Chapter 10 Greece Test (5th grade)
test over chapter 10 Greece 5th grade
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- Myceneans
- group of early Greeks remembered for leaving the Trojan horse outside the city of Troy
- Mediterranean Sea
- one of the bodies of water that surrounds Greece
- Sparta
- first city-state to become powerful where philosophers and foreigners were not welcome
- Greek language
- language of most of the civilized world during the Hellenistic Age
- Daniel
- the book of the Bible that prophesied that Alexander the Great's life would be short
- Philip II
- father of alexander the Great who was able to conquer and unite most of Greece
- agora
- Greek marketplace
- Archimedes
- one of the greatest Greek scientists
- Zeus
- Greek god honored by the Olympic games
- Homer
- a blind singing poet of ancient Greece
- helots
- did all the work in Athens
- Phonecians
- the Greeks borrowed their alphabet and added vowels
- Aesop
- a freed greek slave who wrote fables
- theater
- largest gathering place in a Greek city
- phalanx
- large, group of foot soldiers, armed with shields and spears and trained to move together
- bard
- a singing poet found in ancient Greece
- four
- the number of kingdoms Alexanders empire was divided into after his death
- Balkan Peninsula
- Greece is located on this peninsula
- India
- Alexander the Great's empire extended all the way to this country
- acropolis
- this is the religious center of a Greek city
- Gulf of Corinth
- body of water that almost cuts Greece in half
- Alexandria
- name given to the many cities that Alexander the Great built in conquered lands
- 776 B.C.
- year that the first Olympic game was held
- Athens
- most famous city-state that was the greatest cultural center in ancient Greece
- art, science, religion,philosophy
- several things that Greek culture influenced during the Hellenistic Age
- gymnasium
- place in a Greek city where men practiced their favorite sport
- stadium
- a long Greek racing track
- Socrates
- Greek philosopher concerned with the best way to live
- democracy
- when citizens of a country take an active part in government, the word means people and rule
- city-states
- Greece's independent cities each having its own government