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This mathematician created the Archimedes screw and discovered the relationship between volume and surface area.
Who was Archimedes?
Greece's mainland is mostly covered in this geographical feature.
What is a mountain?
This is the god of the sky.
Who is Zeus
This battle marked the start of the Persian Wars.
What was the battle of Marathon?
Greece expanded their trade by building these structures near the water.
What are ports?
He was the king of Macedonia and created the largest empire of his time by conquering the eastern Mediterranean and Egypt.
Who was Alexander the Great?
There was a large one of these in the center of Athens upon which the Parthenon sat.
What is a Hill?
He is the god of the Sea.
Who is Neptune?
This Spartan leader along with 300 soldiers held off the Persians for 7 days at the battle of Thermopylae.
Who was Leonidas?
This Greek city state founded the Delian League.
Who was Athens?
This Persian king started the Persian wars by declaring war on Athens.
Who was King Darius l?
Ancient Greeks traveled across this Sea to go from city to city.
What is the Aegean Sea?
There are three main Greek gods, Zeus, Poseidon and this god.
Who is Hades?
This battle during the Persian wars occurred in the water.
What was the battle of Salamis?
This fighting formation helped Greece win the battle of Marathon.
What is the Phalanx?
This historian and writer wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who was Homer?
The peninsula that we call Turkey today was referred to by this name during the Greek period.
What is Asia Minor?
This is the goddess of magic.
Who is Hekat?
This battle ended the Persian wars when Athens and Sparta defeated Xerxes and the Persians.
What was the battle of Plataea?
What is the final Kingdom Alexander the Great Invades before his troops demand to stop.
What is India?
He developed democracy and constructed the Acropolis.
Who was Pericles?
This is the peninsula in which Sparta was located.
What is the Peloponnesian peninsula?
These structures were built in honor of multiple gods or goddesses.
What is a temple?
This Greek General from Athens Commanded the Navy at Salamis.
Who was Themistocles?
This is where Alexander the great dies.
What is Babylon?