What island to the south of Greece is considered to be the cradle of Greek civilization?
Crete
100
Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Homer
100
What political entity was made up of a city and its surrounding countryside?
The polis
100
The Greek word "philosopher" means "lover of" what?
Wisdom
100
The earliest "Greeks" who developed advanced culture on Crete were called what?
Minoans
200
What region across the Aegean Sea from Greece was home to the city of Troy?
Asia Minor
200
Who was Plato's teacher?
Socrates
200
Under what system do citizens take part directly in the day-to-day affairs of the government?
Direct Democracy
200
What is the art of skillful public speaking that was important to Greek philosophers and citizens?
Rhetoric
200
Geography caused early Greeks not to build expansive empires but instead to organize into small city-states. What geographic feature most influenced this?
Mountains (that divided the peninsula into isolated valleys)
300
What city is the modern-day capital of Greece and was one of the most advanced ancient Greek city-states?
Athens
300
Which Macedonian, whose father conquered mainland Greece, continued the conquest and spread Greek culture all the way to India?
Alexander the Great
300
In what city-state did Dorian conquerors settle and turn the conquered people into state-owned slaves called helots?
Sparta
300
What was the name of Aristotle's prescription for how people ought to live, often described as a "moderate course between two extremes"?
The Golden Mean
300
At what city on Crete can one find a vast palace around which early civilization thrived?
Knossos
400
What peninsula makes up most of the southern part of Greece?
The Peloponnesus
400
Which son of Darius sent a large Persian force to attack Greece?
Xerxes
400
What major alliance, named after the location where its meetings took place, was formed after the Greek city-states united to defeat Persia?
The Delian League
400
What system did Plato propose to replace Athenian democracy?
A Republic (led by a philosopher king)
400
What Indo-European people conquered the Greek mainland and then overtook the Minoans on Crete?
The Mycenaeans
500
What sea separates Greece from Italy?
The Adriatic
500
Which ancient Greek historian emphasized the need to avoid bias?
Thucydides
500
Before Athens became a democracy, it embraced which form of government led by a hereditary land-holding elite?
Aristocracy
500
What was the name of the school Aristotle set up for the study of all branches of knowledge? It served as a model for European universities 1500 years later.
The Lyceum
500
Much of what we know about Minoan civilization comes from what type of colorful paintings done on wet plaster?