Famous Greeks
Leonidas, Alexander, Themistocles
Leaders
Spartan boys left home at 7 to go where?
Military school
Name 2 locations of a great battle in the Persian War:
Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, Plataea
2 combatants
Athens and Sparta
Where was Alexander the Great from?
Macedonia
Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
Philosophy
Athenian boys went where at age 7?
School
Who were the 2 main defenders of Greece?
Athens & Sparta
Who had the stronger Army? Stronger Navy?
Sparta- Army
Athens- Navy
Who was Alexander's father?
King Phillip II or Zeus
Aesop, Homer, Hesiod
Literature/ Writers
Name 2 subjects that Athenian boys studied at school?
Reading, grammar, poetry, history, math, music
Who was the Persian King?
King Darius
This destroyed 1/3- 2/3 of the Athenians:
Plague from rotten grain
How old was Alexander when he had 'conquered the world'?
32 yrs old
Pythagoras, Euclid
Mathamatics
Name 2 things that Athenian women were educated in?
Child-rearing, weaving cloth, cooking meals, managing the household, other skills to help them become mothers and wives
What was the result of the battle of Thermopylae?
Persians won after Sparta was betrayed by a traitor
423 BCE: Peace of Nicias was supposed to last for 50 years. How long did it really last for?
8 years
Who was Alexander's mentor/teacher?
Aristotle
Herodotus, Thucydides
Historians
Athens had 4 social class; how many could participate in the government?
3
Who was Themistocles and how did he impact the Persian Wars?
He was a military general whose creative attacks defeated the Persians at Plataea
What did the Peloponnesian War end?
Greece's Golden Age
Why did people think that Alexander's mom killed his dad?
She was jealous of Philip's new wife and son;
she wanted to stay in power;
she didn't like Phillip;
she thought that Zeus was the real dad so she didn't care