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Alexander the Great
100
The Greeks defeated the Persian navy in a sea battle here.
What is the strait of Salamis.
100
Conquered the Persian empire and Egypt.
Who is Alexander?
100
This city state practiced direct democracy.
What is Athens?
100
This Greek warship had three rows of oars for speed and a battering ram for combat.
What is the trireme?
100
This one eyed Macedonian king conquered the Greek city states.
Who is Philip II?
200
The league formed by the Greek city states to fend off the Persians.
What is the Delian League?
200
Philosopher who thought that society should be governed by a philosopher king.
Who is Plato and/or Socrates?
200
This form of government is rule by one king who usually was born into his position.
What is a monarchy?
200
Philip of Macedon improved the Greek phalanx method of warfare by adding this.
What is the cerissa, or extra long pike.
200
This was a blend of Greek, Persian, Egyptian and Indian cultures.
What is Hellenism?
300
Sparta and her allies formed this league to stand against Athens.
What is the Peloponnesian League?
300
This philosopher thought government should have three branches.
Who is Aristotle?
300
Rule by a small group of landowning nobles.
What is aristocracy?
300
This allowed Macedonian soldier to fire their weapons much farther than the traditional bow.
What is the stomach crowwbow?
300
Alexander's horse.
Who is Bucephalus?
400
For the first time, he Greeks defeated the Persians in a land battle here.
What is Marathon?
400
The ruler of Athens who saw the need to buil a navy.
What is Themistocles?
400
Used in Sparta, society was ruler by a wealthy, powerful elite.
What is an oligarchy?
400
This weapon used the stored tension of twisted sinew to fire weapons up to one quarter of a mile.
What is the torsion catapult?
400
When this city state rebelled, Alexander burned it down (except, of course, the home of the poet Pindar!)
What is Thebes?
500
The Spartans held off the invading Persians at this narrow mountain pass in Northern Greece.
What is Thermopolae?
500
Ruled over Athens during its Golden Age.
Who is Pericles?
500
A form of government in which leadership is taken by force.
What is tyranny?
500
What did Alexander's engineers design to breach the walls at Tyre?
What is a seige tower?
500
Alexander needed to conquer Egypt because they had and abundance of this.
What is wheat.