Going Greek-Social Studies
for a greek simulation....about ancient greece
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- Greek city-state
- Polis
- Monotheistic
- Belief in one god
- What do we call and ancient Greek preistess who claimed to see the future?
- An oracle
- Which polis had a thriving textile industy, colonized all over the eastern Mediterranean, and founded Byzantium at the entrance of the Black Sea?
- Megara
- Polytheistic
- Belief in many gods
- arete
- Personal excellence
- Which polis had a near-perfert location that ensured its success as a great seaport and commercial trade center?
- Corinth
- Which polis had a poor climate and locatioin, but became reowned for its musicians, poets, sculptors, and open-air theaters?
- Argos
- Famous sayings that all Greeks tried to live by
- "Know thyself"
- First 5 letters of Greek alphabet in order
- Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon
- Which polis was where democracy flourished and sculptors, mathmetician, philosophers, playwrights, and common citizens lived in freedom and participated in state decisions?
- Athens
- Greek people called themseleves...
- Hellenes
- location of 12 major greek gods and goddesses
- Mt. Olympus
- Ruling god on Mt.Olympus
- Zeus
- Which city-state had a military tradition of great bravery and human physical endurance, but to attain its goals harshly trained its boys in "boot camps" from the age of seven?
- Sparta
- Most frequently used item of clothing
- A chiton