Early Greece
The terrain of Greece can be described this way.
What is Mountainous, rugged?
The Persian wars were fought between these two sides:
What are the Greek City-States and the Persian Empire?
Pericles used the money from the Delian League to create:
What is the Parthenon?
The father of Alexander the Great led an invasion and conquered this territory. (Give the name and the land he conquered).
Who is Philip II of Macedon and the Greek City-states?
Choose one to answer:
1. The name of the founder of medicine and greatest physician of all Ancient Greece.
2. This style of government from Athens that influenced many modern countries today.
1. Who is Hippocrates?
2. What is democracy?
What are City-States?
Name one of the battles in which the Athenians defeated the Persians
What is Marathon, Salamis?
This city-state rose up in opposition to fight against Athens after Athens had abused their new power.
What is Sparta? Bonus: The name of their league was:
What is fighting and conquering the Persian Empire?
This is the theorem developed by Pythagoras to discover lengths of right triangles.
What is the Pythagorean theorem? Bonus: State the equation.
This early Greek civilization set up their home on the Island of Crete.
Who are the Minoans?
The battle where 300 Spartans fought bravely until the last man, holding off the Persian advance.
True or False: Athens won the Peloponnesian War.
This famous philosopher tutored Alexander the Great.
Who is Aristotle?
This blind Greek author and historian wrote two famous epic poems.
(Give the author's name and one of the poems).
Who is Homer? (The Iliad, The Odyssey)
This early Greek civilization was the first to speak the language known as "Greek".
Who are the Myceneans?
Athens became the head of this alliance of the Greek city-states after the Persian Wars.
What is the Delian League?
What is vulnerable to invasion?
(Give empire name, civilization in Africa, name of river)
What is the Persian Empire, Egypt and the Indus River?
Name the three orders of columns and describe their features.
What is Doric(plain, no column base), Ionic(swirled scrolls and a column base) and Corinthian(decorative and rare)?
This is the type of building where the Greeks piled dirt on top of layers of brick to create a tomb.
What is a corbeled dome?
Even though they were outnumbered, the Athenians won the battle of Marathon by this tactic:
What is attacking while the Persians were loading their ships?
This is the battle formation of Greek hoplites.
What is a phalanx?
What is a fever and separate kingdoms?