Mr kaplan Greece

Question 1

Peninsula

Answer 1

Land surrounded by water on 3 sides (Mainland Greece is a Peninsula)

Question 2

Acropolis

Answer 2

A raised, fortified city like the ancient Acropolis in Athens.

Question 3

Democracy

Answer 3

Government by the people created in Athens Greece

Question 4

Heritage

Answer 4

Your traits that can be inherited from your parents and family

Question 5

minoans

Answer 5

Peaceful people from the island of Crete. The first known civilization of Greece

Question 6

mycenaeans

Answer 6

More warlike than the Minoans, another early City-state of Greece

Question 7

trojan horse

Answer 7

A hollow wooden horse given as a “gift” to the city of Troy that allowed the Mycenaeans to sneak into the city of Troy to finally win the Trojan War after 10 years

Question 8

Homer

Answer 8

The Blind Poet who wrote the Epic Poems (The Iliad and the Odyssey)

Question 9

The Iliad

Answer 9

Epic written by Homer that tells of the Hero Achilles and the Trojan War

Question 10

oddesy

Answer 10

Epic written by Homer about the trip home from Troy after the war.

Question 11

The dark ages

Answer 11

After the Trojan War ends and Greece falls into a period of depression

Question 12

Hero

Answer 12

Someone who goes on a quest in Greek Mythology. They have powers given to them by the gods and are usually Demi-gods (half human, half god)

Question 13

Myth

Answer 13

Stories used to teach morals and proper behavior or to explain the unexplainable

Question 14

Fortified

Answer 14

strengthened

Question 15

Citizen

Answer 15

A person who can vote or is born in a specific place

Question 16

Oracle

Answer 16

People who can talk to the gods or interpret the gods intentions

Question 17

city state

Answer 17

An independent city that has its own king and laws

Question 18

Describe the Geography of Greece

Answer 18

¾ mountains, lots of islands and surrounded by seas. Mainland is a peninsula

Question 19

How did mountains both help and hurt Ancient Greece?

Answer 19

The mountains isolated and protected the people of Greece

Question 20

What 2 continents could you find “ancient Greece”?

Answer 20

Europe and Asia

Question 21

What were the 3 things that made people “Greek”?

Answer 21

Language
Religion
Geography (where they are located)

Question 22

Who were the Minoans? Describe them and their civilization?

Answer 22

Peaceful people on the island of Crete. No record of any war

Question 23

Briefly be able to describe the myth of King Minos and the Minotaur

Answer 23

The Minotaur was in a labyrinth under the castle in Knossos, Crete. It was fed Athenians every year. Theseus defeated the Minotaur with a dagger given to him and a spool of thread that he used to get out of the labyrinth

Question 24

Who were the Mycenaeans? Describe their civilization.

Answer 24

Mainland early Greeks who were more warlike than the Minoans

Question 25

Who was the hero that was searching for the Golden Fleece to save his mother’s life?

Answer 25

Jason was the hero in the story of the Golden Fleece

Question 26

Who is the King of the gods?

Answer 26

Zeus

Question 26

What other hero helped in the search for the Golden Fleece?

Answer 26

Hercules or Heracles

Question 27

Who is the Queen of the gods?

Answer 27

Hera

Question 28

Who is the goddess of Wisdom?

Answer 28

Athena

Question 29

Who is the goddess of Beauty?

Answer 29

Aphrodite

Question 30

Who is god of the seas?

Answer 30

poesiden

Question 31

Where did the God and Goddesses of Greece live?

Answer 31

Mt. olympus

Question 32

What mythical beasts protected food from King Phineas and had to be defeated by Jason and the Argonauts?

Answer 32

The harpies