Philosophers & Scientists
This philosopher grew dissatisfied with the sophists and began searching for absolutes.
Socrates
This ancient leader, who dominated the known world from Greece to India, died at the age of 32.
Alexander the Great
Site of the first major naval battle in history
Salamis
This term refers to characters that differed only from the gods in that they were mortal and slightly less powerful.
Heroes
This ancient event was first held in 776 BC
The Olympics
This ancient scientist systematized the theorems of plane geometry
Euclid
This ancient poet was known for refining the old stories and myths of the gods.
Homer
This is the name given to the mainland region of ancient Greece.
Attica
This is the term for a hilltop fortress of ancient Greece.
Acropolis
This often commemorated battle began in the summer of 490BC.
Marathon
This Philosopher founded a school known as Stoicism
Zeno
This newly throned Persian king crushed the Ionian revolt and demanded that the mainland Greeks submit to him.
Darius I
This is the ancient Greek term for city.
Polis
Rule by the best
Aristocracy
His conquests lasted from 334BC until his death in 323BC.
Alexander the Great
This philosopher was inspired by his mentor to write 30-plus works of philosophy.
Plato
This aristocrat brought democracy to its fullest measure in ancient Athens.
Pericles
Ancient kingdom north of Greece.
Macedonia
This is the term given to the everyday, common language of the people throughout the Mediterranean world from 300 BC until the AD 400s.
Koine
Series of Wars from 490 tp 479 BC.
Greco-Persian Wars
This ancient Greek made important contributions to mathematics, engineering, and physics.
Archimedes
Legendary Greek writer who, according to Herodotus, was a freed slave living in the sixth century BC.
Aesop
300 Spartans held off the entire Persian army here.
Thermopylae
Oligarchy
This Age lasted from 323BC until approximately 30 BC.
Hellenistic Age
This ancient philosopher's followers came to emphasize indulgence of one's bodily appetites and the physical pleasures of life.
Epicurus
They were the ancient slaves of Sparta.
Helots
Alexander begins his conquest of the Persian Empire by crossing this body of water.
The Hellespont
This term refers to ultimate foundational truths
Absolutes
Troy
This man summed up the humanistic way of thinking in Greece when he said, "Man is the measure of all things."
Protagoras
This ancient Athenian archon created a law code that was so severe that his name became synonymous with being merciless.
Draco
This region of ancient Greece covers the southern peninsula
Peloponnesus
The alliance of Sparta with Corinth, Megara, and other cities
The Peloponnesian League
The Classical Age of Greece, also known by this name, lasted from the 700s BC until the Macedonians conquered Greece in 338BC.
Hellenic Age
This ancient Greek geographer and historian left behind a 17-volume Geography describing all parts of the known world.
Strabo
He was the first tyrant of Athens.
Peisistratus
The battle here was the final defeat of the Persians and a turning point in world history.
Plataea
This temple was dedicated to Athena, the goddess of Athens
Parthenon
This series of wars lasted from 431 to 404 BC.
The Peloponnesian War
This ancient Greek developed a theory that all matter is composed of individual atoms.
Democritus
This Father of Medicine concluded that disease results from rationally explainable causes.
Hippocrates
This decisive battle resulted in the empire being divided among four generals who declared themselves kings.
A term that describes the process of a quorum of citizens banishing a person who is considered to be dangerous to the state.
Ostracism
This culture thrived on the island of Crete between 2000 and 11 BC.
Minoans