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Let’s Get Greeked Out! Jeopardy Vocabulary

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A traditional story about gods, goddesses or heroes.

The Olympic games were held for his honor

The war between the Greeks and Persians

Greek city-states were governed by groups of noblemen

A good or service brought in from another country or region

A group of Athenian Society made up of people born outside Athens

Developed a form of direct democracy

An epic about the Trojan War

They were a city-state that valued the warrior

All citizens directly participate in the Gov’t and decision making process A Greek ruler who seized power by force, but who rules with the people’s support

5 people elected to make sure the Spartan Kings stayed within the law

Improved Athens’s economy but clashed with the nobles

The tension sparred between Athens and Sparta

Under Pericles they became a major power

This was based on an idea that people can and should rule themselves

Poets and historians recited these about great heroes, deeds and events

Painting completed on wet plastered walls

Created Athens’s first written law code

The Athenians although outnumbered defeated the Persians

They were considered the lowest class in The Athenian society

A slave who taught manners to young boys.

A good or service sold to another country or region

Set up a court system with citizen jurors

The Spartan 300 that were all killed because they refused to surrender

Native people from Peloponnesus who were made into slaves by the invaders from the north The heavily armed Greek Infantry

A government ruled by Kings

Deals with moral duty and knowing good from bad

A place where Greeks believed that the gods spoke through their priests and priestesses. The Greek word for city-state

Warned Athenians to leave the city and escape

Crushed the Greek revolts in Asia Minor

A hill where most public buildings in a city-state were built

Citizens elected people to govern for them

Men who opened schools for older boys

The period in which Athens grew to its greatest power and wealth

The War between Troy and the Mycenaens

A market place found in a polis

This was an alliance of citystates formed to protect them

Athenian males were taught the art of public speaking known as

Which city-state does the word abduction come from