Ancient Greece Ch 8 & 9

A famous poet and one of the earliest Greek writers:

A building constructed in Athens in the 400s BC/

Athenian domination of the _________ League caused Sparta to declare war on Athens.

An agreement to work together:

Which of the following best describes a representative democracy?

A body of stories about gods and heroes that tries to explain how the world works.

Short stories that teach the reader lessons about life or give advice on how to live:

Greek philosophers believed that one thing was more important than anything else in life. What was it?

What happened after Alexander and his army crossed the Indus River in India?

The _________ Sea lies to the east of the Greek mainland.

A unit of soldiers mounted on horses:

The ancient Greeks believed that their _________ caused events like thunder and earthquakes.

Alexander worked to spread Greek Culture. What conclusion can you draw?

The spread of _________ culture brought Greek customs to new parts of the world.

Apollo was the god of the _________.

Because people were upset by his ideas, _________ was arrested and sentenced to death.

A Greek famous for his fables:

clear and ordered thinking:

What can you infer about ancient Greeks based upon their achievements?

People who have the right to participate in government.

Which of the following best defines a lyric poem?

One improvement that Darius made to the Persian Empire was the creation of _________.

The _________ tells the story of the last years of the Trojan War.

Why did many ancient Greeks visit the Oracle at Delphi?

The Minoans and the _________ helped shape later Greek Cultures

Because travelling by land in Greece was difficult, the Greeks

A group of warriors standing close together in a square:

Which of the following shows that Greeks strongly influenced our language?

What caused the Peloponnesian War to begin?

Many of the geometry rules from the writings of _________ are still used today.