b.c. and 1200 b.c.

32
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When the Mycenaean cilvilization was at its height in the beginning of the Greeks, what type of government was in place?

A

Monarchy

33
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What kind of people were the Myceneans?

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They were warrior people, and prided themselves on heroic deeds

34
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According to Homer, what happened with the Mycenaeans at Troy?

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They “sacked” or attacked troy around 1250 B.C

35
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What led to the fall of Mycenaean civilization?

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States fighting, major widespread earthquakes, Gree-speaking invaders 1100 B.C.

36
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Why was the period after the fall of the Mycenaean civilzation called the “Dark Age”?

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It was a time when the population declined and food production dropped.

37
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What system of writing did the Greeks adopt to give them a new writing system?

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The Phonecian Alphabet

38
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When did Homer appear?

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During the Dark Age

39
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What kind of poems did Homer write?

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Epic poems

40
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What were the 2 first great epic poems in Greece?

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Iliad and the Odessy

41
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How is arete earned?

A

Won in struggle or contest

42
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What became the central focus of Greek life?

A

The Polis

43
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What is a Polis?

A

A Greek City-State

44
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Where was the centural meeting place in a police?

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Usually a hill. An acropolis was at the top of the hill.

45
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What was the acropolis used for?

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Used for refuge during an attack, or sometimes a religious center

46
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What is the place below the acropolis?

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An agora, or an open area where people could be assembled, or be used as a market.

47
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By the fifth century B.C what was the population of Athens?

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more than 300,000

48
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What was the military system based on?

A

Hopilites

49
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What are hopilites?

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Heavily armed foot soldiers

50
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What is a phlanax?

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battle as a unit, marching shoulder to shoulder in a rectangular formation

51
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What did Aristarchus of Samos do?

A

He created the theory that the sun is at the center of the universe and the earth rotates around it

52
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What did eratosthenes do?

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He determined the earth was round, and calculated its circumference

53
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What did Euclid do?

A

He wrote a geometry textbook

54
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What did Archimedes of Syracuse do?

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He established the value of pi, invented the “archimedes screw”

55
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What did epicurus do?

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Founder of Epicureanism

56
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What is Epicureanism?

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The pursuit of happiness for yourself, having the mindset that happiness is the chief goal in life

57
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When was the time of Archaic Greece?

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1650 B.C-700 B.C

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