Important People
200: This man was the first to destroy Persia and eventually conquered “the world.”
Alexander the Great
200: What was the name of the temple to Athena built on the acropolis in Athens?
Parthenon
200: What is the term used to describe the study of basic questions of reality and human existence? It could also be translated to mean the study/love of wisdom.
Philosophy
200: What civilization helped the Spartans cut off Athenian supplies during the Peloponnesian War, which eventually led to Spartan victory?
Persians
200: Alexander was able to defeat what empire that no one else could?
Persia
400: This man is credited with Greece’s, and more specifically, Athens’s advancements during the 400s BC.
Pericles
400: What man is known as the “father of history?” He gets this title as the first true historian of the Western world.
Herodotus
400: Name in order, the Philosophers of Ancient Greece. For example, Blank taught blank who taught blank.
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
400: What was the name of the group in Athens after the Greco-Persian Wars who thought Sparta is the threat, not Persia
War Hawks
400: Need the name and number. Who was Alexander’s father? (Need name and number)
Philip II
600: Who wrote the book the Republic in which he argued how to create a perfect society.
Plato
600: What man believed that you could explain everything through mathematics AND that a-squared plus b-squared = c-squared?
Pythagoras
600: The 11 virtues Aristotle claims a person needs to be happy are better known as the what?
Golden Mean
600: Corinth was afraid of Athenian expansion economically when they threatened the Corinthian trade routes where?
Italy / Sicily
600: Alexander was deemed “fit to rule more than Macedon” when he tamed his untamable horse named what?
Bucephalus
800: He is the best-known historian of the Peloponnesian Wars
Thucydides
800: What were Greece's favorite types of plays?
Tragedies
800: According to Socrates, what is true wisdom?
Knowledge of how much you do not know
800: What two things specifically was Pericles using Delian League money for that caused other city-states to be upset with Athens?
Paying officeholders
Making Athens beautiful - Parthenon
800: What famous Roman leader admired Alexander so much that we attribute a lot of the legend behind Alexander to their admiration of him?
Pompey
1000: Name two famous Greek sculptors and what sculptures they are known for.
Myron: discus thrower
Phidias: Zeus and Athena statues
1000: Name all four ideals of Greek art.
Glorified human beings
Symbolized pride in city-states
Beliefs in harmony, balance, order, and moderation
Combination of beauty and usefulness
1000: Name 3 of the 4 “Big Ideas” of Plato.
Think More, Know Yourself
Let your lover change you
Beauty is an ideal we chase
Reform society - Republic
1000: Fill in the following blank attacked blank, so blank declares war on blank then blank joins then the war begins.
Thebes attacked Plataea, so Athens declared war on Thebes, then Sparta joined.
1000: Name the three Hellenistic Kingdoms and what former empires or countries they controlled?
Antigonids (Greece)
Seleucids (Persia)
Ptolemies (Egypt)