Ancient Persia
An ancient Persian city built in 4395 BCE.
What is Susa?
The ancient civilization that first developed on islands in the Aegean Sea.
What is the Cycladic Civilization?
The sporting event launched in 776 BCE.
What are the Olympic Games?
The city where Greece finally won the Persian Wars.
What is Athens?
The great king who conquered Greece and expanded Macedon's territory.
Who is Philip II?
The visionary who founded Persia's official religion.
The ancient civilization that first developed on the island of Crete.
What is the Minoan Civilization?
The author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
An ancient Greek ship that contained 400 rowing men.
What is a quinquereme?
Who is Alexander the Great?
The great man who founded the Persian Empire.
Who is Cyrus the Great?
The great Minoan king who built the first navy and conquered the Cyclades.
Who is King Minos?
The army formation that made the Greeks almost unstoppable in war.
What is the phalanx?
The great conflict between Sparta and Athens that lasted almost thirty years.
The place where Alexander the Great died from a ten-day high fever.
What is Babylon?
The artifact which stated that all people in the Persian Empire could live in peace, as long as they got along and paid taxes.
What is the Cyrus Cylinder?
The civilization that led to the development of Greece.
Who are the Mycenaeans?
The Greek variant of ancient Mesopotamian city-states.
What is a polis?
The treaty devised to ensure peace between Sparta and Athens that failed in 6 years.
What is the Treaty of Nicias?
The general who took Alexander's place after his death as the ruler of all Macedonia.
Who is Cassander?
The battle where Persia was finally defeated by Greece.
What is the battle of Salamis?
The kickstart time period that led to the Greek Renaissance.
What are the Dark Ages?
The great king of Athens who divided the city into four social classes and abolished slavery.
Who is Solon?
The nation that brought the Classical Period to an end.
What is Macedon/ia?
The Macedonian officer who desecrated the Jewish Temple due to their celebration of his rumored death.
Who is Antiochus IV Epiphanes?