Greek bard and author of The Iliad and The Odyssey
Homer
100
A person conquered by Sparta who became a slave
Helot
200
A fort built on top of a large hill
Acropolis
200
A professional storyteller who traveled from town to town, telling stories and singing songs about Greek gods, goddesses, and heroes
Bard
200
Ruler during the “Golden Age” of Athens
Pericles
200
Greek philosopher who taught by asking questions
Socrates
200
An open-air market where people gathered to trade and discuss the news of the day in Greek city-states
Agora
300
A group of allies
League
300
A lawmaking group
Assembly
300
Which leader eventually brought Greece together?
Pericles
300
He conquered Asia Minor, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, and parts of Greece and India. His empire stretched from Greece all the way to the Indus Valley in ancient India.
Alexander the Great
300
These two thinkers developed because of the thinking of Socrates
Plato and Aristotle
400
A new settlement separated from but ruled by a homeland
Colony
400
A story about how the actions of Gods and Goddesses affected the lives of people
Myth
400
She was an Egyptian mathematician and philosopher who headed a school of philosophy in Alexandria. She developed many theories in mathematics and invented tools for measuring the properties of water
Hypatia
400
Used mathematics to discover that Earth rotates and moves in a path around the sun. He also tried to calculate the size of the sun and the moon.
Aristarchus
400
Used mathematics to invent many machines, including water pumps. He also explained how pulleys and levers work
Archimedes
500
A Greek city-state that connected a city and the farms, towns, and villages around it
Polis
500
A story handed down from earlier times that explains the past
Legend
500
Used mathematics, including geometry, to estimate, quite closely, Earth’s diameter and circumference
Eratosthenes
500
Greek teacher who is considered the greatest historian of ancient times
Thucydides
500
Macedonian conqueror who ruled a series of Greek city-states