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THE ANCIENT GREEKS
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GREEK INTRO
1. At roughly what time was the golden age of Ancient Greece?
2.
Why should Americans study ancient Greece?
GREEK CITY-STATES
1. How is a city-state more than just a city?
2.
What is an agora?
THE LIFE OF A GREEK GIRL
1. How were women oppressed in ancient Greece?
2.
What would happen if a family did not have a male heir?
3.
What was the goal of every Greek wife?
THE LIFE OF A GREEK BOY
1. What ceremony did boys go through before becoming men?
2.
What were boys sent to do at age 18?
3.
Why were Greek men expected to keep their bodies in shape?
4.
What were the two tools teachers used to teach reading and writing?
GREEK RELIGION
1. According to Greek moral code, what two crimes were capital offenses?
2.
Explain how Greece did not have a strict religious code.
3.
Who was the Oracle of Delphi?
4.
Which god or goddess was most honored on Athens and why?
GREEK DEMOCRACY
1. How did citizens sometimes vote in Athens?
2.
What type of democracy did Athens have?
GREEK OLYMPICS
1. When did the first Olympics occur?
2.
What are the five sports in the pentathlon?
3.
What was the Heraia?
SPARTA
1. How were the lives of Spartan women different from the lives of Athenian women?
2.
Sparta was one of the few societies to produce no _______________________.
3.
Why were Spartan boys flogged yearly?
4.
What did Spartans do with their unwanted children?
HIPPOCRATES
1. Hippocrates is often called:
2.
What was often the fate of young children in Ancient Greece?
3.
Write one line from the Hippocratic Oath:
ALEXANDER THE GREAT:
1. What did Alexander spread around the world?
2.
What empire did Alexander conquer?
3.
Why was Alexander a successful conqueror?
SOCRATES AND PLATO
1. How was Socrates different from the sophists?
2.
Who were the “scientists” of Ancient Greece?
3.
What is the Socratic method?
4.
What was the charge brought against Socrates?
HOMER, THE ILIAD & THE ODYSSEY
1. How was the dark age of Greece different from the Golden Age of Greece?
2.
What are three rumors surrounding Homer the poet?
3.
What started the Trojan War?
4.
Which did the Greeks like better: The Iliad or The Odyssey? Why?
HERODOTUS
1. Herodotus is often called:
2.
What wars did Herodotus write about?
3.
What is “western civilization”?
GREEK SLAVERY
1. How many slaves did most Greek households possess?
2.
What does humane mean?
3.
How did lawyers often get information from slaves?
4.
Where did the Greeks obtain their slaves?
DEATH AND BURIAL
1. Greeks believed your spirit would be at rest if:
2.
What is a garland?
GREEK WARFARE
1. How did one warship defeat another?
2.
Sparta was known for its infantry; Athens was known for its _______________.
3.
What is a hoplite?
4.
Where did Sparta and Athens stop King Xerxes’ march into Greece?
GREEK THEATER
1. What amplified the voices of Greek actors?
2.
What innovation did Sophocles create?
3.
What is a chorus?
4.
What is catharsis?
5.
What type of play is a crude parody?
6.
Who was the patron god of the theater?
7.
Whose opinion did the chorus represent in Greek plays?