Ancient Greece Vocabulary Review

agora

• a city near Thousand Oaks

• A type of sweater

• a public open air space used for events and markets

• a location of a movie

peninsula

• Florida

• a restaurant

• a flat, grassland that goes on for miles.

• a landform surrounded on three sides by water, that is connected to mainland by one border

architecture

• process of planning, designing and building structures

• building with arches

• A McDonald's

• a job

philosophy

• a way of thinking

• the study of society, nature and existence

• a shampoo

• what is found on a fortune cookie

tyranny

• a cruel and oppressive government or rule

• quarantine

• a video game

• high school

What is this?

• an old building in Asia

• a scene from Transformers

• an oracle

• Parthenon

What is the Greek definition of city-state that is centered around a small town and the countryside around it?

• polis

• agora

• tragedy

• aristocrats

Located in Delphi, this is where Greeks would go to receive predictions of future events. It is called an

• oracle

• Parthenon

• agora

• acropolis

What word best describes the land of the Greek peninsula?

• rocky and mountainous
• flat
• desert
• rolling plains

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.7

CCSS.RI.6.7

CCSS.RI.7.7

CCSS.RL.6.7

CCSS.RL.7.7

A city-state which favored democracy and a well-rounded education. 
(Also, the largest city-state by a wide margin)

• Sparta
• Athens
• Delphi
• Corinth