Transcript THIS PRESENT DAY COUNTRY IS LOCATED AT THE SOUTHERN

THIS PRESENT DAY
COUNTRY IS LOCATED AT
THE SOUTHERN END OF
THE BALKAN PENINSULA
GREECE
THREE-FOURTHS OF
GREECE’S LAND MASS IS
____________ WHICH
PROTECTED THE GREEKS
AGAINST INVADERS AND
WHICH PROHIBITED
GREECE FROM BECOMING
A UNITED NATION
MOUNTAINOUS
THE SEA EAST
OF GREECE
IS THE
THE SEA WEST
OF GREECE
IS THE
IONIAN SEA
THE SEA TO
THE SOUTH OF
GREECE IS THE
MEDITERRANEAN SEA
GREECE IS A LAND MASS
SURROUNDED ON THREE
SIDES BY WATER WHICH
IS CALLED A
PENINSULA
THE ISLAND LOCATED
SOUTHEAST OF GREECE
IS CALLED
CRETE
THE CAPITAL
CITY OF
CRETE IS
KNOSSOS
NAME THE FIRST
CIVILIZATION THAT
SETTLED ON THE ISLAND
OF CRETE
MINOAN CIVILIZATION
THE KING
OF CRETE
WAS
KING MINOS
A MAZE BENEATH MINO’S
PALACE WHERE THE
MINOTAUR LIVED
LABYRINTH
A MYTHICAL FIGURE
BODY OF A MAN
TEETH OF A LION
HEAD OF A BULL
MINOTAUR
A LEGENDARY OR
TRADITIONAL STORIES
THAT A SOCIETY USES TO
EXPLAIN AN EVENT
MYTH
WHEN THE WOMEN IN A
SOCIETY HEADS THE
FAMILY
MATRIARCHAL
THE HEAD GOD OF THE
PEOPLE OF CRETE
EARTH MOTHER
THIS GROUP MOVED INTO
GREECE FROM CENTRAL
ASIA
MYCENAEANS
THIS GROUP WAS LIVING
IN GREECE WHEN THE
MYCENAEANS ARRIVED
HELLENES
A CITY BUILT BY THE
MYCENAEANS
MYCENAE
THIS GROUP CONQUERED
THE MYCENAEANS
DORIANS
THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE
MOVED INTO GREECE
DURING THE DARK AGES
IONIANS
A PERIOD WHEN THERE IS
NO EDUCATIONOR
CULTURE IN A SOCIETY
THE DARK AGES
A SINGING
POET
BARD
THE WIFE OF A
MYCENAEAN KING WHO
WAS KIDNAPPED BY
PARIS
HELEN
MYCENAEAN KING WHO
BEAT THE TROJANS AND
WON THE TROJAN WAR
ODYSSEUS
A CITY ON ASIA MINOR
WHICH WAS THE SITE OF
THE TROJAN WAR
TROY
THE TROJAN PRINCE WHO
FELL IN LOVE WITH
HELEN OF TROY
PARIS
THE GREEK SETTLEMENT
IN WHICH TROY WAS
LOCATED
ILLIUM
AN EPIC POEM ABOUT THE
TROJAN WAR
“ILLIAD”
THE POET WHO WROTE
THE “ILLIAD”
HOMER
THIS WAS LEFT AT THE
GATES OF TROY AS A
TRIBUTE TO THE GREEKS
TROJAN HORSE
TO SURROUND A CITY IN
ORDER TO STARVE THE
PEOPLE OUT
SIEGE
THE EPIC HERO OF THE
TROJAN WAR
ACHILLES
THE EPIC STORY OF THE
GREEK KING ODYSSUES’
RETURN FROM TROY
“ODYSSEY”
THE BELIEF IN MANY
GODS IS CALLED
POLYTHEISM
KING OF THE GREEK GODS
ZEUS
GODESS OF LOVE AND
BEAUTY
APHRODITE
THE MESSENGER GOD
HERMES
THE GOD OF THE
UNDERWORLD
HADES
GOD OF WINE, FERTILITY
AND ECSTASY
DIONYSUS
GODDESS OF THE EARTH
HERA
GOD OF LIGHT, HEALING
AND POETRY
APOLLO
GOD OF
WAR
ARES
WHERE THE GODS LIVED
MOUNT OLYMPUS
A FESTIVAL TO
HONOR THE
GREEK GODS
OLYMPIC GAMES