Athens/Sparta
Geography
Persian Wars
Hellenistic Era
Literature/Art/Architecture
100
I am a city-state focused on military and strength.
What is Sparta
100
This sea is located to the east of Greece.
What is the Aegean Sea
100
The Persian Wars were fought between these two powers.
What are the Persian Empire and Greek city-states.
100
The King of Macedonia who helped to spread Greek culture through the extent of the now fallen Persian Empire.
Who is Alexander the Great
100
This poet wrote the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer
200
I am a city-state focused on government and democracy
What is Athens
200
Two seas: one sea is located to the west of Greece and the other to the south
What is the Ionian Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
200
This is the military formation ancient Greece is so famous for.
What is a phalanx
200
Another word for absorbing (ie. absorbing Greek ideas)
What is assimilation
200
These are the three most famous philosophers of ancient Greece, and probably in the world.
Who are Socrates, Plato and Aristotle
300
The city-state that regarded women as equal to men.
What is Sparta
300
The peninsula coming off of the western coast of Greece.
What is Peloponnesus
300
This battle resulted in a Persian victory and was fought in a small mountain pass.
What is the Battle of Thermopylae
300
The school of philosophy that urged people to calmly accept whatever life brought and taught that women were morally equal to men.
What is Stoicism
300
Greek architecture sought to convey this in a perfect sense.
What is balance.
400
The year democracy is thought to have began in Athens.
What is 510B.C.
400
The mountains running through mainland Greece.
What are the Pindus Mountains
400
The group of elite Persian soldiers who were said to never die.
What are the Immortals.
400
The theory discovered in the Hellenistic Era that said the solar system revolved around the sun.
What is the theory of a heliocentric solar system
400
Many Greek plays were these two genres.
What are tragedy and comedy
500
Participation in Athenian government was limited to this group of people.
What is an adult male citizen.
500
The mountains and various islands of Greece created barriers to this.
What is unity.
500
This was the reason the Greek city-states won the Battle of Marathon
What is What is Persia loading half it's army for a sneak attack on Athens.
500
During the Hellenistic Era, this new state emerged as a major power and replaced Greece as the dominant power in teh Mediterranean world.
What is Rome.
500
This person is known as the Father of History and focused these two ideas in writing his histories.
Who is Herodotus and what is reason and logic.
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