This is a high, rocky hill where early people built cities.
What is an acropolis?
100
A war fought between Athens and Sparta, that also involved all of the other city-states (431-404 B.C.)
What is the Peloponnesian War?
100
This war took place in the fall of 490 B.C.. It included thousands of Persians. It began 25 miles north of Athens. The Persians outnumbered the Athenians, but they won this war anyways.
What was the Battle at Marathon?
100
I am the messenger god.
Who is Hermes?
100
I was a philosopher who wanted people to consider the real qualities such as bravery and justice.
Who was Socrates?
200
This is a member of a rich and powerful family.
What is an aristocrat?
200
The king of Macedonia who conquered Persia and Egypt and invaded India.
Who is Alexander the Great?
200
This war began far beyond the Indus River. It began in 323 B.C. and stretched as far as Babylon.
What was Alexander's last battle?
200
I am the god of music and poetry?
Who is Apollo?
200
I lived in the 400s B.C. and I thought everything was made up of atoms and was proven 2000 years later correct.
Who was Democritus?
300
This is a long story-telling poem.
What is an epic?
300
An action taken to isolate the enemy and cut off its supplies.
What is a blockade?
300
This war began in 431 B.C. and was fought by Sparta and the Athenians when the other city-states started to resent Athens power and looked to Sparta to protect them.
What was the Peloponnesian War?
300
I am the goddess of marriage and childbirth.
Who is Hera?
300
I believed that water was the basic material of the world, (which it wasn't).
Who was Thales?
400
A payment made by a less powerful state or nation to a more powerful one.
What is a tribute?
400
A public market or meeting place in ancient Greece.
What is an agora?
400
This war was fought between the Greeks and the Trojans. It is famous for a gift of a wooden horse.
What is the Trojan War?
400
I am the goddess of beauty and love.
Who is Aphrodite?
400
I believed that reason should guide pursuit of knowledge, and I founded my own school called the Lyceum and was the student of Plato.
Who was Aristotle?
500
This is a sacred site in ancient Greece used to consult a god or goddess; any priest or priestess who spoke for the gods.
What is an oracle?
500
Describing Greek history or culture after the death of Alexander the Great.
What is Hellenistic?
500
This war started in Asia Minor and reached Judea, Egypt, and Babylon.
What is Alexander's first battle?
500
I am the goddess of fertility and the harvest.
Who is Demeter?
500
I wrote that society should be made up of three groups; workers, soldiers, philosophers-rulers and founded a school called the Academy.