Ancient Greece Vocab

A body of land with water on three sides

• Island

• Peninsula

• Lake

• Crete

Not Greeks, but the first civilization in the area that would become Greece, early ship builders and traders who controlled the eastern Mediterranean Sea around 2000 B.C., Collapsed around 1450 B.C.

• Minoans

• Dorians

• Mycenaeans

People from central Asia who invaded the Minoans and built the first Greek kingdoms and had kings around 1900 B.C., Overtook to Minoans in about 1450 B.C.

• Minoans

• Dorians

• Mycenaeans

(1100B.C.-750 B.C) Earthquakes and fighting among the kingdoms lead to the Mycenaean civilization collapsing, little trade, poverty, focused on farming to survive and stopped writing their alphabet and forgot how to make many things

• Ancient Greece

• The Bad Times

• Light Age

• Dark Age

Southeast peninsula of Greece, inhabited by the Dorians

• Crete

• Peloponnesus

• Greece

• Florida

Invaded Greece and settled in Peloponnesus, brought iron weapons and more advanced technology to Greece (iron weapons and farm tools were stronger and cheaper than those made of Bronze)

• Minoans

• Mycenaeans

• Dorians

A settlement in a new territory that keeps close ties to its homeland

• Colony

• Polis

• Citizen

• Crete

 a Greek city-state, similar to a tiny independent country 

• Greece

• Acropolis

• Citizen

• Polis

Main gathering place in the polis. A fortified hill where a temple was built for the local deity.

• Acropolis

• Agamemnon

• Agora

• Colony

Open area below the acropolis which served as a market and a place where people could debate issues

• Acropolis

• Agamemnon

• Agora

• Polis