Early People
The island the Minoan civilization was located on.
What is Crete?
A government in which a king or queen exercises central power.
What is a monarchy?
The powerful empire that the Greeks defeated in 449 BCE.
What is Persian?
The philosopher who developed a method in which series of questions are posed that challenge answers in order to study issues and problems.
Who is Socrates?
The name of Alexander the Great's father.
Who is Phillip (of Macedonia)?
The group of people who conquered the Minoans.
Who are the Mycenaeans?
The reason ancient Greeks created small city-states instead of a large, united empire.
What is geography (mountains and water)?
Athens enjoyed a golden age from 500-300 BCE under the leadership of this general.
Who is Pericles?
The philosopher who thought that reason was the highest good and was the tutor of Alexander the Great.
Who is Aristotle?
The Greek mathematician who developed a theorem to calculate the relationship between the sides of a triangle.
Who is Pythagoras?
The archaeologist who uncovered the Palace of Knossos in 1900.
Who is (Sir) Arthur Evans?
A government in which power is in the hands of a small, wealthy elite.
What is an oligarchy?
The name of the war in which Sparta was victorious over Athens.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
The name of the temple that was built between 447-438 BCE on the Acropolis in Athens.
What is the Parthenon?
The place Alexander the Great died of a sudden fever, at the age of 32, while planning his next battle campaign.
Where is India?
The two epics written by Homer.
What are the Iliad and the Odyssey?
The democratic group in Athens that suggested laws and supervised the government.
What is the Council of 500?
The name of the Turkish immigrant who was the partner of Pericles.
Who is Aspasia?
The historian, called the “Father of History,” who stressed the importance of research.
Who is Herodotus?
The Greek thinker who studied illnesses and cures and set ethical standards for medical care.
Who is Hippocrates?
The king of Sparta whose wife was kidnapped.
Who is Menelaus?
The name for the conquered people that Sparta turned into slaves.
What are helots?
The historian who call Pericles “the first citizen of Athens.”
Who is Thucydides?
The Greek playwright who wrote comedies--humorous plays that mocked people or customs.
Who is Aristophanes?
The philosopher who founded Stoicism, which urged people to accept calmly whatever life brought.
Who is Zeno?