Alexander the Great
Just two years after Alexander became king of Macedonia, he invaded this empire.
What is the Persian Empire?
A doctor who looked for natural causes of diseases.
Who is Hippocrates?
The name of longest Olympic race.
What is a marathon?
Traditional stories that may include gods and goddesses and often try to explain events in nature.
What is a myth?
What are agoras?
The name of a city Alexander founded that became the greatest center of trade and learning.
What is Alexandria?
An inventor who improved pulleys for moving heavy loads and developed a screw for carrying water.
Who is Archimedes?
During this time period, the people of Athens built magnificent new temples.
What is the Golden Age?
The name of a blind poet who composed two poems about the Trojan War.
Who is Homer?
Valuables seized in wartime.
What is plunder?
The name the ancient Greeks used for their country.
What is Hellas?
An inventor who started a school for the development of mathematics and geometry.
Who is Pythagoras?
What ancient Greeks called logical thinking.
What is reason?
Homer's poems that were passed down by word of mouth (from person to person) were called this.
What is an oral tradition?
The peninsula extending outward from Europe into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the Balkan Peninsula?
When Alexander invaded and conquered Egypt, he was crowned as this.
What is a pharaoh?
An inventor who worked out a system of plane geometry that students still study today.
Who is Euclid?
A fast spreading, often deadly disease, that broke out in Athens.
What is the plague?
The area where the ancient Greeks thought their gods lived.
What is Mount Olympus?
The western edge of Asia is known by this name.
What is Asia Minor?
The 3 continents on which Alexander conquered lands.
Greek science and mathematics reached their peaks during this age.
What is the Hellenistic Age?
The war that broke out between Athens and Sparta in the area of Peloponnesus.
What is the Peloponnesian War?
Athletic contests, held every four years, to honor Zeus.
What are the Olympic Games?
The famous Greek thinker that said, "Like Frogs around a pool, we have settled down upon the shores of this sea".
Who is Plato?