Early Greece
City-States and Greek Culture
The Golden Age
The Golden Age - Continued
Alexander’s Great Empire
100
A collection of myths, or traditional stories, handed down from generations to generations.
What is mythology?
100
A system in which a small group controls the government.
What is an Oligarchy?
100
The leader of Athens after the Persian Wars.
Who is Perciles?
100
League formed by Athens and its allies.
What is the Delian League?
100
Common ancestor shared by the people of the city-states of Greece.
Who is Hellen?
200
Group of 200 islands off east coast of Greece mainland in Aegean Sea
What are the Cyclades?
200
Made decisions in Athenian government.
What is a council and an assembly?
200
The great Greek scientist who showed that illnesses were caused by natural causes, not angry gods.
Who is Hippocrates?
200
The League formed by Sparta and its allies.
What is the Peloponnesian League?
200
The citizens of Athens and Sparta worked together to defeat these invaders.
Who are the Persians?
300
Two stories by Homer that describe the Trojan War.
What are the Iliad and the Odyssey?
300
A governing system in which a country’s people elect their leaders and rule by majority.
What is a democracy?
300
War that ended the Golden Age.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
300
The two Greek philosophers who taught that the best life was one spent in search of knowledge and truth.
Who are Aristotle and Plato?
300
Alexander the Great's conquests were led by this.
What is the defeat of the Persian Empire?
400
Culture that borrowed art styles and writing from the Minoans.
What is the Mycenaean culture?
400
Common mythology, religion, activities, and language.
What are the factors uniting Ancient Greece?
400
The Greek Philosopher that drank poison because he believed that all citzens should follow the law.
Who is Socrates?
400
Major changes that Pericles made to the Athenian government.
What are paying officials and opening offices to male citizens of all classes?
400
The period of Alexander’s rule and several centuries after his death.
What is the Hellenistic Age?
500
This culture, based on Crete, made bronze items for trade.
What is the Minoan culture?
500
Sparta's economy was built around this.
What is the military?
500
Greek Philosopher who entered Plato’s academy at age 18 and believed that the best life was spent searching for knowledge and truth.
Who is Aristotle?
500
Writers of tragedies and comedies from the Golden Age.
Who are Sophocles and Aristophanes?
500
Three scholars who wrote books and exchanged ideas during Alexander the Great's leadership.
Who are Euclid, Aristarchus and Eratosthenes?
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