Show:
Important Events
Greece
Random Stuff
Athens
Vocabulary
100
This is the name of the famous war between Athens and Sparta.
What is the Peloponessian War?
100
These are the two famous works by the great poet Homer
What are the Iliad and the Odyssey?
100
Hellenistic culture was a blend of these cultures.
What are Greek, Persian, Indian, and Egyptian?
100
This was the military focus of most of Athens' great history.
What is the navy?
100
This is the term for someone who seizes power of a polis.
What is a tyrant?
200
This war led to the creation of the Delian League (led by Athens).
What is The Persian War?
200
This ancient Wonder was located in Rhodes.
What is the Colossus?
200
This city was the center of Hellenistic culture (and named after its Great founder).
What is Alexandria?
200
The Parthenon was built for this Greek god.
Who is Athena?
200
This is the Greek word for "city-state on the hill."
What is acropolis?
300
This famous Athenian was Alexander the Great's tutor (who many suspect taught Alexander his hate for Persians).
Who is Aristotle?
300
This city-state was famous for its stoic lifestyle.
What is Sparta?
300
This was the first name of one great, and one not-so-great Persian king.
What is Darius?
300
Greek dramas were classified as either of these two types.
What is comedy or tragedy?
400
This Greek city-state joined forces with Macedonia to conquer Greece.
What is Thebes?
400
This city-state was famous for being epicurean in nature.
What is Athens?
400
This is the largest legacy of Alexander's reign.
What is Hellenistic culture?
400
There were the three famous philosophers of Athens.
Who are Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle?
400
This was the name of Euclid's famous book on geometry.
What is The Elements?
500
These three important geographical features heavily influenced Greek culture.
What are the sea, the land, and the climate?
500
This Greek philosophy believed that desire, wealth, and power were dangerous distractions.
What is Stoicism?
500
These are the three goals of Pericles?
What is strengthen Athenian democracy, beautiful Athens, and expand Athens' empire?
500
This form of government could be described as a perverse form of aristocracy.
What is an oligarchy?