What are the names of the two Greek mathematicians who:
a) invented the world's first math class
b) wrote the world's first math text
a) Pythagoras
b) Euclid
100
The place dedicated to the god of drama where Athenians watched the world's first plays.
What is the Theater of Dionysus?
100
The name of Alexander the Great's murdered father.
Who is Phillip?
100
What are latitude and longitude?
The lines on the earth that criss-cross it in a grid to divide it up into areas.
100
This was the Athenian political leader who inspired the Greeks to rebuild Athens using money that belonged to other Greeks.
Who is Pericles?
200
The name of the scientist/philosopher who listed all the animals and tried to put them into groups
Who is Aristotle?
200
The marketplace where the Greeks met to shop and share the news of the day, including discuss questions of philosophy.
What is the Agora?
200
The types of cities that Alexander planned to build in the places he conquered.
What are "Greek style" cities?
200
Define legacy
The gifts from the past that one culture leaves for another (usually ideas, inventions, or works of art/architecture)
200
This is the famously ugly philosopher who used to wander the Agora in bare feet asking people questions about the meaning of life until they admitted they didn't know it.
Who is Socrates?
300
Explain what a frieze and metope is.
The frieze is the ribbon of bas-relief sculpture on a temple and the metopes are the individual sculptures on the frieze
300
The temple dedicated to Athena on top of the rocky hill known as the Acropolis.
What is the Parthenon?
300
This is who Alexander often pretended he was in order to convince people to allow him to be in charge.
What is a god or the son of a god?
300
A word that means something that tells the future.
What is oracle?
300
Who was the god who told the future at the oracle of Delphi?
Who is Apollo?
400
What is a pediment?
The pediment is the triangle on the front of a temple
400
The games sacred to Athena and Zeus where the Athenians competed with the best athletes in Athens.
What is the Panathenaic Games?
400
These are examples of what "adopting foreign ways" means.
What are wearing their clothes, eating their food, using their greetings, speaking their language?
400
A word that means the covered porch with columns
Stoa
400
This was the famous sculptor famous for creating the marble sculptures on the Parthenon and jailed for embezzling gold from the statue of Athena
Who is Phidias?
500
What is one of the important ways the Greeks influenced our language?
They invented our alphabet (with some changes)
They invented many of our word parts
They invented plays and novels and history books
500
The place where the Temple of Apollo was and the Greeks thought was the center of the Earth
What is the Temple or Oracle of Delphi?
500
This is how long Alexander's empire lasted after his death.
What is "less than ten years"?
500
The hard white stone that Greeks used in almost all their public buildings
What is marble?
500
What was the name of Alexander the Great's teacher?