Early Greece Vocabulary

What is a Peninsula?

• A word for Greek City State

• Body of land surrounded by water on three sides.

• Capital of Greece

Who were the Minoans?

• Seafaring Greek Civilization.

• Greek Leader who set up harsh laws.

• Bad Leaders

Who were the Mycenaean's?

Another word for Greek City State is called a...

• Draco

• Lyric

• Polis

What is a Tyrant?

Match the following

• Athens

• Poem that tells a story

• Greek Mythology

• Rich land owners who run the city state

• Lyric

• Poem that is sung

• Epic

• Believed the gods did good and bad things in life

• Aristocrats

• Capital of Greece

Who was Solon?

Who was Cleisthenes?

Draco was...

• Bad Leader

• Greek leader who set up harsh laws

• A word for Greek City State

What was the Olympics?