Olives | | ____ covered 3/4ths of Ancient Greece. |
Mycenaeans | | Mycenaean ____ formed the core of Greek religious practice, art, and literature. |
MountOlympus | | Traditional Greek stories about their gods. |
zeus | | What the Greeks built in order to have adequate grazing area and farmland. |
legends | | Sea trade was important because the Greeks lacked ____ _____. |
heinrichschliemann | | The mythical home of the Greek gods. |
trojanhorse | | Narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds. |
epics | | Greatest Greek storyteller. Legend says he was blind. |
population | | Greece had few suitable waterways for this. |
myths | | Goddess of wisdom. |
Hector | | It took 7 days to travel from Sparta to ______. |
Irrigation | | The Greek heroic ideal of virtue and excellence. |
Hera | | We built a elegant civilization on Crete. |
Athens | | Only 20% of the soil of Greece. |
Transportation | | Greek capital city named in honor of the goddess of wisdom. |
writing | | The peninsula where Greece is located. |
MINOANS | | Mycenae could withstand attack because it was ___. |
dorians | | Greatest Greek hero of the Trojan War. |
CRETE | | What the temperatures were like in ancient Greece. |
Athena | | The island of the Minoans. |
Balkan | | This great Trojan soldier's wife begged him not to fight Achilles. |
trojanwar | | We were Eurasians who came to Greece around 2000 BC. |
cyclops | | Homer's story about the Trojan War. |
homer | | Ruler of the Greek gods. |
Fortified | | Their diet was based on grains, grapes, and ____. |
Odyssey | | The reason for the warning "beware of Greeks bearing gifts". |
NATURALRESOURCES | | Found evidence of the Trojan War in Turkey. |
colonies | | Homer's story about the Greek's ten-year journey home after the Trojan War. |
Arete | | Polyphemus was one of these one-eyed monsters. |
Olympia | | Mycenaeans adapted this Minoan system of communication. |
Arable | | A German archaeologist discovered evidence in 1870 that this was fought between Greeks and Trojans. |
Iliad | | Wife of Zeus. |
moderate | | A new group of traders who moved into war-torn Mycenae. They apparently did not know how to write. |
Achilles | | This was difficult because of the geography of Greece. |
Mountains | | Greece could never support a large one. |