Chapter 8, Section 1
Substances from which other products are made.
What are raw materials?
This Greek city focused more on intense physical training than on intellectual academics.
Who is Sparta?
A period of great cultural achievement.
What is a golden age?
A disease that causes many deaths.
What is a plague?
A group of people chosen to decide guilt or innocence in a trial.
Who is the jury?
The center of Minoan culture, religion, and economy
What is Knossos?
Another name for Greek warships.
What are triremes?
This was formed to prepare to fight future wars with Persia.
What is the Delian League?
An agreement to stop fighting.
What is a truce?
The name of the son of Phillip II of Macedonia.
What is Alexander the Great?
The author of The Odyssey and The Iliad.
Who is Homer?
Another name for a partnership.
What is an alliance?
The ability to live forever.
What is immortal.
Sparta teamed up with this country when they could not defeat Athens.
Who is Persia?
The time period dominated by Greek culture after the death of Alexander the Great.
What is the Hellenistic Era?
A character who faces a challenge that demands courage, strength, and intelligence.
Who is a hero?
The Persian King in the Battle of Thermopylae.
Who is Xerxes I?
The Parthenon was dedicated to which Greek God/Goddess?
Who is Athena?
The War fought between Sparta and Athens over the Delian League.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
This philosopher encouraged his pupils to question everything and think deeply. He also committed suicide when he was charged with treason.
Who is Socrates?
A government ruled by a small group of elite, landowning families.
What is an aristocracy?
The Greeks fought the Persians at this battle, eventually losing and being forced to regroup.
What is the Battle of Thermopylae?
The Roman name for Apollo.
What is Apollo?
This sickness killed 1 out of every 3 Athenians.
What is Typhoid Fever?
This philosopher tutored Alexander the Great.
Who is Aristotle?