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The Greek Peninsula juts out into this body of water.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
Ancient Greece did not have a great landscape for farming as it is covered by these.
What are mountains?
This man turned Macedonia into a powerful city-state and conquered all of Greece.
Who was Philip II?
Impregnable military formation utilized by Philip II and Alexander the great that had 16x16 rows.
What was the phalanx?
From 477 to 431 B.C., Athens experienced a growth in intellectual and artistic learning. This time period became known as the
What is the Golden Age?
The Ancient Greeks learned this primarily from the Phoenicians.
What is shipbuilding or the alphabet?
This was the style of government in Athens, Greece.
What is democracy?
What was the name of the other powerful Greek city-state early on besides Athens?
Who was Sparta?
This legendary Greek warrior demigod inspired Alexander the Great to try and follow in his footsteps.
Who was Achilles?
What brought Alexander the Great's reign to an end?
What is death by illness or some believe assassination?
This was the war that took place between Athens and Sparta.
What was the Peloponnesian War?
Greek historian or story teller credited with writing the "Iliad" (story of Trojan Wars) and "Odyssey."
Who was Homer?
Legend has it that during the Persian Wars, Pheidippides ran 26 miles to Athens to tell the message that the Greeks had defeated the much larger Persian force.
What is the Battle of Marathon?
This Greek Philosopher was condemned to death for corrupting the youth and was forced to drink hemlock poison.
Who was Socrates?
This was the common Greek view of the Macedonians.
What is uncivilized or barbaric?
The battle where a Greek force of 7,000 held off the Persian army of 180,000 for two days.
What was the Battle of Thermopylae?
Sturdy ships with battering rams in the front tipped with bronze used in battle.
What are Triremes?
This Ancient Greek philosopher taught Alexander the Great.
Who is Aristotle?
These were Greek foot soldiers.
What are hoplites?
What happened to Philip II that prevented him from being able to attack the Persian Empire?
What is he was stabbed to death?
How was Alexander treated when he entered Egypt?
What is he was welcomed with open arms and named pharaoh?
This most seriously weakened the Athenians during the Peloponnesian War.
What is a plague?
He was the student of Socrates.
Who was Plato?
Hero of Alexandria is credited with discovering this energy source, but it wasn't widely adopted due widespread use of forced labor to get jobs done.
What is steam power?
The blending of Egyptian, Persian, Greek, and Indian culture was known as this.
What is Hellenism?