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This blind poet is credited with the creation of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
This city-state was the home of many influential Greek historical figures such as Solon, Themistocles, Pericles, Plato, and Aristotle.
What is Athens?
This philosopher spent his time asking pointed and probing questions of people regarding their beliefs, and today we continue to associate his name with a method of teaching through posing questions.
Who is Socrates?
This Greek physician created a code of ethics for doctors that remains largely the same today.
Who is Hippocrates?
Alexander was this age when he became king of Macedonia.
What is 20 years old?
This king who conquered Greece was the father of Alexander the Great.
Who is Philip II?
This city-state was known for their fearsome and effective soldiers.
What is Sparta?
This philosopher created a school in Athens called the Lyceum and taught that people ought to pursue the "golden mean" to live a good life.
Who is Aristotle?
This Greek mathematician created a formula to calculate the relationship between the sides of a right triangle.
Who is Pythagoras?
Alexander and his followers founded many cities during his conquests, the most famous is located in this country.
What is Egypt?
This Greek engineer invented and improved many tools that are still used today.
Who is Archimedes?
This vast palace filled with paintings of dolphins and bulls was the capital of the Minoan civilization.
What is Knossos?
This Athenian was wary of government following the execution of Socrates and wrote a book which advocated for society to be ruled by 'philosopher kings'.
Who is Plato?
Archimedes invested this tool, which helped to carry water from a low level to a higher level.
What is the Archimedean screw?
In 326 BC, Alexander's armies encountered this unique tool of warfare in northern India.
What are war elephants?
This Persian king invaded Greece a second time after the failure of his father's prior invasion, and his massive force was defeated at the battle of Salamis.
Who is Xerxes?
This mountainous region is the homeland of Philip II and Alexander the Great.
What is Macedonia?
Plato wrote this book which laid out his ideal society as one ruled by a 'philosopher king'.
What is The Republic?
This Egyptian astronomer developed a geocentric theory of our solar system which was the generally accepted model until the 16th century.
Who is Ptolemy?
In 334 BC, Alexander and his armies crossed this straight between the continents of Europe and Asia minor.
What is the Dardanelles straight?
This Athenian historian was known for striving to be fair by giving equal treatment to both 'sides' of the history of the Peloponnesian war between Athens and Sparta and their respective Leagues.
Who is Thucydides?
This ancient city was the place where Alexander died suddenly after being stuck by illness and fever.
What is Babylon?
This philosopher was the founder of the Stoic school of thought.
Who is Zeno of Citium?
This Greek astronomer pioneered the heliocentric model of the solar system two thousand years before it's popular adoption.
Who is Aristarchus?
The location of Alexander's first military victory, fought against the Persians.
What is the Granicus River?