Geography & Trade
The body of water that allowed Greece to trade with Egypt.
What is the Mediterranean?
The earliest known empire of Greece.
What is the Minoan Empire?
The city-state that is the capital of modern day Greece.
What is Athens?
A state-owned slave in Sparta.
What is a helot?
He challenged people to use critical thinking skills to discover great meanings about themselves.
Who was Socrates?
The most famous example of Greek architecture.
What is the Parthenon?
The name given to many new cities founded by Alexander the Great.
What is Alexandria?
The type of land formations that made up smaller city-states of Greece.
What are islands?
The empire that actually held back Greek progress.
What is the Dorian Empire?
The city-state where the only occupation for men is to be a warrior.
What is Sparta?
A group of people who decided if someone on trial is guilty or not guilty.
What is a jury?
The philosopher who rejected democracy after it condemned his teacher to death.
Who was Plato?
An annual event that has all of the Greek city-states put aside their differences to enter into friendly competition.
What is the Olympics?
The country where Alexander's empire stops in the east.
What is India?
The main export of Greece.
What is olive oil?
The Greek Empire noted for its involvement in the Trojan War.
What is the Mycenean Empire?
He is considered to be the greatest leader that Athens ever had.
Who was Pericles?
Solon outlawed this form of financial service during his time as ruler of Athens.
What is debt slavery?
He was the tutor to the young Alexander the Great.
Who was Aristotle?
These Greek creations would show people in lifelike form and balance.
What are statues?
The pledge taken by doctors to do no unnecessary harm to their patients.
What is the Hippocratic Oath?
The body of water that separates Greece from Persia.
What is the Aegean Sea?
The Minoan Empire was based on this and not on conquest.
What is trade?
An alliance formed by several Greek city-states after the Persian Wars for self-defense.
What is the Delian League?
A legislative body on Athens politics whose members are chosen by drawing lots.
What is the Council of 500?
Plato's book that rejected democracy in favor of a wise and just king.
What is the The Republic?
One of Homer's two epic poems.
What is The Iliad or The Odyssey?
He mastered the use of objects that could alter force.
Who was Archimedes?
Narrow waterways that separate larger bodies of water.
What are staits?
An excuse; or a false reason to hide the real reason. Exactly like Helen of Troy being responsible for the Greek war with Troy.
What is a pretext?
An alliance of several Greek city-states headed by Sparta that was created to counter the power of Athens.
What is the Peloponnesian League?
The popular speech by Pericles that praised soldiers who died in battle but also warned his listeners to not let them die in vain for the greatness of Athens.
What is the Funeral Oration?
The school, set up by Aristotle, designed to study a wide variety of subjects.
What is the Lyceum?
He is known as the "Father of History".
Who was Herodotus?
The "Father of Geometry".
Who was Euclid?