| Term | Definition |
| Balkan | Peninsula where Greece is located |
| Myceneans | Responsible for leaving the Trojan Horse outside the city of Troy |
| vowel | What the Greeks added to the Phoenicians' alphabet |
| Homer | Bard |
| Illiad and the Odyssey | Poems Homer wrote |
| Philosophers | Pythagoras, Democritus, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle |
| Archimedes | Greates Greek scientist |
| City-state | An independent city with its own government |
| Agora | The market place |
| Acropolis | Place used for worship |
| Theater | Largest gathering place use for plays |
| gymnasium | Used for sports |
| Stadium | Used for races |
| democracy | The idea that the citizens of a country should take an active part in the government of their country |