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Who was the Father of Medicine?
Hippocrates
100
What was Athens' biggest military advantage?
Most powerful Navy
100
True or false: Luxuries were banned in Sparta.
True
100
What athletic contest began in Greece?
Olympics
100
What is the Minoan writing system called?
Linear A
200
Who was the Father of History?
Herodotus
200
Name one reason Athens lost the Peloponnesian Wars.
Plague, supply lines broken and starved into submission, defeat at Syracuse lost their navy
200
What was Sparta's goal in a having military culture?
Discipline, loyalty, and preventing uprisings
200
What was the spread of Greek culture throughout Alexander the Great's empire called?
Hellenization
200
What is a thespian?
An actor
300
Who is the Father of Geometry?
Euclid
300
After political reforms expanding democracy, Athens experienced what kind of economic results?
Prosperity
300
Who ruled Sparta?
Council of Ephors (Old Men)
300
Whom did the ancient Greek Olympics honor?
Zeus
300
What is a Greek ship called?
trireme
400
Who discovered the laws of levers?
Archimedes
400
What was the famous temple in Athens that overlooked the city?
Parthenon
400
Who were the people conquered by Sparta and made into slaves?
Helots
400
What is the word for a Greek city state
polis
400
What is a Greek soldier called?
A hoplite
500
What two famous works did Homer write?
Iliad and Odyssey
500
Name three cultural areas Athens was famous for during the Golden Age.
Art, philosophy, drama, architecture, education, medicine
500
What type of government did Sparta have?
Oligarchy
500
Name the four types of government common in ancient Greece.
Oligarchy, Monarchy, Democracy, Tyranny
500
What is a phalanx
A military formation