This is a group of warriors who stand close together in a square.
What is a phalanx?
100
This philosopher taught men by asking questions.
Who is Socrates?
100
This device is still used today by farmers. It brings water from lower levels to higher levels.
What is a water screw?
100
This battle was the first battle in a series of wars between Persia and Greece that historians call the Persian Wars. The battle is remembered specifically for the famous 26.1 mile run.
What is the Battle of Marathon?
100
He is the son of Phillip the II and became king of Macedonia.
Who is Alexander the Great?
200
This is an agreement between two or more to work together.
What is an alliance?
200
He was a student of Socrates. He created a school called teh Academy and wrote a book called The Republic.
Who is Plato?
200
This is the considered the most impressive building in Greece. It was built to honor the goddess Athena.
What is the Parthenon?
200
This battle took place in a narrow mountain pass. 1400 Spartans held off the Persians for three days before a Greek traitor showed the Persians an alternate way into Greece.
What is the Battle of Thermopylae?
200
Alexander built new cities modeled on Greek cities, built theaters and temples like those in Greece, and encouraged Greeks to move to these new cities.
What is how he Alexander helped spread Greek culture?
300
This a piece of land surrounded by water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
300
This philosopher taught that people should live lives of moderation based on reason. He made great advances in logic.
Who is Aristotle?
300
Greeks created many new types of writing including two different kinds of drama.
What are tragedies and comedies?
300
This was a war between Athens and Sparta. It threatened to tear all of Greece apart.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
300
This was the name he gave to many of the cities he founded.
What is Alexandria?
400
These are short stories that teach the reader lessons about life or give advice on how to live.
What are fables?
400
This Greek was a mathematician. He was interested in geometry.
Who is Euclid?
400
The teachings of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are the basis of this study of the meaning of life.
What is philosophy?
400
This battle was fought on the seas between the Athenian Navy and the Persian Navy. The Athenian boats easily sank many of the Persian ships.
What is the Battle of Salamis?
400
Upon this event, three Generals divided the empire among themselves, but within 300 years the entire empire had conquered by Rome.
What is when Alexander died?
500
This means Greek-like.
What is Hellenistic?
500
He was a great Greek doctor. He is most well known for his ideas about how doctors should behave.
Who is Hippocrates?
500
This is a political rule by all of the people governed. It was first developed in Athens.
What is democracy?
500
After the Persian Wars, Athens formed an alliance and many of the Greek city-states in southern Greece also formed an alliance.
What are the Delian League and the Peloponnesian League?
500
Asia Minor, Egypt, and Persian Empire were all part of this.