Philosophy
Geography
War
Contributions
Miscellaneous
100
The author of The Republic.
Who is Plato?
100
The three seas that surround Greece.
What are the Ionian, Aegean, and Mediterranean Seas?
100
The Greeks fought external wars against these people.
Who are the Persians?
100
Purpose of the Olympics.
What is to honor Zeus?
100
The Greek word for City-State.
What is a polis?
200
The definition of philosopher.
What is a lover of wisdom?
200
The reason the Greeks invented the Western Way of War.
What is they needed wars to end quickly so they could return home to farm?
200
An emphasis on war made this gender the dominate group in Ancient Greece.
Who are males?
200
Famous Athenian who invented the earliest geometry textbook.
Who is Euclid?
200
The reason the Greeks create religion (mythology).
What is to explain things they didn't understand?
300
The way philosophers believed one should attain knowledge.
What is through experimentation, learning, etc?
300
3/4 of Greece is covered with these.
What are Mountains?
300
This city-state won the Peloponnesian Wars.
What is Sparta?
300
The Greeks first recognized the existence of this which today can be split to create electricity.
What is an atom?
300
The Athenian leader who strengthened democracy.
Who is Pericles?
400
The way in which Philosophers believed the universe was organized.
What is in an orderly way?
400
The reasons travel was difficult in Ancient Greece.
What is it contained many islands and mountains?
400
The results of the Peloponnesian Wars.
What is Greece was weakened and vulnerable to the invasion of Phillip of Macedon?
400
Although this Greek invention is no longer needed to support buildings structurally, the US uses it on government buildings to honor our connection to Western culture.
What are Greek columns?
400
The belief that we should focus on Human potential and that humans are strong enough to solve their own problems.
What is Humanism?
500
An explanation of the Socratic Method.
What is the idea that people can think for themselves and questioning them will help them form deep, intellectual opinions?
500
Because of the mountains, islands, and very little farmland, the Ancient Greeks relied heavily on this.
What is trade?
500
The results of the Persian Wars.
What is Persia lost, Athens became confident and wanted to build an empire, Athens created the Delian League?
500
The Greeks, NOT CHARLES DARWIN, first suggested this idea about animals/species.
What is evolution?
500
This philosopher taught that one truth follows other truths. For example, if A=B and B=C, then A=C.
Who is Aristotle?