Vocab
Polis stands for this in Greek:
What is a city-state?
Greek columns were divided into three different shapes:
What were:
Doric
Ionic
Corinthian?
This war featured the famous Trojan Horse as the Mycenaeans defeated the citizens of Troy:
What was the Trojan War?
This Greek used logic and reason to study the natural world & was the personal teacher of Alexander the Great:
Who was Aristotle?
This philosophy placed emphasis on reason, self-discipline, emotional control, and personal morality:
What is stoicism?
A body of Greek troops standing or moving in close formation:
What is a phalanx
This was Homer:
Who was a blind Greek poet who wrote the Illiad & the Odyssey?
This Greek City-State was known for their warrior-like culture and fought the Persian Army during the Persian War initially with just 300 men:
What was Sparta?
He was the Macedonian leader who conquered an empire stretching from Greece to India & encouraged the spread of Greek culture throughout his empire:
Who was Alexander the Great?
This is rational thinking:
What is logic?
This is a direct democracy:
What is a type of government where people vote on everything?
She is the Greek goddess of war, wisdom, and skill:
Who is Athena?
The Greek Civil War was also known as:
What was the Peloponnesian War?
This Greek developed a code of ethics for medical practitioners:
Who was Hippocrates?
Oligarchy means this:
What is a rule by the few?
Plays that told stories of human suffering that usually ended in disaster:
What are tragedies?
These were the three main bodies of the Athenian government headed by the Archon:
What were the Assembly, The Council of 500 & Complex Court Systems?
This is a tyrant:
Who is someone who seizes power by force?
This Athenian statesman who instituted direct democracy in Athens, increased participation in government, provided salaries for government employees, and encouraged the cultural development of Athens:
Who was Pericles?
This is the Greek god of the sky and the father of all Greek gods:
Who is Zeus?
This is Cynicism:
What is the philosophy that rejects the ideas of pleasure, wealth, and social responsibility, lives according to nature, & withdraw from society?
Before the Mycenaeans, this was first Greek-like civilization:
Who were the Minoans?
This war featured the famous Battle of the Marathon where the Greeks were outnumbered by their opponent 9-1:
What was the Persian War?
This Greek was known as the, “first historian” or “father of history”, & wrote the Persian Wars:
Who was Herodotus?
This war-time alliance was between much of the Greek City-States against Persia:
What was the Delian League?