Ancient Greece to the Hellenistic Period
What is a piece of land surrounded on three sides by water?____________________.
peninsula
Greece also has a chain of islands called an? ___________________________.
Archipelago
What was the name of the period during which Alexander the Great changed the world, spreading Greek culture? ____________________ period.
Hellenistic
The playwright Euripides won the first prize for? ___________________in?___________________.
Best play / Athens
What is the Socratic Method? ____________________ to test the? _____________________________.
Ask questions to test the Hypotheses
The land in Greece is 80 percent? __________________.
Mountains
Little farmland meant that people in Greece 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 established the first institution of higher learning, known as? _________________________.
the Academy.
In the Aegean and Ionian Seas, approximately how many islands were there? _____________________.
2000
What are the three periods of Ancient Greece? __________________and __________________ and _____________________________________.
Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic
In the Classical Period, who did the Greeks fight in the battles of Marathon and Salamis?
The Persians
The wars between Sparta and Athens were called?____________________________________ Who won? _________________________.
The Peloponnesian Wars Sparta
Plato’s three main ideas were? 1. __________ ______________2. ________________________
3. ___________________________ Bad heroes give glamour to the flaws of a character.
1. Think more, 2. Reform Society 3. Be careful of who you admire because they influence your life.
What period in Ancient Greece saw the rise of city-states? __________________________.
Archaic Period
During what period did the Greeks begin to explore philosophy and theatre? _______________________.
Archaic Period
The name of the playwright of "Oedipus Rex"? _____________________________________.
Sophocles
Who conquered the Greeks at the end of the Hellenistic Period? _______________________ What territory did they conquer? _________________________.
Romans /Egypt?
What are the three Virtues of Aristotle? 1. ____________________________________. 2. _________________________________________ . 3. _____________________________________.
1. What makes people happy 2. What are we for? 3. What are friends for?
During what period did the Greeks introduce democracy in Athens? _________________________.
Classical Period
What is the period when 1. Athens and Sparta fought in the Peloponnesian Wars 2. the Persian Wars. Alexander the Great was born and died. During the? __________________________________________
Classical Period
Who were Euripides, Aeschylus, and Sophocles? __________________________________________.
The three great Greek playwrights
The Parthenon is a former temple dedicated to? _______________________________
the goddess Athena
Alexander the Great became king when his father, Philip of Macedon, was?
assassinated