Section 1 - Early Greek Civilization
Religion, Philosophy, and the Arts
Daily Life in Athens
Sparta and Athens
The Spread of Greek Culture
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The major landform of Greece.
What are mountains?
100
The goal of this was to present images of human perfection in an orderly way.
What is Greek art?
100
Typically, private homes in Athens had what?
What is a courtyard?
100
The age when Spartan boys began training for the military.
What is age 7?
100
After he was assassinated, his son became king at age 20 and created a vast empire for Macedonia.
Who is King Philip?
200
According to myth, Greece conquered Troy with the help of this.
What is the Trojan Horse?
200
This person taught the youth to ask questions. He was tried in court for "corrupting the youth" and sentenced to exile or death.
Who is Socrates?
200
In Athens, men went here to discuss politics, philosophy, and gossip. It was the "center of public life".
What is the Agora?
200
This city-state valued learning and the arts.
What is Athens?
200
Macedonian king who conquered an extensive area, including Persia, Egypt, and lands beyond the Indus River to the east. He never lost a battle.
Who is Alexander the Great?
300
The Iliad and the Odyssey, two epics about the Trojan War, were written by this person.
Who is Homer?
300
This person was Plato's student and was considered the leading authority on many subjects (philosophy, politics, mathematics, etc.) for over 2000 years.
Who was Aristotle?
300
Since Greeks were uncomfortable owning other Greeks, many slaves in Greece were this.
What are foreigners?
300
This is what the Spartan government concentrated all of its efforts on creating.
What are brave and skillful warriors?
300
During the Hellenistic period, there were important achievements in these two areas.
What are mathematics and science?
400
This Athenian leader introduced laws, which helped Athens become a leader in democracy.
Who is Solon?
400
Greeks believed ____________ and ___________ had human forms, many human characteristics, were perfect in their human forms, had great power, and were immortal.
What are gods and goddesses?
400
In ancient Greece, the city-states came together every four years for an Olympian festival and games to honor this person.
Who is Zeus?
400
This was a conflict between Sparta and Athens that lasted 27 years.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
400
Greek scientist who developed geometry.
Who is Euclid?
500
In order to be considered this in Athens, you had to be a man and have an Athenian mother and father.
What is a citizen?
500
A temple built to worship the goddess Athena.
What is the Parthenon?
500
Typically, Athenians ate little meat because there was little space to raise cattle. Instead, dinner consisted of these items.
What are fish, vegetables, fruit, cheese, and cakes sweetened with honey?
500
This is a battlefield about 25 miles north of Athens where the Athenians fought the Persians, and won.
What is the plain of Marathon?
500
Greek scientist who calculated the distance around the Earth.
Who is Eratosthenes?
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