The Ancient Greeks are known for these two types of drama.
What are comedy and tragedy?
100
This teaching method encourages students to ask and answer questions in order to discover truth for themselves.
What is the Socratic Method?
100
The northern neighbor of Greece and the homeland of Philip II and Alexander the Great.
What is Macedonia?
100
Alexander conquered the land as far east as this modern country.
What is Pakistan?
100
This Greek mathematician and philosopher taught that the universe followed the same rules as music and numbers.
Who is Pythagoras?
200
These traditional stories about Greek gods and goddesses were very important in Greek religious traditions.
What are myths?
200
The English meaning of the word, "Philosophy".
What is "love of wisdom"?
200
Considered to be the home of the Greek gods, including Zeus, the King of the gods.
What is Mount Olympus?
200
Philip II was able to take over Greece using these three techniques.
What is conquering, inviting and bribing?
200
This Greek doctor is known for his oath, still taken by today's doctors, that vows to do no harm to patients. He believed that illness came from natural causes - not from the gods.
Who is Hippocrates?
300
The time in Greek history noted for the advancement of art, architecture, philosophy and literature.
What is the Golden Age of Greece?
300
A student of Socrates, this philosopher wrote down both Socrates' and his own ideas.
Who is Plato?
300
This ancient empire was eventually conquered by Alexander the Great.
What is the Persian Empire?
300
After Alexander's death, in-fighting among these military leaders caused the empire to fall apart.
Who were generals?
300
This branch of mathematics deals with the relationship of points, lines, angles, and surfaces on a plane.
What is plane geometry?
400
This historian is considered to be the greatest historian of the ancient world.
Who was Thucydides?
400
Unlike Stoicism, this philosophy encouraged its followers to seek physical pleasures such as good food or comfortable surroundings.
What is Epicureanism?
400
Cities around the Mediterranean Sea that grew during the period of Greek rule, conducting all government business in the Greek language.
What are Hellenistic Cities?
400
This kind of military force gave Alexander an advantage in his battles.
What is a cavalry?
400
This Greek inventor and mathematician used his knowledge of physics to invent such technologies as machinery, catapults and other weapons. He is also credited with calculating the value of "Pi".
Who is Archimedes?
500
This historian, known for his "History of the Persian Wars", is said to be the father of history.
Who is Herodotus?
500
This Ancient Greek philosopher had the greatest effect on modern democracy with his idea that the ideal government should combine elements of monarchy, oligarchy and democracy.
Who is Aristotle?
500
This ancient Hellenistic City in Egypt was known for its vast library.
What is Alexandria?
500
This Greek city-state, conquered by Philip II, was named after the Greek goddess of wisdom.
What is Athens?
500
More than 700 years after the Hellenistic period, this Alexandrian mathematician, a woman, studied Greek philosophy and mathematics, proving that Greek culture had survived long after Greek rule.