Geography
What bodies of water surrounded Ancient Greece?
West- Ionian Sea
South- Mediterranean Sea
East- Aegean Sea
I was King of the Spartans, I led Spartan military at the Battle of Thermopylae.
Leonidas
Only One leader, Usually a Military leader that over throws a government.
Tyranny
Who was the Peloponnesian war fought between?
Athens and Sparta
In Ancient Greece, Why was a truce declared between all warring city-states before each Olympic Games?
In order to allow the games to be held without interruption.
Where was the Minoan Civilization located?
On the island of Crete
I founded the Achaemenid Empire.
Cyrus the Great
Monarchy
Commissioned to be built by Pericles on the Acropolis, this temple was built to honor the goddess Athena.
The Parthenon
Who invented the compound pulley?
Archimedes
What were the most powerful Ancient Greek city-states?
Athens, Sparta, Corinth, and Thebes
I was born near Athens around 470 BCE, I was a controversial thinker that developed a method of teaching by asking questions that is still used today.
Socrates
Ruled by a group of people usually the wealthy and or educated.
Oligarchy
Greek ships used the Athenian Navy were called?
Triremes
He and his followers derived the Pythagorean theorem.
Pythagoras
Corinth was what type of geographic feature? (Island, Peninsula, Isthmus, Mountain etc….)
Isthmus
I was born in Macedonia, I studied under Aristotle, I went on to become King and conquer the Achaemenid Empire.
Alexander the Great
In this type of Government the power of rule is shared by the people.
Democracy
What was the Delian League?
An association of Greek city-states formed to fight against the Persian empire.
Greek author credited with writing the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Homer
What colonies did Corinth establish?
Corcyra and Syracuse
I was a Greek philosopher and student of Socrates. I started a school called the Academy.
Plato
A monarch rules the nation but is limited in power by a constitution or set of written laws.
Constitutional monarchy
What was the name of the battle formation used by the Greeks, especially the Spartans.
The Phalanx
What was one of Plato's' most famous and influential writings?
The Republic