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A story about Gods, such as the stories created by the Greeks to understand nature and human passions.
What is a myth?
100
A pupil of Aristotle, he conquered lands from Greece to the Indus Valley from 336 to 306 BC.
Who is Alexander the Great?
100
The main political unit in Greece; it is composed of a city-state and its surrounding countryside.
What is a polis?
100
A fortified hilltop in the Greek city-states where Greek citizens could gather to discuss city government.
What is the acropolis?
100
The legendary ten-year war fought by the Mycenaeans against the Troy during the 1200s BC.
What is the Trojan War?
200
The Greek Philosopher who summarized most knowledge up to his time and developed a type of logical argument.
Who is Aristotle
200
The Greek Philosopher who summarized most knowledge up to his time and developed a type of logical argument.
Who is Aristotle?
200
Government in which citizens participate directly in political decision making without representatives.
What is a direct democracy?
200
A Greek lover of wisdom who is determined to seek the truth.
What is a philosopher?
200
The wars between Greece and Persia that lasted from 490 to 479 BC.
What are the Persian Wars?
300
Its standards come from the values of harmony, order balance and proportion used by Greek sculptors
What is classical art?
300
The blind storyteller who composed The Iliad and other epics between 750-700 BC.
Who is Homer?
300
A form of government in which a king rules, usually inheriting the throne from a relative.
What is a monarchy?
300
It was the headqaurters of the Delian League.
What is Athens?
300
The war between Sparta and Athens (431-404 BC) that ended Athenian empire, wealth and power.
What is the Pelopennesian war?
400
A term for the blend of Greek, Egyptian, Persian and Indian culture that emerged from Alexander's conquests.
What is Hellenistic?
400
He developed a question and answer approach to teaching, and believed in absolute standards for truth and justice.
Who is Socrates?
400
A government ruled by a small group of noble, landowning families.
What is aristocracy?
400
Peasants who were forced to stay on the land they worked, such as Messenians under Sparta.
Who are helots?
400
a battle formation in which foot soldiers stand side by side, holding overlapping spears and shields.
What is a phalanx?
500
A narrative poem that celebrates heroic deeds.
What is epic?
500
A wealthy student of Aristotle who became a philosopher and founded (387 BC) of a school called the Academy that lasted for 900 years.
Who is Plato?
500
A government ruled by a few wealthy and powerful people.
What is an oligarchy?
500
The number of continents that Alexander's Empire extended across.
What is three? Greece in west andMacedonia in north (Europe), India in east (Asia), Egypt in south (Africa)
500
This building stood intact until 1687 when it suffered a massive explosion that destroyed most of its interior.
What is the Parthenon?