Famous Greek people.
Who allowed the culture of Greece to spread throughout the lands conquered by this man. (Hint, was son of King Philip II.)
Alexander the Great
Which city-state was the rival of Sparta?
Athens.
Was Finnegan McManus the leader of Greece?
No
The golden age of Greece was a period of?
Extraordinary Achievements
What type of religion did the Greeks have?
Polytheistic (they believed in many gods)
Who became the leader of Athens in 461 B.C.
Pericles
The ________ and _______ people first arrived in Greece in 50,000 B.C.
Minoans and Mycenaeans
The Greeks were mainly known for these two things.
Agriculture, and sophisticated scupltures.
These 3 famous men led the philosophers of Greece
Aristotle, Socrates, and Plato.
The temples were used to do what?
Worship the gods, and have ceremonies carried out.
Who established a direct democracy, and increased the people's power in Athens?
Cleisthenes
Which country lies on both the Balkan and Peloponnesus peninsula and is connected by an Isthmus?
Greece.
The Greek's idea about _____, ______, and ______, helped shape the modern world.
Democracy, science, and philosophy.
The Greeks were known for these achievements during their golden age as well.
Mathematics, and medicine.
Which god/goddess was the patron of Corinth, and Helios.
Aphrodite
Who was the statesman who controlled the government in Athens?
Solon.
Another name for a group of upper class noblemen who acted as the advisors for the king.
Aristocrats.
This country was the enemy of Athens, and had an oligarchy rule by a small group of warriors.
Sparta
What was the name of the mathematician that developed the principals of geometry?
Euclid
The Greeks made the gods, and myths about them to represent what?
To show that they represented an essential part of nature, or ideas.
Who was the king who led Athens and Sparta against the Persian empire?
King Darius I.
What was the main reason that made transportation and communication hard for Greece?
Mountains.
Which empire forced the two major city-states in Greece to join together, and defeat them.
Persian empire.
During the golden age of Greece, architects designed these two things with graceful columns.
Temples, and theatres..
Where were the people who were forgotten by the living world sent to in death?
Land of Hades.