Vocabulary 1
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Potpourri
Important Scientists
Places
Philosophers
100
A body of land that is surrounded by water on three sides 
What is a peninsula?
100
A settlement in a new territory with strong ties to its homeland
What is colony?
100
A Greek city-state or a tiny independent country
What is a polis?
100
An open area market and a place to debate
What is an agora?
100
Someone who takes power by force and rules with total authority
What is a tyrant?
100
He believed everything could be explained in math and numbers
Who is Pythagoras?
100
This is where the Gods and Goddesses were supposed to live.
Where is Mount Olympus?
100
This philosopher believed in absolute truth
Who is Socrates/
200
Traditional stories about gods, goddesses and heroes
What is a myth?
200
Long poem that tells a story about heroic deeds
What is an epic?
200
 A type of drama that has a happy ending
What is a comedy?
200
Love of wisdom 
What is philosophy?
200
He wrote The Illiad andThe Odyssey>
Who was Homer?
200
He established physics. Designed the lever and pulley.
Who is Archimedes?
200
This is the plain where the Persian army was defeated by the Greeks.
Where was Marathon?
200
This philosopher wanted philosopher kings to head the government.
Who is Plato?
300
A story told by actors who pretend to be characters in the story
What is a drama?
300
Enslaved neighbors - captive workers
What is a helot?
300
All citizens help run the government.
What is a democracy?
300
What a person leaves behind when he/she dies.
What is a legacy?
300
Greek thinker who believed the human mind could understand everything.
What is a philosopher?
300
He believed the Earth is round.
Who is Eraosthenes?
300
This Battle took place on a narrow strip of water.
Where is Salamis?
300
He developed the Socratic method
Who was Socrates?
400
In government where only a FEW people have the power.
What is oligarchy?
400
In this type of drama, a person struggles to overcome difficulties but fails.
What is a tragedy?
400
This scientist studies stars, planets and heavenly bodies.
What is an astronomer?
400
This type of geometry shows how points, lines, angles and surfaces relate to one another.
What is plane geometry?
400
Known as the GREATEST historian, wrote History of the Peloponnesian Wars.
Who is Thucydides?
400
Father of Medicine
Who is Hippocrates?
400
The narrow pass through the mountains where Greeks fought the Persians.
Where is Thermopylae?
400
He believed in and taught the "golden mean"
Who is Aristotle?
500
This type of government requires EVERY citizen to vote on all laws and policies.
What is Direct Democracy?
500
Refers to a time when Greek language and ideas spread to non- Greek speaking people of SW Asia.
What is the Hellenistic Era?
500
This is the study of ball-like shapes - spheres, tubes and cylinders.
What is solid geometry?
500
Provinces
What are satrapies?
500
Son of Darius - reorganized kingdom into 20 satrapies
Who is Darius?
500
Father of Geometry.
Who is Euclid?
500
This was the battle where the Greeks CRUSHED the Persian army and made them retreat.
Where is Plataea?
500
This philosopher was also a sculptor
Who is  Socrates?
600
Believed that the Earth revolved around the sun.
Who  is Aristarchus?
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