| A | B |
|---|
| Peninsula | Surrounded by water on three sides |
| Polytheism | Believe in many gods |
| Homer | Wrote the Iliad and Odyssey |
| Zeus | Lord of the Gods |
| Hera | Goddess of marriage and wife of Zeus |
| Aphrodite | Goddess of love |
| Athena | Goddess of wisdom |
| Polis | Greek city-state |
| Monarchy | Ruling power held by one person who inherits power through family succession |
| Oligarchy | Ruling power held by a a few wealthy individuals |
| Tyranny | Ruling power held by one person who seizes power illegally |
| Democracy | Ruling power in the hands of all the people |
| Aristocracy | Ruling power held by a few wealthy aristocrats who inherited their power |
| Draco | Created written laws with severe punishments |
| Solon | He improved the legal system, expanded the Assembly, and outlawed debt slavery |
| Pericles | Athenian leader who created a direct democracy |
| Parthenon | Temple to Athena on the acropolis |
| Acropolis | High point in a Greek polis |
| Socrates | Corrupted the youth |
| Plato | Student of Socrates who wrote The Republic |
| Aristotle | He tutored Alexander the Great |
| Herodotus | Father of History |
| Thucydides | Historian who wrote about the Peloponnesian War |
| Philip | King of Macedonia and father of Alexander the Great |
| Pythagoras | He calculated the relationship between the sides of a right triangle |
| Euclid | He wrote The Elements (Geometry) |
| Archimedes | Invented the lever and pulley and the screw |
| Hippocrates | He established an ethical standard for doctors |
| Alexandria | This city was the "heart of the Hellenistic world" |
| Bosporus Strait | Narrow passage of water connecting the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea |
| Peloponnesus | Southern portion of Greece (Sparta located there) |
| Macedonia | Northern portion of Greece (Athens located there) |
| Apollo | God of sunlight and the sun |
| Artemis | Goddess of hunting and the moon |
| Athens | Had a democratic form of government |
| Sparta | Militaristic city-state |
| Balkan Peninsula | Location of Greece |
| Colonies | Provided crops to mainland Greece |
| Battle of Marathon | Greeks defeated Persians here |
| Doric | Simplest type of Greek column |
| Hellenic | Greek culture |
| Delian League | Trading alliance led by Athens |
| Peloponnesian League | Trading alliance led by Sparta |
| Ionic | Medium or simple type of Greek column |
| Coriinthian | Most complex type of Greek column |
