The leader of Athens during the Golden Age of Greece. He wanted Athens to be the educational site of Greece.
Who is Pericles?
On the Mediterranean sea coast
Where is Greece?
The famous war that the Mycenaeans fought in over Helen of Troy.
What is the Trojan War?
The place where 300 Spartans held off the Persian army led by Xerxes.
Where is Thermopylae?
A famous Macedonian ruler who spread Greek culture around Asia, Africa, and Europe.
Who is Alexander the Great?
People who studied truth and knowledge while searching for logical reasons in the world.
Philosophers?
The philosopher who tutored Alexander the Great.
Who is Aristotle?
The island of Crete is the location of this early Greece civilization.
Where was the Minoan civilization located?
The author of the Iliad and the Odyssey. He wrote about the Trojan War in his epic poems.
Who is Homer?
A sea battle that ended the Persian War.
What is the Battle of Salamis?
The Greek city-state that was known for its impressive navy.
What is Athens?
The type of government that contains a king and/or queen.
The military king who led the 300 spartans in the Battle of Thermopylae.
Who is Leonidas?
The largest Peninsula in Greece.
What is the Peloponnesus?
The name the ancient Greeks called themselves.
Who are the Hellenes?
The Greek city-state that led the Delian League in the Peloponnesian War.
What is Athens?
The Greek city-state that led the Peloponnesian League in the Peloponnesian War.
What is Sparta?
The famous building constructed as a temple for the goddess Athena.
What is the Parthenon?
The first historian. He documented a lot about the ancient Greeks.
Who is Herodotus?
What is the Knossos palace?
What is an acropolis?
The reason why Athens was forced to surrender to the Spartans during the Peloponnesian War.
What is the Great Plague?
The Greek city-state that trained their children to cheat and steal without getting caught.
What is Sparta?
A dangerous sport that was very popular in the Minoan culture.
What is bull-leaping?
The runner who ran around 25 miles from the Marathon beaches to Athens to announce a battle victory before dropping dead.
Who is Pheidippides?
The group of people that were considered to be the strongest and mightiest empire before fighting the Greeks.
Who were the Persians?
A government ruled by the people.
What is a Democracy?
The place Alexander the Great was from.
What is Macedonia?
An early Greek civilization that is known to be peaceful from their artwork, paintings, and lack of security defense forces.
Who are the Minoans?
A fierce warrior who was the most famous ruler of Mycenae.
Who is Agamemnon?