Early Greeks
Athletic contests held every four years to honor their gods.
What are the Olympics?
There form of government in which the power is in the hands of the people (they can vote)
What is a democracy?
The thing that Spartans cared about most.
What is the Military
Alexander the Great's father's name was...
Who is King Phillip II of Macedonia?
The rare offspring of a griffin and a horse?
What is a hippogriff?
Who won the Persian War?
Greece
What was the Peloponnesian War?
Conflict between rival city-states of Greece
Home of the Greek gods
What is Mount Olympus?
What did Persephone eat 2 of, detaining her from the upperworld for half the year?
Who is Herodotus
The well-traveled man that recorded the Persian War.
Who was the Athenian leader with a great strategy, that eventually succumbed to the plague caused by his own plans?
Pericles
What is a Greek city-state called?
What is a polis/poleis?
The goddess that came out of Zeus's head as a full grown adult.
Who is Athena?
Spartan age to leave home to train for war
What is 7 years old?
Answer must include Gaia... Titans... Cronus... Zeus...
Who was Darius the Great?
Emperor of the Persians.
What was the group that had brought the city-states of Greece into an uneasy military alliance that many members began to resent over time?
The Delian League
The capital of Greece.
What is Athens?
What is a centaur and who is the most famous one?
A centaur is half horse half human.
Chiron is the most famous we learned about in class.
What was the final battle of the Persian War we learned about that Persia never recovered from?
The Battle at Platea
Why did Athens lose the War?
A fortified hilltop where the Parthenon sits.
What is an acropolis?
Who were the three great Athenian philosophers?
Who are Socrates, Plato and Aristotle?
The god of war that Spartans worshiped?
Who is Ares?
Why did Alexander the Great not decompose for 6 days after he died?
He did not die yet; he most likely had GBS.
Greed, hatred, pain, disease, hunger, poverty, war, and death are what?
What is missing from this list?
Things that came out of Pandora's box.
Hope is missing.
Tell me the quick story of Leonidas and the 300...
A local resident named Ephialtes betrayed his people and showed the Persian army a secret pathway that would allow them to get around the Greek army.
When King Leonidas learned that the Persians were going to get them, he dismissed the bulk of the Greek army and remained to guard the rear of the army with 300 Spartans.
In addition to the 300 Spartans, historians also believe that 700 Thespians and 400 Thebans stayed to fight the Persians. This small band of fighters delayed the Persian advance, allowing the remaining Greek army to regroup and continue on to fight and defeat the Persians at the Battle of Salamis and the Battle of Platea.
They are known as heroic to this day.
Describe Alcibiades. Why was he chosen by Athens to lead them? What happened?
Alcibiades was everything the Athenians were looking for. He was rich. He was handsome. He was smart, having studied under Socrates. Alcibiades could work up a crowd like a pro. HOWEVER, he was untrustworthy, betraying them multiple times until they lost trust completely and killed him .