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Greek Geography
Rival States
Classical Greece
Literature, Arts, Philosophy
Alexander
100
This mountain is the highest peak of the Pindus Mountains that divide mainland Greece.
What is Olympus?
100
In Sparta, males spent their childhood learning this.
What was military discipline?
100
This was the first Greek state.
What is Mycenae?
100
His works, The Iliad and The Odyssey, gave the Greeks and ideal past with a cast of heroes.
Who was Homer?
100
His capital city, Alexandria, was built in this country.
What is Egypt?
200
The Ionian, Mediterranean and this sea make up the borders for Greece.
What is the Aegean Sea?
200
In this rival city, Solon cancelled all land debts freed people who had fallen into slavery.
What is Athens?
200
Athenians practiced this to protect people from ambitious politicians.
What is ostracism?
200
In his work, Oedipus Rex, an oracle foretells of a man who is doomed to kill his father and marry his mother.
Who was Sophocles?
200
Once Alexander became the king of Macedonia, he moved quickly to fulfill his father's dream of this.
What was the invasion of Persia?
300
The Bronze Age had been established on this Greek island.
What is Crete?
300
In this rival city, males were given shields and told to come back carrying it, or being carried on it.
What is Sparta?
300
The Athenian economy was largely based on these two professions.
What is farming and trade.
300
His work, History of the Persian Wars, was often seen as the real history of the Western civilization.
Who was Herodotus?
300
Alexander created this new era, meaning "to imitate Greeks."
What is the Hellenistic Era?
400
Because of their geography, it is no accident that the Greeks took up this profession.
What are seafarers?
400
In Athens, democracy flourished under this leader.
Who was Pericles?
400
In classical Greece, the primary function of the family was to do this.
What is produce new citizens?
400
He believed that "the unexamined life is not worth living."
Who was Socrates?
400
During the Hellenistic Era, this philosopher determined the Earth was round.
Who was Eratosthenes?
500
Historians believed that a tidal wave triggered by a volcanic eruption from this Greek island devastated the Minoan civilization.
What is Thera?
500
In this rival city, outsiders were discouraged from visiting.
What is Sparta?
500
After the defeat of the Persians, the Greek world divided into two main camps: The Athenian Empire and this.
What is the Delian League?
500
He taught that happiness resulted from living a life of virtue.
Who was Aristotle?
500
The concept of Stoicism was taught by this Syrian teacher.
Who was Zeno?