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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Greek city-state | Polis |
| Greek people called themseleves... | Hellenes |
| First 5 letters of Greek alphabet in order | Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon |
| Most frequently used item of clothing | A chiton |
| Which polis had a near-perfert location that ensured its success as a great seaport and commercial trade center? | Corinth |
| Which polis had a thriving textile industy, colonized all over the eastern Mediterranean, and founded Byzantium at the entrance of the Black Sea? | Megara |
| Which polis was where democracy flourished and sculptors, mathmetician, philosophers, playwrights, and common citizens lived in freedom and participated in state decisions? | Athens |
| Which polis had a poor climate and locatioin, but became reowned for its musicians, poets, sculptors, and open-air theaters? | Argos |
| Which city-state had a military tradition of great bravery and human physical endurance, but to attain its goals harshly trained its boys in "boot camps" from the age of seven? | Sparta |
| Monotheistic | Belief in one god |
| Polytheistic | Belief in many gods |
| What do we call and ancient Greek preistess who claimed to see the future? | An oracle |
| Famous sayings that all Greeks tried to live by | "Know thyself" |
| location of 12 major greek gods and goddesses | Mt. Olympus |
| Ruling god on Mt.Olympus | Zeus |
| arete | Personal excellence |
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