A Persian war battle that took place in a city 26 miles from Athens. A young runner named Pheidippides ran to Athens to give the news that the Greeks had won and then died of exhaustion.
What is the battle at Marathon?
100
A religious festival originally held in honor of Zeus, this athletic competition continues to this day.
What are the Olympics?
100
Blind poet who wrote the epic poems, The Iliad and the Odyssey
Who is Homer?
100
This mythical creature lived in a labyrinth.
What is the Minotaur?
200
Greek word for city.
What is polis?
200
A powerful empire from the east that threatened the Greek city-states.
What is the Persian Empire?
200
A system of government where people elect representatives, modelled after the Greek system where citizens participated directly in government.
What is representative democracy?
200
Democratic leader of Athens
Who is Pericles?
200
The goddess of wisdom and war.
Who is Athena?
300
High hill where Greek cities were built.
What is the acropolis?
300
A war between Athens and Sparta lasting 26 years.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
300
People, like Socrates who believed in the power of the human mind to think, reason and understand life.
What is a philosopher?
300
The Father of History, he famously said, "Egypt is the gift of the Nile."
Who is Herodotus?
300
The ancient Greek explanation for the changing of the seasons can be found in the story of ___________ __________.
What is Demeter and Persephone? or The Origin of the Seasons?
400
Rule of the people
What is democracy?
400
An alliance of Greek city-states protected by Athens
What is the Delian League?
400
The achievements of the ancient Greeks are numerous and important. These Great Greeks were remembered in a famous Renaissance painting by Raphael located in the Vatican.
What is the School of Athens?
400
Aristophanes, Sophocles and Aeschylus are famous Greek _____________________.
What is playwrights?
400
The Greeks worshipped and feared the god of the sea, Poseidon. What does this tell you about Greek civilization?
What is Greeks were surrounded by the sea and relied on it for travel and trade?
500
Greek like
What is hellenistic?
500
An alliance of city-states protected by Sparta.
What is the Peloponnesian League?
500
Alexander the Great spread Greek culture throughout the lands he conquered. He named many of the cities Alexanderia, after himself and built ___________________
What is Greek temples and theaters?
500
Father of Medicine, doctors today are required to recite an oath he wrote outlining the ethical responsibilities of doctors
Who is Hippocrates?
500
What are two of the obstacles Odysseus encountered on his long journey home from the Trojan War?
What is the cyclops, Sirens, Scylla, Charybdis, Penelope's suites, Calypso