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This Athenian philosopher was best known for askng questions - a teaching method that is still used today?
Who is Socrates?
100
An independent state made up of a city and the surrounding land and villages.
What is city-state?
100
The goddess of wisdom, warfare, battle strategy, heroic endeavour, handicrafts and reason.
Who is Athena?
100
This is the age when boys in Sparta left their homes to go to war.
What is seven?
100
Alexander the Great became king after this happened.
What is King Philip his father was assassinated.
200
This Ancient Greek poet wrote the Illiad and the Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
200
This Greece city-state was known for its military strength and training.
What is Sparta?
200
The god of music, healing, plague, prophecies, poetry, and archery; associated with light, truth and the sun.
Who is Apollo?
200
In this Olympics, winners receive a gold, silver, or bronze medal.
What is the modern Olympic games?
200
A person who belongs to a group that others consider to be wild, or uncivilized.
What is a barbarian?
300
This student of Socrates, wrote the Republic and opened up a school in Athens called the "Academy".
Who is Plato?
300
An "open assembly" area in Ancient Greece where people went to shop.
What is the agora?
300
Kingof the Underworld and god of the dead and the hidden wealth of the Earth.
Who is Hades?
300
Athen's Golden Age came between these two wars.
What are the Persian and the Peloponnesian Wars?
300
This most famous Hellenistic city had a huge lighthouse.
What is Alexandria (in Egypt)?
400
This student of Socrates, wrote the Republic and opened up a school in Athens called the "Academy".
Who is Pericles?
400
These two crops were well suited for the rocky mountains of Greece.
What is olives and grapes?
400
The god of travel, messengers, trade, thievery, cunning wiles, language, writing, diplomacy, athletics, and animal husbandry.
Who is Hermes?
400
Spartans thought that if a boy could do this, he would know how to live off the land during war.
What is learning how to steal?
400
This mathematician developed geometry.
Who is Euclid?
500
The Persian ruler who was defeated by Alexander the Great.
Who is Darius III?
500
Alexander the Great was born in this kingdom.
What is Macedonia?
500
Her symbols include the rose, scallop shell, and myrtle wreath. Her sacred animal is the dove.
Who is Aphrodite?
500
Slaves owned by the city-state of Sparta.
What are helots?
500
The city where Alexander died.
What is Babylon?