Famous People
He conquered the Persians in a long military campaign.
Who is Alexander the Great?
The Ancient Greek god of thunder.
Who is Zeus?
Your social studies teacher.
Who is Janardana?
A battle against the Persians and Xerxes.
What is the battle of Thermopylae?
The age after Alexander the Great.
What is the Hellenistic Age?
She was a scholar at the Library of Alexandria.
Who is Hypatia?
The goddess of grain.
Who is Persephone?
An agreement where both sides give up something they want.
A navel battle where the Athenian navy defeated the Persians with triremes.
What is the battle of Salamis?
The three kinds of Greek columns.
What are Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian columns?
He was the Spartan king who sacrificed himself to hold off the Persians.
A Disney film was made about this child of Zeus.
Who is Hercules?
Someone who takes control of the government by force and rules alone.
What is a tyrant?
What is Sparta?
The two kinds of Ancient Greek drama.
What are comedy and tragedy?
He built the Parthenon.
Who is Pericles?
A horse with wings.
What is a pegasus?
The name for a Greek city state.
What is a Polis?
The battle where the Macedonians conquered the Greeks.
What is the Battle of Chaeronea?
What are Aesop's Fables?
Who came up with the structure of the atom?
Who is Democritus?
A monster that turns people to stone.
What is a medusa?
Soldiers for hire that fought for both Greece and Persia.
What are mercenaries?
The name of the formation that the Macedonians used that led them to victory.
What is a phalanx?
A famous ancient wonder in Jordan, influenced by Greek architecture.
What is Petra?