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Let’s Get Greeked Out!
Jeopardy
Vocabulary
People
Wars
City-States
Gov’t
Miscellaneous
A traditional
story about gods,
goddesses or
heroes.
The Olympic
games were held
for his honor
The war between
the Greeks and
Persians
Greek city-states
were governed
by groups of
noblemen
A good or
service brought
in from another
country or
region
A group of
Athenian
Society made up
of people born
outside Athens
Developed a
form of direct
democracy
An epic about
the Trojan War
They were a
city-state that
valued the
warrior
All citizens
directly
participate in the
Gov’t and
decision making
process
A Greek ruler
who seized
power by force,
but who rules
with the people’s
support
5 people elected
to make sure the
Spartan Kings
stayed within the
law
Improved
Athens’s
economy but
clashed with the
nobles
The tension
sparred between
Athens and
Sparta
Under Pericles
they became a
major power
This was based
on an idea that
people can and
should rule
themselves
Poets and
historians recited
these about
great heroes,
deeds and events
Painting
completed on
wet plastered
walls
Created
Athens’s first
written law code
The Athenians
although
outnumbered
defeated the
Persians
They were
considered the
lowest class in
The Athenian
society
A slave who
taught manners
to young boys.
A good or
service sold to
another country
or region
Set up a court
system with
citizen jurors
The Spartan 300
that were all
killed because
they refused to
surrender
Native people
from
Peloponnesus
who were made
into slaves by
the invaders
from the north
The heavily
armed Greek
Infantry
A government
ruled by Kings
Deals with moral
duty and
knowing good
from bad
A place where
Greeks believed
that the gods
spoke through
their priests and
priestesses.
The Greek word
for city-state
Warned
Athenians to
leave the city
and escape
Crushed the
Greek revolts in
Asia Minor
A hill where
most public
buildings in a
city-state were
built
Citizens elected
people to govern
for them
Men who
opened schools
for older boys
The period in
which Athens
grew to its
greatest power
and wealth
The War
between Troy
and the
Mycenaens
A market place
found in a polis
This was an
alliance of citystates formed to
protect them
Athenian males
were taught the
art of public
speaking known
as
Which city-state
does the word
abduction come
from