Ancient Greece Enter Category Name to the Hellenistic Period
What is a piece of land surrounded on three sides by water called a?
peninsula
The chain of Greek islands is called an?
Archipelago
What was the name of the period that Alexander the Great changed the world spreading the Greek culture?
Hellenistic Period
What playwright in Athens won the first prize for best play? The name of the play was?
Euripides Media
What is the Socratic Method?
Ask questions to test the Hypotheses
The land in Greece is 80 percent?
Mountains
Little farmland meant that people had to fight for?
livable space
Ancient Greece was a collation of city-states known as?
Polis
What became the most popular form of entertainment in Greece?
the theater
Plato, creates the first institution of higher learning called?
the Academy
In the Aegean and Ionian Seas, approximately how many islands were there?
2000
What are the three Ancient Greece periods?
Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic
In the Classical Period, who did the Greeks fight in the battle wars of Marathon and Salamis?
The Persians
The wars between Sparta and Athens were called?
Who won?
The Peloponnesian Wars Sparta
Plato’s main three ideas were?
1. Think more, 2. Reform Society 3. Be careful of who you admire because they influence your life. Bad heroes give glamour to the flaws of a character.
What period in Ancient Greece saw the rise of city-states?
Archaic Period
What period did the Greeks begin to explore philosophy and theatre?
Archaic Period
What is the name of the playwright of "Oedipus Rex"?
Sophocles
When did the Hellenistic Period end?
When the Romans conquered and took control of Egypt.
The three Virtues of Aristotle are?
1. What makes people happy 2. What are we for? 3. What are friends for?
What period did the Greeks introduce democracy in Athens?
Classical Period
At the end of what Greek period did Alexander The Great rise to power?
Classical Period
The three great playwrights were?
Euripides, Aeschylus, and Sophocles.
The Parthenon is a former temple that was dedicated to?
the goddess Athena
Alexander the Great becomes king when his father, Philip of Macedon is?
assassinated