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Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
Significant People
Geography
Legacy
100
The name for an era marked by great achievements.
What is a classical age?
100
This person wrote Elements, the basis of modern geometry.
Who is Euclid?
100
Alexander refused to accept the peace settlement from this leader of Persia.
Who is Darius III?
100
On what type of landform is mainland Greece located?
What is a peninsula?
100
This branch of philosophy was founded by Zeno and led to the belief that people should endure pain or hardship without a display of feelings and without complaint.
What is stoicism?
200
Around 1200 B.C., sea raiders attacked and burned many Mycenaean cities. According to tradition, this group of people moved into the war-torn countryside. Their reign is known as Greece's "Dark Age" because they left no written records.
Who are the Dorians?
200
People who had the right to participate in the government and vote in a polis were known as this.
What were citizens?
200
Give one reason that Alexandria was at the center of the spread of Hellenistic civilization.
What are: it had a strategic location for commerce, it had a museum and research library, which was ahead of its time, and it had a rich mix of cultures?
200
What were the two earliest cultural groups to develop in Greece?
Who are the Minoans and the Mycenaeans?
200
This was ancient school of philosophy founded in Athens that advocated hedonism (pleasure as the highest good), but of a restrained kind: mental pleasure was regarded more highly than physical, and the ultimate pleasure was held to be freedom from anxiety and mental pain, especially that arising from needless fear of death and of the gods.
What is Epicureanism?
300
This battle formation of the Spartans formed the most powerful fighting force in the ancient world.
What is a phalanx?
300
Rich, landowning class. Known as the elites.
What is aristocracy or who are aristocrats?
300
This caused the collapse of Athens and the end of its golden age.
What is war/invasion?
300
Explain two geographic advantages of the ancient Greeks.
Various answers.
300
This was a difference between Hellenistic art and classical Greek art.
What is that Hellenistic art is more natural, featured more "every day" subjects, and moved away from idealized forms and perfect bodies?
400
This person warned the Greeks about the Macedonian King Philip and his army.
Who is Demosthenes?
400
This is the term of or relating to Greek history, language, and culture from the death of Alexander the Great to the defeat of Cleopatra and Mark Antony by Octavian in 31 BCE. During this period Greek culture flourished, spreading through the Mediterranean and into the Near East and Asia and centering on Alexandria in Egypt and Turkey.
What is Hellenistic?
400
What was the major cause of Athens' gradual move toward democracy?
What is fear of political turmoil and upheavals?
400
Where did archeologists find the possible remains of the city of Troy?
What is Asia Minor?
400
What is one scientific achievement of the Hellenistic Age?
What are: Astronomers such as Eratosthenes estimated the earth's size, they hypothesized about the motions of the bodies of the solar system, Euclid organized findings of Greek geometry, Archimedes discovered laws of simple machines?
500
This is where the most well-known statue of Hellenistic times is located.
Where is Rhodes?
500
This teacher of Alexander the Great taught him most of what was known in the Greek world at the time.
Who is Aristotle?
500
This person can be compared to Pericles because he contributed to Athenian democracy by outlawing debt slavery and introducing the legal concept that any citizen could bring charges against wrongdoers.
Who is Solon?
500
Name the 3 large bodies of water surrounding ancient Greece.
What are Ionian Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Aegean Sea
500
Homer's epic poem, the _______, tells the story of the final years of the Trojan War and the hero Achillies.
What is the Illiad.