Government
Important People
Important People II
Social Stuff
Who Did What?
100
Form of government ruled by a king or queen.
Monarchy
100
I wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Homer
100
I was defeated by Alexander the Great as he conquered persia.
Darius III
100
The basic political organization of Ancient Greece, made up of a city and its surrounding area.
Polis
100
I calculated the value of pi.
Archimedes
200
Form of government where people are the governing body, either themselves or through representatives.
Democracy
200
I studied at Plato's Academy and would eventually be the tutor of Alexander the Great.
Aristotle
200
I was the Persian leader who destroyed the Spartans at Thermopylae.
Xerxes
200
This was the blending of Greek, Persian, Indian, and Egyptian culture into a hybrid that spread around the know world.
Hellenistic culture, or, Hellenization
200
I wrote a book called Elements that contained 465 geometric proofs.
Euclid
300
Although seen as a negative today, in Ancient greece this person was a much loved ruler who looked out for the common man.
Tyrant
300
I wanted to conquer the known world.... and I did.
Alexander the Great
300
I was the king of Macedonia and father of Alexander the Great.
Phillip II
300
The Ancient Greek equivelant of a tank. It was a fighting formation that decimated all opponents.
Phalanx
300
I say that the gods want nothing to do with us and the true meaning of life is to livve virtuously and avoid pain.
Epicurus
400
Form of government where the nobility rule society.
Aristocracy
400
I traveled around talking and arguing with people, the center of my philosophy can be summed up by ...."dust, wind, dude!"
Socrates, dude!
400
I developed the plan that would make Athens great and usher in the Athenian Golden Age.
Pericles
400
These people were the bottom class of Spartan society and were little better than slaves.
Helot
400
First to develop idea that the Earth revolves around the Sun.
Aristarchus
500
Form of government where a small group of people rule based on their wealth or social position.
Oligarchy
500
I wrote a book called the Republic, it focussed on how to run a Utopian Society.
Plato
500
Under my legal reforms, the rich and poor were considered equal and anyone breaking the code would be punished, most likely by death.
Draco
500
The alliance of multiple Greek City-States into an organization that was able to push Persia from Greece. It was the first time anything like this had happened.
Delian League
500
Estimated the circumfrance of the Earth at around 28-29,000 miles.
Eratosthenes