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Greek City-States
Greek Religion
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Writer of the Iliad and the The Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
100
Open area used as a market and meeting place.
What is Agora?
100
She is the Greek Goddess that is the protector of Athens, and goddess of wisedom.
Who is Athena?
100
The greatest historian of the ancient world.
Who is Thucydides?
100
Greek Culture spread into Southwest Asia during this Era which means "to imitate the Greeks".
What is Hellenistic Era?
200
He believed "the unexamined life is not worth living".
Who is Socrates?
200
By 750 B.C. , the ____________ or city-state, became the central focus of Greek life.
What is polis?
200
Home of the Greek Gods.
What is Olympus?
200
Astronomer in the Hellenistic Age.
Who is Aristarchus of Samos?
200
Name two of the Kingdoms that emerged in Southwest Asia during the Hellenistic Era.
What is (Macedonia, or Syria, or Pergamum, and/or Egypt?
300
According to this Philosopher, individuals could not achieve a good life unless they lived in a just and rational state.
Who is Plato?
300
This was the first Greek state.
What is Mycenae?
300
This is a fortified place and religous center.
What is acropolis?
300
Eratosthenes determined this about the Earth.
What is that the Earth was round and calucalted its circumference and was relativitly close to the actual figure?
300
Cleisthenes created this large group that supervised foreign affairs, it was known as....
What is the council of 500?
400
Happiness was the goal of life and could be achieved through the pursuit of pleasure according to the philosophy of .....
Who is Epicurus?
400
The government of Spatra was ruled by a few. This type of government is known as _________________.
What is oligarchy?
400
This Greek God is considered the most powerful and also the father of the Gods.
Who is Zeus?
400
He Shouted "Eureka!" after discovering specific gravity.
Who is Archemedes?
400
This had final authority to pass laws in Athens.
What is Athenian assembly?
500
Sophocles is the playwright wrote about a man marrying his mother after killing his father. This play is known as ........
What is Oedipus Rex?
500
This Athenian man ran from Marathon to Athens to announce the defeat of the Persians and then dropped dead.
Who is Pheidippides?
500
The central city of Minoam civilzation.
What is Knossos?
500
He is the mathematician who wrote textbook "Elements", which was a textbook on plane geometry that has been used up to modern times.
Who is Euclid?
500
Under this ruler a direct democracy was established, every male citizen participated, and voted on all major issues.
Who is Pericles?