Part One
What do Epicureanism and Stoicism have in common?
The goal of life is happiness.
Herodotus wrote
a) the History of the Persian Wars
b) Antigone
c) Book of the Dead
a) the History of the Persian Wars
Why did Alexander the Great empire fall apart?
a) Generals fighting over power
b) Alexander the Great’s death
c) all of the above
c) all of the above
_____________________: a Greek play that ends with a happy ending.
Comedy
Taught that happiness came from reason and doing one’s duty.
Stoics
Epicureanism and Stoicism are both
a)Ways of making friends
b)goals
c) Greek philosophies
c) Greek philosophies.
Philip II defeated the Greeks at the Battle of
a) Greece
b) Chaeronea
c) Troy
b) Chaeronea
Which of the following is NOT an epic?
a) Iliad
b) Fables
c) Odyssey
b) Fables
Wrote the history of the Peloponnesian war because he was there.
Thucydides
Wrote plays that poked fun at politicians and encouraged the audience to think.
Aristophanes
Who freed the Greek cities in Asia Minor from Persian rule?
a)Demosthenes
b)Alexander the Great
c) Euclid
b) Alexander the Great
Who was sentenced to death for his teachings?
a) Plato
b) Archimedes
c) Socrates
c) Socrates
______________________ are people who spoke for gods and goddesses, often in riddles.
Oracles
A commander and king who began to spread Greek ideas into non-greek cities
Alexander the Great
A time when Greek culture spread throughout the non-Greek world.
Hellenistic Era
Philip II got some Greek cities to join him by ____ them.
a) conquering
b) bribing
c) all of these
c) all of these
Aristarchus was an astronomer who taught that the sun was
a)the chariot of Apollo.
b)the center of the universe.
c)collapsing.
b)the center of the universe.
______________________ was a slave who was known for his fables.
Aesop
Greece thought they were inferior.
Macedonia
“The father of history” wrote the history of the Persian war
Herodotus
This Macedonian king loved Greek culture and planned to conquer Persia but failed.
a) Alexander the Great
b) Philip II
c) Aeschylus
b) Philip II
Whose armies conquered the land as far east as modern Pakistan?
a) Ramses II
b) Philip II
c) Alexander the Great
c) Alexander the Great
“Is it better to follow orders or do what is right?”-______________________
Sophocles
Created way to measure triangles &thought universe followed the same rules as music & numbers.
Pythagoras
Studied how points lines, angles, an lanes relate one another and plane geometry
Euclid