Peeps
This guy was the son of Philip II.
He conquered the Persian Empire as well as many other countries as far east as Pakistan
Alexander the Great
A short tale that teaches a lesson. Each fable ends with a message, or a moral
Fable
These people study the stars, planets and other heavenly bodies
Astronomers
The Greeks thought that ____________ controlled nature and shaped their lives
gods and goddesses
Greek _________ and __________ taught Greek values
poetry and fables
A great philosopher who is only known through his students' writings. He believed that all real knowledge was inside each human. He asked pointed questions to force his pupils to use their reason and to see things for themselves.
Socrates
What is the name for Greek, professional, traveling teachers?
Sophists
The earliest Greek stories, in the form of long poems, that told about heroic deeds.
Epic
This mans legacy is that he spread Greek culture and ideas and extended Greek and Macedonian rule over a vast region. These marked the beginning of the Hellenistic Era.
Alexander the Great
This man is known as the "father of medicine" and was the first to write a medical code of good behavior
Hippocrates
Wrote 200+ books and he thought that the best government is a blend of oligarchy and democracy. Developed the idea of "the golden mean"
Aristotle
This word comes from the Greek work "love of wisdom"
Philosophy
What is the name of the man who, with sticks and shadows, figured out that the earth is round?
Erastosthenes
What is the name of the philosophy that taught that happiness was the goal of life, and to be happy was to seek out pleasure
Epicureanism
What is the name of the highest mountain in Greece where the 12 most important gods lived?
Mount Olympus
He taught that the universe followed the same laws that governed music and numbers and that all relationships in the world could be expressed in numbers. He created the Pythagorean Theorem, which determines the length and sides of a right triangle.
Pythagoras
What do we call what a person leaves behind when he or she dies?
Legacy
What is the country north of Greece that we have studied?
Macedonia
Name at least two contributions that the Greeks made to our western civilization
Must include at least two of the following:
Architecture and sculpture, literature, theater, philosophies, advances in medicine and mathematics
This era was the period of time when Greek language and ideas spread to southwest Asia and further. The cities became centers of learning and culture.
Hellenistic Era
This guy is known as the "father of history" and is the first known person to record events as they happened, with facts
Herodotus
What does "Hellenistic" mean?
"Like the Greeks"
Archimedes
A philosophy developed by Zeno that taught happiness came from doing your duty and following reason, not emotions.
Stoicism
This man was the king of Macedonia and wanted to defeat the Persian Empire by uniting with the Greek city-states
Philip II