Government & Intellectual People
Who was Alexander the Great?
A story that is designed to teach a lesson
What is a fable?
The Greek name for a city-state
What is a polis?
Name three facts about the Olympic Games in ancient Greece
What are: religious ceremony; held every 4 years; lasted for 5 days; men only; truce called so all athletics from around Greece could compete; competed in the nude; laurel wreath; Olympia; events?
Name of the head Greek god
Who is Zeus?
Came up with a theorem to figure out the area of a triangle
Who is Pythagoras?
Stories about gods and goddesses and how their actions affected nature or the lives of humans
What are myths?
The Greeks believed that the gods and goddesses lived here
What is Mt. Olympus?
Thick columns with plain, round capitals
What are Doric?
Winner of the Peloponnesian War
What was Sparta?
Who was Hippocrates?
A lengthy poem about the actions of heroes
What is an epic?
The busy marketplace one went to buy/sell goods; meet for the Assembly; discuss politics, philosophy, and news; went to court; conduct business; go to school; or visit government offices
What is the agora?
Taller, thinner columns with rounded bases and scroll-shaped capitals
What are Ionic?
A piece of land surrounding by water on three sides
What is a peninsula?
Built the Parthenon
Who is Pericles?
People who wanted to explain life by their own wisdom and not the actions of the gods
Who were philosophers?
This early Greek civilization was believed to attack Troy with the Trojan Horse
What were the Mycenaeans?
Taller, thinner columns with fancy leaf patterns on the capital
What is Corinthian?
Christianity was influenced the most by the ancient Greek in this way
What was the NT being written in Greek?
Discovered water displacement could help one figure out volume
Who was Archimedes?
Thinking that uses observation, data, and prior knowledge to make conclusions
What is inductive reasoning?
What were the Minoans?
The two types of plays Greeks performed as part of their religious ceremonies
What are comedies & tragedies?
What is rocky soil, island, rugged coastline, four major regions, city-states, mountains/valleys?