Religion
Culture
Philosophers
War
Hellenism
100
Classification for non-Greek religions that originated in the East.
What were Mystery Religions?
100
Type of architectural style for column design on buildings.
What was Corinthian Column?
100
Founder of Western Philosophy he drank Hemlock because of questioning traditions.
Who was Socretes?
100
The Greek fighting formation using the Hoplites.
What was the phalanx?
100
First battle in Asia Minor that Alexander defeated the Persians in 334 BC.
What was Granicus?
200
He was the chief god in Greek mythology.
Who was Zeus?
200
Greek play writer that used realism.
Who was Euripides?
200
The traveling teachers using rhetoric and persuasion for audiences.
Who were the Sophists?
200
New Greek warship used in several naval battles.
What was the Trireme?
200
He invented the water screw for irrigation purposes.
Who was Archimedes?
300
Location for the famous oracle that honored the Greek god Apollo.
Where was Delphi?
300
Greek historian that revealed biases in understanding one's history.
Who was Herodotus?
300
Alexander the Great's teacher and the developer of scientific observation.
Who was Aristotle?
300
Famous battle in the Greco-Persian War involving Leonidas and his Spartans.
What was Thermopylae?
300
Syrian merchant Zeno rejected materialism in favor of public service as a new philosophy.
What was Stoicism?
400
Known as the Goddess of Wisdom.
Who was Athena?
400
Thucydides wrote about this long tragic war in Greek history.
What was the Peloponnesian War?
400
Plato favored this type of government above other forms.
What is a republic?
400
This Greek victory against the Persians led to a runner reporting the results of the battle.
What was Marathon?
400
Hellenistic philosophy emphasizing happiness found in the pursuit of pleasures.
What was Epicureanism?
500
Famous mountain for the home of the Greek gods.
Where was Mt. Olympus?
500
Ancient games that promoted peace among the city states of Greece.
What were the Olympics?
500
Pythagora's theory about the universe was associated with this area of learning.
What is mathematics?
500
Besides a civil war it had another notoriety due to millions of deaths.
What was a war of attrition?
500
Egyptian city that had the famous library and most popular on the Mediterranean.
Where was Alexandria?