Early Greece
This ancient civilization on Crete prospered through trade and biult the palace at Knossos.
What is the Minoan civilization?
This term refers to a Greek city-state.
What is a polis?
This island civilization thrived as a trade hub between Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Aegean. Importing and exporting various items.
What is Crete?
This philosopher used to question to uncover truth, a method named after him.
Who is Socrates?
This Macedonian King united Greece and planned to conquer Persia before his assassination.
Who is Philip II?
This war, fought around 1250 B.C., was likely over control of the Dardanelles strait.
What is the Trojan War?
This city-state was known for its strict military training starting at age 7.
What is Sparta?
This Macedonian leader's boldness and charisma inspired his troops to keep marching east, even though harsh conditions.
Who is Alexander the Great?
This philosopher founded the Academy and wrote The Republic.
Who is Plato?
This Greek physician honored for an oath that set ethical standards for medical practice, studied the causes of illnesses and sought cures.
Who is Hippocrates?
This palace served as the political and religious center of Minoan civilization, featuring storerooms, banquet halls, and shrines.
What is the Palace at Knossos?
This Athenian leader guided Athens during its Golden Age.
Who is Pericles?
These two types of Greek plays explored human suffering and mocked social customs.
What are tragedy and comedy?
This philosopher taught the "Golden Mean" and tutored Alexander the Great.
Who is Aristotle?
Alexanders empire marked the start of this cultural era that blended Greek, Persian, Egyptian, and Indian influences.
What is Hellenistic era?
This poet is created with writing the lliad and Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
This formation of heavily armed soldiers was a key military tactic in Greece.
What is the phalanx?
This alliance led by Athens after the Persian Wars was meant to protect against future invasions but later caused resentment among city-states.
What is the Delion League?
This historian called the "Father of History" wrote about the Persian Wars.
Who is Herodotus?
Alexander adopted this Persian custom to help unite his empire and encourage cultural blending.
What is wearing Persian dress?
Name two possible causes for the decline of Minoan civilization.
What are earthquakes, volcanic eruption, or invasions?
In Athens Golden Age, this system allowed citizens to participate in government by voting on laws themselves rather than electing representatives. What
What is direct democracy?
This Greek mathematician wrote "The elements", a foundational text for geometry that is still studied today.
Who is Euclid?
Name two characteristics of Greek art and architecture.
What are balance, order, beauty?
This Hellenistic mathematician invented the screw for raising water and understand the principle of levers.
Who is Archimedes?