Alexander the Great
During this campaign, Alexander the Great was victorious in the Battle of Mount Haemus, Siege of Pelium, and the Battle of Thebes.
What is the Balkan Campaign?
This king of the gods was known as the God of the sky, lightning, thunder, law, order, and justice in ancient Greek religion.
Who is Zeus?
The capital and largest city in ancient Greece.
What is Athens?
This type of race commemorates the approximately 25 mile run of the messenger Pheidippides to Athens in 490 B.C. to announce the defeat of the Persians.
What is a marathon?
Said to be a blind bard from Ionia, he was the author of well-known epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
After the Balkan Campaign, Alexander the Great spent over ten years conquering this empire.
What is the Persian Empire?
This highest mountain in Greece is said to be home of the Gods.
What is Mount Olympus?
This city was an Oligarchy, which translates to “rule by the few.”
What is Sparta?
According to legend, a large wooden one of this animal was used by Greeks faking retreat to gain entrance into Troy, defeating its people to end the Trojan War.
What is a horse?
Teacher of Plato and Xenophon, this first moral philosopher is credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy.
Who is Socrates?
After the assassination of his father Philip, Alexander was proclaimed king of this region at the age of 20.
What is Macedonia?
Son of the immortal Nereid Thetis and the mortal Peleus, he was a Greek hero of the Trojan War and the greatest warrior of Homer's the Iliad.
Who is Achilles?
Athens had this type of government, which translates to “rule by the people.”
What is a democracy?
This war, lasting from 431–404 BC was fought by the Athenian-led Delian League against the Spartan-led Peloponnesian League.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
This Greek physician of the Age of Pericles is often referred to as the "Father of Medicine."
Who is Hippocrates?
This famous Ancient Greek Philosopher taught a young Alexander the Great on subjects such as religion, logic, medicine, philosophy, morals, and art.
Who is Aristotle?
The first-born son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba, this Prince and greatest fighter of Troy was killed by Achilles.
Who is Hector?
This city was the foremost trading power of the Mediterranean by 500 B.C.
What is Athens?
The conflict between the Greeks and the Persian Empire began when Cyrus the Great conquered this Greek-inhabited region.
What is Ionia?
This Greek mathematician is often referred to as the "founder of geometry."
Who is Euclid?
This “H” word describes the spread of ancient Greek culture, religion and in some cases language over foreign peoples conquered by Alexander the Great.
What is Hellenization?
This daughter of Zeus was known as the Goddess of wisdom, poetry, art, and war strategy.
Who is Athena?
In this city women had more rights and could own property.
What is Sparta?
This war is known as the first phase of the Peloponnesian War.
What is the Archidamian War?
Often referred to as "The Father of History" he authored The Histories in an attempt to “prevent the traces of human events from being erased by time, and to preserve the fame of the important and remarkable achievements produced by both Greeks and non-Greeks.”
Who is Herodotus?