| A | B |
|---|
| Aegean Sea | north of eastern Mediterranean Sea and is where Ancient Greece was located |
| Attica and Peloponnesus | 2 major peninsulas of Greece |
| Crete and Rhodes | 2 largest Greek islands |
| Mount Olympus | highest peak in Greece |
| sheep and goats | raised for wool, meat, and milk |
| Black Sea | merchants got fish here |
| Cyprus | merchants got timber here |
| Nile Delta | merchants got grain here |
| Italian peninsula | merchants got meat here |
| Phoenicians | competed with Greeks for colonial lands |
| cuneiform | a system of writing that Greeks got from Phoenicians |
| polis | a Greek city-state |
| Sparta | a military, war-like city-state |
| helots | prisoners who became slaves to Spartans |
| babies | if they were weak, they were left to die on mountainsides |
| military training for boys | this started at age 7, when boys left home |
| women | could not vote |
| Agora | was central marketplace of the city |
| Acropolis | a hilltop fortress in Athens where the Parthenon was located |
| Parthenon | temple to Athena |
| Herodotus | wrote about the Persians landing at Marathon--he's called the "Father of History" |
| Oligarchy | rule by a few people |
| assembly | the basic lawmaking body of Athens |
| Pericles | a ruler of Athens who invented the jury system |
| polytheism | people believed in many gods |
| Homer | a blind poet who wrote the epic poems "Illiad" and "Odyssey" |
| Aeschylus | wrote tragedies--performed only in mornings |
| Aristophanes | wrote comedies--performed later in the day |
| Socrates | Greek philosopher who said "know thyself"--was made to drink poison hemlock |
| Plato | student of Socrates |
| Alexander the Great | son of the Macedonian king, Philip II |
| Aristotle | Greek philosopher who taught Alexander the Great |
