Geography
Nearly 75% of Greece is covered in these.
What are Mountains?
These people are known for their labyrinth palace and their frescoes.
What are the Minoans?
By helping the Ionians, this city-state caused the Persians to attack Greece.
What is Athens?
He was known for his work in medicine, and wrote an oath doctors still take today.
Who is Hippocrates?
Thousands of years after the first man ran it, this race is still 26.2 miles long.
What is a marathon?
In The Odyssey, the hero travels back and forth from Troy across this sea.
The Aegean Sea?
The Minoans lived on this island.
What is Crete?
The Athenians won this battle and sent a runner to tell Athens the news of “victory”
What is the Battle of Marathon?
Under his rule, Athens found itself in a golden age after the Persian War.
Who is Pericles?
To ensure safe travel for athletes, a sacred truce was declared across Greece during this quadrennial festival.
What is the Olympics?
This kingdom lies to the north of Greece.
What is Macedonia?
These people built the large wooden horse to trick the people of Troy.
Who are the Mycenaeans?
Working together, the Greeks sank the Persian fleet here.
Where is Salamis?
a2 + b2 = c2
Who is Pythagoras?
Like the Athenians, we use this group to try legal cases, but ours is much smaller.
What is a jury?
The Greeks believed gods and goddesses lived on this mountain.
What is Mount Olympus?
These people invaded Greece using iron weapons and brought on the Dark Age.
Who are the Dorians?
After the Persian War, Athens formed this group of city-states.
What is the Delian League?
Showed the need to avoid bias in writing of the Peloponnesian war.
Who is Thucydides?
Wrote The Elements; The Father of Geometry.
Who is Euclid?
This is the term for a piece of land mostly (3 sides) surrounded by water.
What is a peninsula?
Those refugees who fled the invasion of the Dorians settled in this area across from Greece.
What is Ionia (coast of Asia Minor)?
Feeling threatened by Athens’ rise to power, the Spartans formed this alliance.
What is the Peloponnesian League?
Alexander the Great’s mother.
Who is Olympias?
Is history difficult? The “father of history” may be to blame.
Who is Herodotus?