Important Figures
The goddess of love
Who is Aphrodite?
This is the name for the series of wars between Persia and Greece.
What are the Persian Wars?
He invented the water screw which brings water from a lower level to a higher one. He was a great Greek Scientist.
Who was Archimedes?
This is a group of warriors who stood close together like a great human tank.
What is a phalanx?
Ancient Greece was the birthplace of this important governmental system that is used in the US today.
What is democracy?
He believed that people should never stop looking for knowledge. He wanted people to question their beliefs, to test them with logic.
Who was Socrates?
The god of war
Who is Ares?
This ruler of Persia, was most interested in making Persia strong. He was the ruler at the start of the Persian wars.
Who was Darius?
This is an official agreement to work together and to be allies.
What is an alliance?
This city-state believed that everyone had a role for the military. Children trained from a young age to become soldiers in this city-state.
What is Sparta?
Because traveling by land in Greece was difficult, the Greeks became what?
Expert ship builders
He was a student of Socrates.
Who was Plato?
The goddess of the hunt
What caused the Persian War?
King Darius was angry at the Greeks for helping the other Greeks fight back his rule.
What does democracy mean?
"rule of the people".
In this city-state women could own land and they had rights to run the household and received physical training.
What is Sparta?
In Athens, most of the boys from poor families had to do what?
They had to become farmers and they grew food for the wealthy.
He was a student of Plato and he wanted people to not be greedy, to live lives of moderation and balance. He believed that needed reason and clear ordered thinking.
Who was Aristotle?
Who is said to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey? There is no proof that he really existed and it's more likely that he represents all of the traveling story tellers throughout early times.
Who is Homer?
What caused the Peloponnesian War to begin?
Greek cities feared Athens would control all of Greece.
What is an acropolis and what is an agora?
Cyrus army had a powerful cavalry. What is a cavalry?
A unit of soldiers on horseback.
Who said to have "written" the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Homer
He was interested in mathematics and especially geometry.
Who was Euclid?
A Greek hero has been portrayed in many films
Who is Hercules?
Athens and Sparta
This is a culture's stories about their gods and heroes that explained how the world works.
What is mythology?
He was Darius's son.
Who was Xerxes I or Xerxes?
Why did the early Greeks travel mostly by sea?
The mountains terrain was difficult to cross.
He was the greatest Greek doctor and he wanted to figure out what caused diseases.
Who was Hippocrates?
Who was the most famous Greek doctor?
Who is Hippocrates?
They won the Peloponnesian War.
Who are the Spartans?
They were two of the best tragedy writers in Ancient Greece.
Who were Aeschylus and Sophocles?
This is the invasion that began the series of wars between Persia and Greece known as the Persian Wars.
What is the Battle of Marathon?
Aristotle believed that the key to this was living life in a moderate way (the opposite of two extremes).
What is happiness?
Greek mythology helped people with this.
What is to understand the world they lived in.