Astronomy
The reason Greeks studied Astronomy.
What is to please the gods and predict the future?
The man who proved the Earth is a sphere.
Who is Aristotle?
Plants were used in this for your health.
What is medicine?
They were originally performed to honor the gods.
What are the Olympics?
The Greek meaning of architecture.
What is 'master builder'?
Aristarchus suggested this radical idea that upset many Greeks.
What is the idea that the earth goes around the sun?
Because of me, you know where you are in the world!
Who was Herodotus?
Greeks studied the natural world, plants and their parts using this relationship.
What is cause and effect?
The reason the first Olympic games were held in 776 BCE.
What is to honor Zeus?
Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian.
WHat are the 3 main orders/styles of Greek architecture?
You might buy a star and name it yours, but I named 850 of them first.
Who was Hipparchus?
Ptolemy listed the names of 8,000 places in this.
What is the book titled Geographia?
Plants give us oxygen, shelter, medicine, and food. The Greeks discovered that they also produce these.
What are seeds?
The original 5 contests included in the Pentathlon.
What are footraces, discus throw, long lump, javelin throw and wrestling?
The word that names the distance a Greek Olympiad had to run in a footrace.
What is 'Stadium'?
Erasthenes, the great librarian who first measured the earth's circumference pretty accurately, also did this.
What is measure the distance from earth to the sun and moon? OR determine the curve of the earth's surface?
The Roman military used Greek maps to good use.
What is 'to expand their empire'?
Biologists today use his system of grouping different species of plants and animals.
Who was Aristotle?
They had to stay home and miss all the fun of the Games.
Who were married women?
These 2 main government buildings in the US today are fashioned after Greek Architecture.
What are the US Capitol and The Supreme Court buildings?
This is how Eratosthenes measured the Earth's circumference.
What is putting 2 sticks in the ground and measuring their shadows?
The circumference of this was measured pretty accurately.
What is the equater?
Fewer events, always held in Olympia, only free men who spoke Greek could participate.
How were the ancient Olympics different from modern games?
The most fancy of the orders not even used in ancient Greek buildings.
What is Corinthian?