Math and Science
This mathematician developed a theorem to determine the side lengths of triangles.
Who is Pythagoras?
This type of literature often involved talking animals and ended with a moral lesson.
What is a fable?
This advanced and artistic island civilization was the first to thrive in the area that would become Greece.
Who are the Minoans?
This was was fought between the Mycenaeans and the Trojans.
What is the Trojan War?
This is a system of government in which all citizens exercise authority by voting.
What is democracy?
This is the highest mountain in Greece, and was believed to be the home of the gods.
What is Mount Olympus?
This mathematician advanced the understanding of levers and pulleys.
Who is Archimedes?
This type of literature tells stories of the gods in order to explain the world. There are many different versions.
What is a myth?
This warlike civilization probably contributed to the disappearance of the Minoans.
Who are the Mycenaeans?
This civilization won the Trojan War.
Who are the Mycenaeans?
These goddesses were thought to inspire artists musicians - music is named after them.
Who are the muses?
This large open space in Athens was the location of an open-air marketplace and the center of social life in the city.
What is the agora?
This physician is known as "the father of medicine."
Who is Hippocrates?
This type of literature included comedies and tragedies and was often performed as part of religious festivals.
What is drama (plays)?
This Athenian leader was a famous orator and helped lead Athens into the classical age.
Who is Pericles?
This war was fought between the Greeks and the Persians.
What is the Persian War?
This athletic festival was originally held in the city of Olympia to honor the gods.
What are the Olympics?
This high place in Athens was built on a hill and contained many religious buildings.
What is the Acropolis?
This mathematician wrote the first geometry book.
Who is Euclid?
These long poems tell stories of human heroes who set examples of different virtues to teach people how they should live.
What are epics?
This Greek philosopher was executed for leading Athenian youth astray.
Who is Socrates?
What is Athens.
This primitive calculator, made from sticks and beads, allowed Greek mathematicians to calculate the circumference of the Earth.
What is an Abacus?
This temple is the best example of Greek architecture.
What is the Parthenon?
This astronomer believed that the earth revolved around the sun.
Who is Aristarchus?
This author wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
This philosopher was hired by Philip II to tutor his son Alexander.
Who is Aristotle?
This war was fought between Athens and Sparta.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
This leader was responsible for making Greek the most widely spoken language in the ancient world.
Who is Alexander the Great?
This peninsula forms the southern part of Greece.
What is the Peloponnesus?
This mathematician, astronomer, and geographer was the first to draw latitude and longitude lines on maps. He also determined the circumference of the Earth.
Who is Eratosthenes?
This author wrote many of the most famous fables.
Who is Aesop?
Although Alexander the Great is known as the King of Greece, he was actually from this nation.
What is Macedonia?
This league of city-states supported Athens during the Peloponnesian War.
What is the Delian League.
The Greek alphabet was the first to use written symbols to represent these kinds of letters.
What are vowels?
This island of the coast of Greece was home to the Minoan civilization.
What is Crete?