| A | B |
|---|
| Monarchy | King or Queen has supreme power |
| oligarchy | A few upper class people who ruled because of wealth or land ownership |
| Aristocracy | nobility who were descended from high-born ancestor |
| Tyrant | someone who took power in an illegal way |
| Epic poem | long poem that included ancient greek heros |
| Greek myth | stories that explain beliefs of the Greek world |
| Greek myth | stories that told about Greek gods and goddesses and how they related to humans |
| Fable | short story involving animals and teaches a lesson |
| peninsula | body of land surrounded by water on three sides |
| mountains | covered 70 - 80% of Greece |
| mountains | made travel difficult |
| mountains | made it difficult for Greece to unite under a single government |
| Greek farmers | herders, grew olives and grapes |
| Greece had plenty of | good sites for harbors |
| Seas surrounding Greece | provided transportation, fish, trade |
| Jobs created because of the seas in Greece | sailors, shipbuilders, traders, fishermen |
| The first civilization in Greece | Mycenaean |
| Who the Greeks got their system of writing from | Phoenicians |
| Mount Olympus | where the Greek gods and goddesses lived and the highest point in Greece |
| Zeus | ruler of all the gods and goddesses |
| Olympics | games held to honor Zeus |
| Ares | god of war |
| Aphrodite | goddess of love |
| Artemis | goddess of the hunt |
| Hephaestus | god of fire |
| Hera | wife of Zeus |
| Hermes | messenger of the gods |
| Hestia | goddess of home life |
| Poseidon | god of seas and earthquakes |
| Apollo | god of archery, healing, music, poetry |
| Athena | goddess of wisdom |
| Homer | Greek poet who wrote the Iliad and Odyssey |
| Iliad and Odyssey | Epic poem |
| "The Hare and the Tortoise" | fable |
| Aesop | Greek storyteller |
| polis | Greek city-state |
| agora | Greek market-place where people went for business and public gatherings |
| acropolis | hill in Greece that had a temple |
| Sparta | Greek military state |
| Athens | School of Greece |
| Persian War | War fought between the Greeks and the Persians |
| Peloponnesian War | War fought between Sparta and Athens |
| Pericles | strong Athenian political leader |
| Alexander the Great | Greek war hero who created a GREAT empire |
| Greek legacies | drama - comedy and tragedy; sculpture; architecture - doric, ionic, corinthian columns; history; philosophy; and democracy |
