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Literature
Philosophy
The Gods
Hellenistic Era
Math-Science and History
100
A long poem about heroic deeds
What is an epic?
100
Wrote the Republic, about a society ruled by philosopher kings
Who is Plato?
100
Priest or priestess who could tell the future
What is an oracle?
100
Became King of Macedonia at age 20
Who is Alexander the Great?
100
Taught that the universe was governed by the same laws as music and numbers
Who is Pythagoras?
200
A short tale that teaches a lesson
What is a fable?
200
Way of teaching by asking questions
What is the Socratic Method?
200
Two types of Greek drama used to honor the gods
What are comedies and tragedies?
200
Father of Alexander the Great who was assassinated
Who is Philip II?
200
Mathematics that deals with points, lines, and angles
What is plane geometry?
300
A traditional story about gods and goddesses
What is a myth?
300
Believed happiness came from following reason, not emotion
Who were the Stoics (or Stoicism)?
300
Home of the gods and goddesses
What is Mt. Olympus?
300
A person leaves this behind when he or she dies
What is legacy?
300
The distance around the Earth
What is circumference?
400
The custom if passing along stories by speech
What is oral tradition?
400
Belief that happiness is freedom from fear and pain
What is Epicureanism?
400
Worshiped by the Greeks as their chief god
Who is Zeus?
400
Alexander's empire extended to this river in the east
What is the Indus River?
400
Known as the "Father of Medicine"
Who is Hippocrates?
500
Poet who wrote the Iliad, an epic about the Trojan War
Who was Homer?
500
Philosophers who rejected the idea of absolute right and wrong
Who were the Sophists?
500
Had great powers but looked and acted human
What are gods and goddesses?
500
This city's library housed the "accumulated knowledge" of Greece
What is Alexandria?
500
He is called the "Father of History"
Who is Herodotus?