Ancient Greek

an old story told to explain an event or justify a belief or action

• myth

• labyrinth

• Minioan

• raw materials

2000 B.C., a new group of people from farther east settled in the mainland of Greece, establishing villages throughout Greece and speaking an early version of the Greek language. Copied much of the Minoan culture

• labyrinth

• Mycenaeans

• cuneiform

• polis

what are the four governements

• anarchy

• aristocracy

• democracy

• oligarchy

• monarchy

What is the Trojan War

• The war between Sumer and the Babylonians

• Setting for Homer’s epic poems; fought between the Greeks and the Anatolian (Asia Minor - Asian portion of present-day Turkey) city of Troy around 1200 B.C.

• Achilles

• the war between Egypt and Romania

- a hero from the, Odyssey by Homer; fought in The Trojan War for ten years, he came up with a trick to play on the Trojans with a wooden horse

• Odysseus

• Percy jackson

• Zeus

• Achiles

tradition says he was a blind bard (poet) who lived in ancient Greece; he composed the Iliad and the Odyssey 

• Homer

• hero

• poems

• epic tales

long poetic stories (typically about extraordinary deeds of extraordinary characters)

• epic tales

• agora

• bedtime story

• hieroglyphs

what is a hero

• Someone who saves a person

• a character who faces a challenge that demands courage, strength, and intelligence

• A person who wears a cape

• a person who tells bedtime stories

sophisticated civilization that emerged by 2000 B.C. that centered on cities governed from magnificent royal palaces

• Minoan

• demoracy

• monarchy

• oligarchy

A labyrinth is a