Famous People
A giant with only one eye in the center of his forehead
Cyclops
How did the Barbarians get to Greece?
By ship
Who was allowed to compete in the Olympic games?
Men
Who became a great king of Persia?
Cyrus
Hespagus disobeyed King Astyges by
Giving his grandson to a shepard and not killing him
Greek god of the sea
Poseidon
What happened to the barbarians who invaded Greece?
They became civilized and learned to live like the Greeks
The Olympic games were held how often?
Four years
What troubled King Astyges of Persia?
A dream
The Persians though Cyrus was a great warrior and what type of king?
Fair
Greek warrior who fought in the Trojan War
Odysseus
We know more about the early Greeks than we know about the barbarians because they wrote things down using their own
alphabet
The Olympic games were held to honor who?
Zeus
What did King Astyges of Persia do with his grandson?
Ordered his chief advisor to kill him
Croesus had more what than anyone in the world?
Gold
a Greek poet who wrote down some of the old Greek stories
Homer
What kinds of crops did the Greeks learn to grow?
What is the long distance running event named after a Greek city called?
Marathon
The Babylonians and who finally defeated the Assyrians?
Medes
When Cyrus became king of Babylon, he allowed the Jews to?
Return to Palestine
According to Greek tradition what was wrong with Homer?
He was blind
For fun, the Greeks liked to
dance
The pentathlon was an athletic event in which the athlete had to compete in how many different events?
Five
The Persians were a tribe of what who lived at the edge of Media?
Shepards
Cyrus conquered many lands but he had still not conquered what country?
Greeced