This city-state's Golden Age saw unprecedented activity in the arts, intellect, and architecture.
What is Athens?
100
He maintained balance in the universe, allowing life on earth to exist.
Who is Zeus?
100
Greek term for the pursuit of excellence.
What is "arete?"
100
This quadrennial event combined religion and athletics.
What are the Olympics?
100
Half bull, half man who trapped sacrificial humans in a maze
What is the Minotaur?
200
This city-state declared war on Athens because it abused its Delian power.
What is Sparta?
200
His oracle at Delphi was often a character in works of Greek drama.
Who is Apollo?
200
Cynics today say you win them with money; Athenians won them by lottery.
What is election?
200
Deucalion's Mesopotamian parallel.
Who is Utnapishtim?
200
The last great accomplishment of the Mycenaean Empire.
What is the sacking of Troy?
300
Greek name for the independent city-states.
What is "polis?"
300
Home to the Greek gods and goddesses.
What is Mount Olympus?
300
Different customs, political constitutions, and dialects fostered this condition among the Greek city-states.
What is rivalry or war?
300
Invaders to whom some historians attribute the Dark Age of Greece
Who are the Dorians?
400
Crete was the island home to this civilization's seat of power.
What is the Minoan Civilization?
400
The Parthenon was her primary shrine in the city-state named for this goddess.
Who is Athene?
400
The leading statesman of Athens' Golden Age.
Who is Pericles?
400
Nike and Adidas would have had little cache among Greek athletes, who performed in this state.
What is nude?
400
This syllabic script proved to be a primitive form of modern Greek.
What is Linear B?
500
Sparta's defeat of Athens in the Peloppenesian War led to the rise of this city-state.
What is Mycenae?
500
Gods would never impose a fate inconsistent with a person’s character.
What is Divine Causality?
500
Established as a defensive arrangement of city-states on equal terms, Athens' domination of this alliance proved it was anything but a voluntary alliance of equals.
What is the Delian League?
500
Man who was believed the survivor of a world-wide flood; Hellen’s father.
Who is Deucalion?
500
Modern theories attribute the 300-year disappearance of Greek written records to either of these two natural disasters.