Greece
The country of Greece is on a kind of land that is surrounded on three sides by water.
What is a peninsula?
The Temple built at Athens was called this
What is the Parthenon?
The Spartans were best at this one activity
What is war?
This leader of Athens started off the Golden Age of Athens.
Who was Pericles?
This was the name of the Macedonian who conquered the Persian empire
Who was Alexander the Great?
What were the Olympics?
The hill atop Athens, which contained all of the temples and government buildings, was called this
What is the acropolis?
Spartan boys would be taken from their mothers to train at this age
What is 7?
This was the Sun god of the Greeks
Who was Apollo?
The father of Alexander who conquered Greece was named this.
Who was Philip?
This person claimed the power to foretell the future
Who was the oracle?
This means "lover of wisdom" in Greek.
What is a philosopher?
This was the most famous king of the Spartans
Who was Leonidas?
A serious Greek play was known as this
What was tragedy?
This is the reason why Alexander did not conquer India
His men wanted to go back home
These are the two poems telling the story of the Trojan War and its aftermath
What are the Illiad and the Odyssey?
Euclid wrote books on this subject
What is geometry?
This leader of the Persians led an army of half a million men to conquer Greece
Who was Xerxes?
This philosopher, who said "I know that I know nothing," was forced to drink poison
Who was Socrates?
This was a great Greek Orator who warned the Greeks against Philip
Who was Demosthenes?
This man advocated for the Athenians to build a strong navy
This three day long battle pitted 300 Spartans against hundreds of thousands of Persians
What was The Battle of Thermopylae?
This was the most important battle of Western history that kicked off the Golden Age of Athens
What was the Battle of Salamis?
Slaves who were called this helped wealthy Athenian boys with their studies.
What are pedagogues?