Greek Culture
This athletic competition honors Zeus and is still held today.
What is the Olympics?
Tutored by this famous philosopher, Alexander learned to use logic at a young age.
Who is Aristotle?
This tactical military formation lined up hoplites in a rectangular shape, locking shields and holding spears.
What is a phalanx?
Sparta was known for their focus on this, rather than education like the Athenians.
What is the military?
The geography of Greece is characterized by these 2 geographical features.
What are the mountains and the seas?
Classical Greek painters typically painted scenes from the Iliad and The Odyssey, including their mythical gods and animals, as well as scenes of this.
What is war or battle?
Following Alexander's death, they divided up his Empire, breaking it into pieces.
Who are his three most ambitious generals?
This war brought all the Greek polis together to fight a common enemy...even Sparta and Athens joined together.
What is the Persian War?
The Spartan poli organized their government into this, where only a few people ruled based on their wealth and ability.
What is an oligarghy?
Greece is located on this peninsula, with water on three sides.
What is the Balkan peninsula?
This type of poetry is accompanied by a musical instrument and focuses on emotional themes.
What is lyrical poetry?
During the Hellenistic period, women gained more rights just as receiving an education and this.
What is owning property?
This is the show down of ancient Greece's two biggest polis, putting army might against naval power.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
Rather than join the Delian League with Athens, Sparta formed their own alliance known as this.
What is the Peloponnesian League?
The island of Crete off the coast of mainland Greece, was home to this fresco-painting civilization.
Who are the Minoans?
After writing over 100 plays, I wonder how this man feels being remember for "Oedipus the King", featuring a man who marries his mother.
Who is Sophocles?
Alexander's conquest brought about new cities, a booming commercial economy and the spread of this.
What is Greek or Hellenistic culture?
As leader of Athens, he introduced direct democracy and paid government officials more.
Who is Pericles?
In a display of self sacrifice, 300 Spartan soldiers stalled the Persians at this battle.
What is the Battle of Thermoplyae?
This empire comprised huge areas of the present day Middle East, including Turkey, Iraq and Iran...well before Alexander took over.
What is the Persian Empire?
His plays featured strong women, like "Madea".
Who is Eurpides?
The Hellenistic culture resulted from Alexander's conquest as a blend of these four cultures.
What are Greek, Egyptian, Persian and Indian cultures?
As they believed in many gods, the ancient Greeks' practiced this type of religion.
What is polytheism?
The Spartans did not worry about colonizing or growing their economy beyond agriculture. Rather, the sole focus of Spartan women was this.
What is to have strong Spartan children?
This mountainous pass was host to the self-sacrifice of 300 Spartans at the hands of the Persians.
What is Thermopylae or the Battle at Thermopylae?