Ancient Greece Vocabulary

What is the Aegean Sea?

• southern-most part peninsula on which Sparta is located

• a sea that lies to the west of Greece

• a sea that lies to the east of Greece

• an entire Greek city-state

What is Minoans?

• They developed/lived on Crete. They were considered "highly advanced" because they had a writing system and stone palaces with running water.

• the blind Greek poet who wrote the Iliad & Odyssey

• legal member of a country or city-state

• art and practice of government

A legal member of a country or city-state.

• Homer

• citizen

• Polis

• Politics

Who is Homer?

• art and practice of government

• a poem that tells of the events during the Trojan War

• the blind Greek poet who wrote the Iliad & Odyssey

• military housing

The story of the hero Odysseus and his voyage home ( another 10 years)

• Minoans

• aristocracy

• Trojan War

• Odyssey

What is Mycenaeans?

• hereditary class of rulers; Greek for "rule by the best people"

• a sea that lies to the east of Greece

• A poem that tells of the events during the Trojan War.

• they lived/ developed on mainland Greece. They were known for making fine bronze weapons and pottery.

What is a Polis?

• an entire Greek city-state

• a sea that lies to the west of Greece

• the blind Greek poet who wrote the Iliad & Odyssey

• mild, wet winters and hot, dry summers; grew olive trees and grape vines.

"high city" in Greek ; the upper part of an ancient Greek city, where public buildings and city defenses were located.

• acropolis

• polis

• citizen

• none of these

A poem that tells of the events during Trojan War.

• Polis

• Politics

• Odyssey

• Iliad

What is politics?

• legal member of a country or city-state

• an entire Greek city-state

• art and practice of government

• none of these