Greek life
Athens and Sparta
Geography and "stuff"
Famous Greeks
Hellenistic Kingdom
100
A city-state.
What is a polis?
100
This group would go out and conquer for new lands rather than colonize.
Who were the Spartans?
100
Island southeast of Greece.
What is Crete?
100
Wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
100
Derived from a Greek word meaning "to imitate Greeks".
What is Hellenistic?
200
Fortified, main gathering place on top of a hill in a polis.
What is an acropolis?
200
In Athens, the people participated in making government decisions themselves through mass meetings.
What is direct democracy?
200
The Minoan Civilization.
What is the name of one of the early civilizations of Crete?
200
Interested in analyzing and classifying things based on observation and investigation.
Who was Aristotle?
200
Developed important work in the area of the geometry of spheres and cylinders along with the value of pi.
Who was Archimedes?
300
Greek drama, presented in a trilogy built around a common theme.
What is a tragedy?
300
A military state known for their army.
What is Sparta?
300
The Ionian Sea, Aegean Sea and the Mediterranean Sea.
What seas surround Greece?
300
Believed in a higher world of eternal, unchanging Forms and in an ideal state with 3 basic groups.
Who was Plato?
300
Macedonia, Syria, Pergamum and Egypt.
What are the 4 Hellenistic kingdoms (that emerged after Alexander the Great's death)?
400
The highest mountain in Greece where 12 chief gods and goddesses were thought to live.
What is Mount Olympus?
400
Great battle between Athens and Sparta.
What is the Great Peloponnesian War?
400
A culture of powerful monarchies and warrior people written about by Homer.
Who were the Mycenae?
400
Believed that all real knowledge is within each person and they just needed to use critical examination to bring it out.
Who was Socrates?
400
Two philosophies that developed in the Hellenistic Kingdom.
What is Epicureanism and Stoicism?
500
Organized system of thought. This word comes from a Greek word that means "love of wisdom".
What is philosophy?
500
The Athenians developed the practice of banning someone for 10 years if they were considered harmful to the city.
What is ostracism?
500
The mountains and the sea.
What geographical features played a significant role in the development of Greek history?
500
Athenian general considered to be a great historian of the ancient world.
Who was Thucydides?
500
Took control of the Persian Empire in 331 B.C.
Who was Alexander the Great?
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