Mathematics
the measure of the outer border of a circle is
What is circumference?
A 50 year teacher and philosopher in Athens who was arrested and tried for corrupting the youth there and questioning the Gods is:
Who is Socrates?
Soldiers who fight on horseback
What is the cavalry?
The leader of Macedonia whose goal it was to unite all the Greek city-states
Who is Phillip of Macedonia?
This God was considered the chief of all Gods
Who is Zeus?
the branch of mathematics that shows the relationship of points, line, angles, surfaces and solids in three dimensional space is called
What is solid geometry?
a student of Socrates, he founded the Academy School of learning in Athens and wrote The Republic
Who is Plato?
A drama where the characters struggle to overcome problems, but fail
What is tragedy?
The son of Phillip who created an empire comprised of Greece, Egypt, Mesopotamia, a portion of northwest India and the Anatolia peninsula was
Who is Alexander the Great?
This priestess could talk to the Gods and see the future
Who is the Oracle?
the branch of mathematics that shows the relationship of points, lines, angles and surfaces of figures that are flat or level is called:
What is plane geometry?
This philosopher wrote over 200 works of science, government, and the planets.
Who is Aristotle?
A drama that tells a humorous story
What is a comedy?
An astronomer who proposed the theory that the sun was the center of the universe and that the Earth moved around the sun.
Who is Aristarchus?
This is the place where the Gods were thought to have lived
What is Mount Olympus?
The mathematician who wrote the book Elements and is considered "the father of geometry" is:
Who is Euclid?
Epicurus developed this philosophy that stresses that the goal in life is to find happiness and live simply
What is Epicureanism?
A story that teaches a lesson using talking animals
What is a fable?
The scientist who was in charge of the library at Alexandria and proposed that the Earth was round, then measured its circumference using sticks and the suns shadow
Who is Eratosthenes?
This is the name given to the period of time following the death of Alexander in which Greek culture spread to all his empire
What is the Hellenistic Era?
The mathematician/inventor who worked with solid geometry, figure out the value of Pi, and created catapults was:
Who is Archimedes?
This philosophy practiced by Stoics stresses the use of reasoning to live a good aand just life
What is Stoicism?
the custom of passing stories from one generation to the next by telling the stories out loud
What is oral tradition?
The "father of medicine" who devised the Hippocratic Oath and said there were natural causes for diseases
Who is Hippocrates?
This is the term given to the words and actions that are part of a religious ceremony that honors the Gods
What is a ritual?