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The god of forges and fire who made the weapons the other gods used
Who is Hephaestus?
According to this method, constant questioning was the way to arrive at understanding and truth
Who is the Socratic Method?
These people were slaves who were forced to farm for the Spartans
Who were the helots?
This war was a fight for control of the Greek mainland
What is the Peloponnesian War?
Government of one, usually a king
What is monarchy?
He was the ruler of the most extensive empire in the world by that time
Who was Alexander the Great?
The goddess of the home. Women prayed to her for the protection of their home and families.
Who is Hestia?
His book, The Republic, expressed his views on government and justice
Who was Plato?
Under his rule, democracy developed
Who was Pericles?
He was the king of the Persians who attacked the Ionians in retaliation for their rebellion, starting the Perisna Wars
Who was Darius I?
Government of the few, usually the rich
What is oligarchy?
The "Father of Medicine"
Who was Hippocrates?
Poseidon was the god of this
What is the sea?
This group believed in a well-rounded education, teaching history, reading, writing, public speaking, science, and ethics.
Who were the Sophists?
This city-state was concerned mainly with military training and conquest.
What is Sparta?
After this battle, Pheidippides ran to Athens to announce the victory and get reinforcements before he died from exhaustion from his 26 mile run.
What is Marathon?
Government of the people, where citizens fully participate in making decisions
What is democracy?
His historical writings were based on interviews of people who lived through the events
Who was Thucydides?
This was Hermes' job
What is messenger?
Socrates was tried, convicted, and sentenced to death by poison for this crime.
What is corrupting the youth?
This is the birthplace of democracy
What is Athens?
At this battle, 300 Spartans held off the Persian army so the other Greeks could rally reinforcements
What is the Battle of Thermopyolae?
A ruler who takes power by force and is usually brutal and oppressive
What is a tyrant?
Poet who wrote epics about the Trojan War, most famously The Iliad and The Odyssey
Who was Homer?
The goddess of wisdom
Who is Athena?
He began the school, Lyceum, and developed the Scientific Method
Who was Aristotle?
To be this in a city-state, a man must have been born in that city
What is a citizen?
He defeated the Greeks after the Peloponnesian War and ended the independence of the city-states
Who was Philip of Macedon?
A government in which citizens elect representatives to vote for their needs and speak for them
What is a Republic?
Playwright who penned over 100 plays including Oedipus Rex and Antigone
Who was Sophocles?
Hera was the goddess of this
What is marriage?
Plato began this school, which lasted for over 900 years
What is The Academy?
Although this group was afforded a great deal of freedom, they were still not considered to be equal participants in Sparta
Who were women?
After this war, Athens became the dominant force on the Greek mainland
What was the Persian War?
A group of states or countries that are unified under a single ruler
What is an empire?
Mathematician who developed the theorem a2+b2=c2
Who was Pythagoras?