Early Greeks
Athens
Sparta
Alexander the Great
Legacy of Greece
100
Any landform surrounded on three sides by water.
What is a peninsula?
100
There form of democracy practiced in Athens.
What is direct democracy?
100
The wars Sparta helped Athens win .
What were the Persian Wars?
100
The people Alexander the Great had to conquer to create the greatest empire in the ancient world.
Who were the Persians?
100
Combined culture of the Greeks, Egyptians, Persians, and Indians.
What is Helenistic culture?
200
An example of one of Homer's epic poems.
What is The Illian or The Odyssey?
200
The cause of death of one third of Athens' population during the Pelopponesian War.
What was the plague?
200
A Spartan slave.
What is a helot?
200
Alexander spread this cultural mix of customs and knowledge from Greece, Egypt, Persia, and India.
What is Hellenistic culture?
200
The study of wisdom.
What is philosophy?
300
The long distance race named after a city/battle site famous in the Persian Wars.
What is a marathon?
300
Who were the three great Athenian philosophers?
Who are Socrates, Plato and Aristotle?
300
The most important goal of Spartan government.
What is a a strong army/military?
300
Most common name of a city founded by Alexander.
What is Alexandria?
300
Acting and plays.
What is drama?
400
The beautiful temple built in Athens to honor the goddess of wisdom.
What is the Parthenon?
400
The main goal of an Athenian boy's education.
What is preparing a good citizen?
400
A government controlled by a few.
What is an oligarchy?
400
Alexander's tutor.
Who is Aristotle?
400
Greek architectural styles still used today.
What are Greek columns?
500
A fortified hilltop at the center of a Greek city-state.
What is an acropolis?
500
The strongest branch of the military in Athens.
What is the navy?
500
The age at which these Spartans began living in barracks.
What are 7-year-old boys?
500
The war that weakened Greece so Alexander could conquer it.
What is the Pelopponesian War?
500
The well-known Greek who developed geometry.
Who is Euclid?
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