Blind Bard
Homer
Fortified city on a hill
acropolis
Persian King who watched navy lose at Battle of Salamis.
Xerxes
Aristotle
The reformer
Solon
Father of medicine
Hippocrates
marketplace
agora
Conquered the known world
Alexander the Great
Taught by asking questions
Socrates
Led the rebuilding of Athens
Pericles
Sentenced to death for the actions of his student
Socrates
Government where people have a say by voting
popular democracy
Spartan General who temporarily held back the Persians in Battle of Thermopylae
Leonidas
Started The Academy
Plato
Greek mathematician
Pythagorus
Sculptor who created 2 huge statues of Athena
Phidias
Time in Greek history where little is known
Dark Ages
Persian leader who failed to conquer Greece at the Battle of Marathon.
Darius I
Famous orator during the Golden Age
Pericles
Greek dramatus who wrote Antigone
Sophocles
Greece's most famous runner messenger
Pheidipides
2 civilizations that pre-dated Greece
Minoan and Mycenaean
Father of Alexander
Phillip
In this city, there were 2 kings to keep eachother from gaining too much power.
Sparta
Greek who drew accurate maps of Europe
Eratosthenes