Alexander The Great
He was the King of Macedonia and Alexander The Great's father.
Who was King Phillip II?
The belief and worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
A first-hand record or original document that provides direct evidence about a topic or event.
What is a primary source?
This Emperor of Persia invaded Greece in 490 B.C. starting the first Persian-Greek War.
The date and battle that Alexander The Great first beat the Persian Army after invading the Persian Empire.
What happened on November 3, 333 B.C. at the Battle of Issus?
She was Alexander The Great's mother who claimed Achilles as her ancestor.
Who was Queen Olympias?
The belief and worship of one god.
What is monotheism?
A document, image, object, or text that was created after the events it describes, and by someone who did not directly experience them.
What is a secondary source?
This battle ended the First Persian War.
What was the Battle of Marathon?
These games were played in order to honor the head of the Greek gods, Zeus.
What were the Olympic Games?
He was one of Alexander's most trusted generals who took over Egypt after Alexander died.
Who was King Ptolemy I?
What is Christianity, Islam, and Judaism?
The Ancient Roman City that the mosaic of Alexander at the Battle of Issus was taken from.
What is Pompeii, Italy?
This Persian Emperor invaded Greece in 480 B.C. with over 100,000 men and a great fleet, to get revenge against the Greeks for defeating his father ten years earlier.
Who was Emperor Xerxes?
This philosophy founded by Zeno, believes that divine reason governs the universe. People need to live in harmony with one another and nature.
What is Stoicism?
Alexander's great, brave war-horse, on which we rode into many battles on. He tamed this great horse at age 12.
Who was Bacephalus?
An example of a polytheistic religion.
What are the 12 Greek Gods of Olympus?
This was the battle where 300 Spartans held off thousands and thousands of invading Persians, led by King Leonidas, this battle gave the other Greeks, such as Athens, time to group together to fight or evacuate.
What was The Battle of Thermopylae?
Born about 484 B.C., this Greek is called the first historian, or The Father of History.
Who was Herodotus?
This Greek was one of the greatest philosophers of all time, one of Plato's students. He was hired by King Philip II to tutor Alexander.
Who was Aristotle?
This word means "Greek-like."
What is Hellenistic?
In 404 B.C. the polis of Athens was defeated by the polis of Sparta ending this war.
What was the Peloponnesian War?
This giant naval battle had the Greek fleet, lead by Athens, defeat the Persians and cost them to loose the second Persian-Greek War.
What was the Battle of Salamis?
The philosopher Plato wrote this book, which demonstrates how bad a democracy can be and argues that a wise king makes the best type of government.
What is The Republic?
He was the emperor of the Persian Empire who Alexander the Great defeated and took the empire from.
Who was Emperor Darius III?
The the location and year that Alexander The Great died.
What was Babylon in 323 B.C.?
He was one of the greatest philosopher who ever lived. In Athens he wandered around the polis asking the citizens questions to get them to think more deeply about all subjects.
Who was Socrates?
This was an alliance of Greek polis, lead by Athens after the Persian Wars. It was a great naval power.
What was The Delian League?
The Greek scientists first made observations of nature and the natural world and made these logical guesses, to explain their observations.
What are hypotheses?
This was the city founded by Alexander the Great on the coast of the Mediterranean, on the edge of the Nile Delta, which became the capital of King Ptolemy's kingdom.
What was Alexandria?
Who was The Delphic Oracle?
He was a philosopher in Athens, he was Socrates' closest follower, who wrote down Socrates' teachings. He was the teacher of Aristotle, the tutor of Alexander The Great. He founded a school of philosophy called The Academy.
This was an alliance of Greek polis, lead by Sparta, who had a giant army and fought against Athens to control the area of Greece.
What was The Peloponnesian League?
Greek mathematicians were the first to discover some of the basic concepts of all of mathematics. This theory is needed in Geometry today when working with right-angled triangles.
What is The Pythagorean Theorem?