Great Thinkers
He was sentenced to end his life by drinking poison for teaching dangerous ideas
Who was Socrates
Most people in Greece settled by the coasts of the Ionian and Aegean sea for this economic activity
What is fishing?
The god of thunder and lightning and king of all the gods
Who is Zeus?
The voting age in Ancient Greece
What is 18?
An athletic festival that honors Zeus
What is the Olympics?
A well known student of Socrates
Who was Plato?
A material used to create tools that farmers used to produce more food
What is iron?
God of the sea
Who is Poseidon?
A type of government where citizens get to make decisions themselves
What is a direct democracy?
A place where stories of tragedies or comedies about Greek life were told
What is the theatre?
Who wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey
Who was Homer?
People who make specialized tools out of bone, metal, clay and wood
What are craft workers?
Goddess of wisdom
Who is Athena?
What was the most powerful city-state in Ancient Greece?
What is Sparta?
An example of Greek architecture that took 9 years to complete
What is the Parthenon?
A method of questioning often used when teaching debate
What is the Socratic Method?
The area where Greek residents traded their goods
What is the Mediterranian Sea?
A belief system with many gods
What is polytheism?
This man pushed for equality in government decisions
Who is Pericles?
The writing system by which the Ancient Greeks created their own alphabet
What is the Phoenician writing system?
A person who studied math and developed a theory about triangles
Who was Pythagoras?
A city located on the Aegean Sea, the center of Greek wealth and trade
What is Athens?
A story that explains how things came to be in nature and life
What is a myth?
Sparta and Athens were ruled by what type of government?
What is an oligarchy?
The general name for a type of person who uses thinking and questioning to study the world and its events
What is a scientist?
(What is a philosopher?)