ruled Athens for over 30 years during a period called the "golden age".
Who is Pericles?
100
type of column which was very plain
What is a doric column?
100
Where the Greek gods lived
What is Mount Olympus?
100
love of wisdom, led to study of history, political science, science and mathematics.
What is philosophy?
100
Father of Alexander the Great
Who was Phillip the II?
200
League of Greek City-states which promised to defend against the Persians
What is the Delian League?
200
type of column with a scroll capital, very elegant
What is an ionic column?
200
People went there to learn about the future, sacred shrine deep within a temple, answers to questions were given in riddles
What is an oracle?
200
developed a theorom which is still used to determine the length of the sides of a triangle.
Who is Pythagoras?
200
city in Egypt named after Alexander which becomes a center for business and trade.
What is Alexandria?
300
System in which people gather at mass meetings to decide on government matters;every citizen can vote on laws.
What is direct democracy?
300
wrote "Elements" about plane geometry
Who is Euclid?
300
Wrote the "Tortoise and the Hare", "the Boy who cried Wolf" and many other famous fables which all had morals which taught lessons.
Who was Aesop?
300
taught the "Socratic Method", asking very pointed questions to get at the truth, sentenced to death for his teachings
Who is Socrates?
300
word that means "like the Greeks" and refers to a time when Greek language and Greek ideas were spread to the non-Greek people of southwest Asia
What is Hellenistic?
400
Name of the war fought between Athens and Sparta
What is the Peloponnesian War?
400
He worked on solid geometry, invented the lever and the catapult.
Who is Archimedes?
400
Homer wrote these two grand epics; one about the Trojan War and the other about the 10 year journey home from the war.
What is the Illiad and the Odyssey?
400
wrote the "Republic". which explained his ideas about government
Who is Plato?
400
taught about the "Golden Mean" to do nothing in excess, too much of anything is not good
Who was Aristotle?
500
All major city states were weakened
Many people died in the war
Many farms were destroyed
Thousands of people left without jobs
Greek city-states would never be strong again
What were the effects of the Peloponnesian War?
500
Wrote the "Argonautica" about Jason and the Argonauts.
Who is Appolonius of Rhodes?
500
Wrote plays with three actors, painted scenes and wrote both Oedipus Rex and Antigone.
Who is Sophocles?
500
The two Greek historians who paved the way for future generations of historians by chronicling important events.
Who were Herodotus and Thucydides?
500
after his death, Alexander's empire was divided into how many kingdoms and name one
What is four kingdoms? Egyptian, Macedonian, Pergamum and Seleucid Kingdoms