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100
This society overpowered the Minoan society.
What is the Mycenaen Society?
100
This cult excluded men.
What is the cult of Demeter?
100
This poet was charged by critics for homosexual activity.
Who is Sappho?
100
After the Persian Wars, the poleis created this alliance.
What is the Delian League?
100
This was best known of the panhellenic festivals.
What are the Olympics games?
200
This society devised a script known as Linear A.
What is the Minoan Society?
200
This god promoted wisdom and justice.
Who is Apollo?
200
Tradition holds that this man was not a physically attractive man.
Who is Socrates?
200
Greek merchants traded these products (two) around the Mediterranean.
What is olives and grapes?
200
This man apparently wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
300
In this society, citizens were equal in status, in theory.
What is Sparta?
300
Women were the prominent devotees of this cult.
What is the cult of Dionysus?
300
This theory was the cornerstone of Plato's thought.
What is the theory of Forms or Ideas?
300
This ruler was assassinated before he could invade Persia.
Who is King Philip II?
300
This play was written by Euripides about one Dionysian season.
What is The Bacchae?
400
Attica was the region around this polis.
What is Athens?
400
This Egyptian cult became popular because it promised salvation for those who led honorable lives.
What is the cult of Osiris?
400
These Hellenistic philosophers identified pleasure as the greatest good.
Who are the Epicureans?
400
This Hellenistic empire was the wealthiest.
What is the Ptolemaic Empire?
400
This slave worked first as a porter and then at a clerk at a prominent Athenian bank.
Who is Pasion?
500
This kingdom recognized kings, but semi autonomous clans controlled political affairs.
What is the Kingdom of Macedon?
500
King Menander, ruler of Bactria, converted to this religion.
What is Buddhism?
500
This man was called "the master of those who know" by a Christian scholastic philosopher of medieval Europe.
Who is Aristotle?
500
Excavations at this Hellenistic colony show that Bactria spoke the Greek language.
What is Ai Khanum?
500
This island was home to a volcano that proved most destructive to the Minoan Society in 1628 BCE?
What is Thera?
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