Vocabulary
Famous People
FAMOUS PEOPLE
MISCELLANEOUS
Alexander & the Hellenistic Era
100

A TOWN/VILLAGE AND SURROUNDING COUNTRYSIDE IN ANCIENT GREECE

POLIS

100

GREEK PHILOSOPHER WHO WAS FASCINATED WITH REALITY AND CREATED THREE CLASSES OF PEOPLE

PLATO

100

LEADER OF PERSIA AND CONQUERRED A LARGE AMOUNT OF LAND, HAD SEVERAL CITIES NAMED AFTER HIM AND IS CONSIDERED GREAT AND ALSO A VILLIAN

ALEXANDER

100

IN SPARTA THEY WERE LED BY ___________ KINGS

2

100

WHO DID ALEXANDER IMITATE AS LEADER

ACHILLES

200

HEAVILY ARMED INFANTRY WHO WORE HELMETS, BREASTPALTES,A ND SHIN GUARDS IN GREECE.

HOPLITES

200

GREEK PHILOSOPHER WHO EXAMINED OBJECTS AND CREATED THREE FORMS OF GOVERNMENT

ARISTOTLE

200

DEVELOPED THE IDEA OF GEOMETRY

EUCLID

200

WHAT IS A AGORA?

OPEN SPACE BELOW A HILL

200

WHAT EMPIRE WAS ALEXANDER THE FIRST TO CONQUER?

PERSIA

300

NAME GIVEN TO LACONIANS WHO BECAME FREE INHABITANTS OF SPARTA

PERIOKOI

300

POET IN GREECE WHO WROTE ABOUT THE LOVE OF NATURE

THEOCRITUS

300

DEVELOPED THE STUDY OF SPHERES, CYLINDERS, PI, AND WTHE WATER PUMP

ARCHIMEDES

300

DESCRIBE THE SOCRATIC METHOD?

QUESTION/ANSWER TECHNIQUE TO FIND REASON TO QUESTION AUTHORITY

300

DURING ALEXANDER TIME AND ALSO AFTER HIS TIME AS LEADER, MANY THINGS IMPROVES CULTURALLY.  WHERE COULD ONE SEE CHANGES IN THE EMPIRE? NAME THREE.

ARCHITECTURE, TEMPLES, STATUES, SCULPTURES, SCHOOLING, PARTHENON

400

NAME GIVEN TO LACONIANS WHO WERE BOUND TO THE LAND AND FORCED TO WORK ON FARMS OR AS HOUSEHOLD SERVANTS

HELOTS

400

A GREEK WRITER WHO WROTE ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA AREA

POLYBIUS

400

PHILOSOPHER WHO SAID WE NEED TO FIND HAPPINESS, ABIDE BY GODS LAWS, AND PEOPLE MUST PERFROM PUBLIC SERVICE WORKS.

ZENO

400

WHAT WAS THE ROLE OF THE ASSEMBLY IN SPARTA

MALES WHO VOTED ON ISSUES

400

DURING AND AFTER ALEXANDERS TIME UPPER CLASS WOMEN ROLES EXPANDED.  NAME THREE THINGS THEY COULD NOW DO.

MANAGE SLAVES, MAKE LOANS, SELL PROPERTY, OWN LAND, EDUCATION

500

USED BY PHILOSOPHERS IN GREECE WHO TAUGHT PERSUASIVE SPEAKING AND QUESTIONING WITH NO RIGHT OR WRONG ANSWERS

RHETORIC

500

SCIENTIST WHO CALCULATED THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE EARTH

ERATOSTHENES

500

A GREEK ARISTOCRAT WHO WAS SELECTED TO MAKE CHANGES IN THE GREEK EMPIRE SUCH AS NOT USING HUMAS AS COLLATERAL AND ELIMINATED LAND DEBT

SOLON

500

WHAT HAPPENED TO MALE CHILDREN AT THE FOLLOWING AGES:  INFANCY, 7 & 20

INFANCY= EXAMINED BY DOCTORS

7 = TAKEN FROM FAMILIES 7 TRAINED FOR MILITARY

20 = SERVE IN MILITARY

500

WHAT WAS THE MEANING OF THE HELLENSTIC ERA THAT WAS USHED IN DURING AND AFTER THE TIME OF ALEXANDER?

TO IMITATE THE GREEKS & SPREAD ITS CULTURE TO NON-GREEK AREAS