Ancient Greece 1
Xerxes was king of ___________?
Persia
Who conquered Greece and later the Persian empire?
Alexander the Great
He accurately estimated the value of pi (π) - ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter
Archimedes
What did Odysseus create to end the Trojan War?
Wooden horse
Who was the Greek god of the underworld?
Hades
Which city-state gave women more freedom?
Sparta
What is a"polis?"
City-state
He founded the school of philosophy called Stoicism
Who was Zeno?
What famous fablist created tales that have lasted over 3,000 years?
Aesop
The arts and philosophy were more important to which city-state?
Athens
Alexander and his army reached as far east as the ____ River Valley
Indus
What type of government did Sparta have?
Oligarchies
Vowing to crush the invaders, this person raised a huge army of between 50,000 and 75,000 men to face the Macedonians near Issus during the Persian wars.
Who was Darius III?
What war weakened Greece to the point it was conquered by Alexander the Great?
The Peloponesian War
The Olympics were in honor of what god?
Zeus
Homer wrote the Odyssey and the
Iliad
Who won at the battle of Thermopylae
Persians
The Greek word philosophy literally means?
love of wisdom - Greek philo (love) and sophia (wisdom)
This bronze statue stood more than 100 feet high. One of the seven wonders of the ancient world, this huge sculpture was toppled by an earthquake in about 225 BCE.
What was the Colossus of Rhodes?
Alexander the Great's father.
Who was Philip II of Macedonia
Ancient Athens, was mostly known for this type of government, called________________, which has still influeced the West to this day.
democracy
The name of the league headed by Athens to meet the threat of invasion by the Persians.
What is the Delian League?
Among the many cities of the Hellenistic world, the Egyptian city of _______________ became the foremost center of commerce and Hellenistic civilization.
What is Alexandria?
These three sea surround Greece.
Ionian, Aegean, Mediterranean
Where did the original Greeks first settle?
Crete