The leader of Persia in 499 BC when the Greeks burned Sardis, the western capital of Persia.
Who was Darius I
100
This playwright is known as the master of Greek comedies.
Who was Aristophanes
100
After the beginning of the Persian Wars, Athens and about 150 other Greek city-states formed an alliance named this.
What is the Delian League
100
Athens’ desire for even greater wealth and power alarmed Sparta and led to this war, which began in 460 B.C.
What is Peloponnesian War
100
The period between 479BC and 431 BC when the Athenians received lots of tributes from other nations, which Pericles used to make Athens a center for architecture, the arts, and learning.
What is The Golden Age
200
This Greek doctor was believed that illnesses had natural not supernatural causes and that doctor’s need to find and treat the cause of an illness.
Who was Hippocrates
200
In 480 B.C. this son of Darius and new emperor led 200,000 soldiers and more than 600 to conquer the Greek territory and almost succeeded.
Who is Xerxes
200
Corinth, Athens, and Argos, were among the city-states that joined to form this alliance in 375BC.
What is the Corinthian Alliance
200
The Spartan led victory in the Battle of Plataea on land and the Athenian victory at sea in this battle, led to the retreat of the Persian army. The outnumbered Athenian navy engaged the Persian navy in a narrow straight where their larger ships could not maneuver well and rammed and sank more than 200 of the Persian ships.
What is the Battle of Salamis
200
In this type of democracy, every free Athenian over the age of 18 an equal vote in the assembly.
What is direct democracy
300
This Greek Mathematician found a way to express the relationship among the sides of a right triangle.
Who was Pythagoras
300
This woman was one of the first women to become a well-respected philosopher and mathematician. It is believed that Cyril, the head of the Christian Church in Alexandria, led the mob that ended up killing her.
Who was Hypathia
300
After defeating the Greeks Philip wanted to unite them, so he formed this group which he controlled. All members would promise to support him and agree to not fight with any other member states in return for the protection of this group. All major city-states except Sparta signed on.
What is the League of Corinth
300
This treaty between the Athenians and Spartans did not last 30 years as anticipated.
What is The Thirty Years' Peace
300
This temple to Athena on the Athenian Acropolis contained more than 22,000 tons of marble.
What is the Parthenon
400
This student and teacher of astronomy, law, economics, botany, and zoology opened his own school called the Lyceum. He later became a teacher to the son of Philip II of Macedonia, a boy who became Alexander the Great.
Who was Aristotle
400
This Greek astronomer from the island of Samos used mathematics to discover that the earth rotates and travels in path around the sun.
Who was Aristarchus
400
Sparta and 70 other city-states allied with Thebes to finally defeat Sparta in this year.
What is 371 B.C.
400
King Philip II’s army defeated the Greek soldiers at the Battle of Chaeronea in this year to claim control over the Greek city-states.
What is 338 B.C.
400
A type of democracy, like that in the United States of America, where people are elected to speak on behalf of their constituents.
What is representative democracy
500
Fourteen years after the peace treaty had been signed, war broke out again. Near the end of the war the Spartans attacked the area surrounding Athens called Attica. This forced people to flee into Athens, which then became crowded and unsanitary. This led to a plague that killed this great leader of Athens and brought about the end of the Golden Age.
Who was Pericles.
500
Alexander fell ill with a fever in Babylon while planning further conquests in this year.
What was 232 BC
500
In the 400s B.C. the warring Greek city-states united to face this nation which was a common foe.
What is Persia
500
After defeating them in war Sparta replaced Athens’ democracy with this type of government, which was ruled by an oligarchy called the Thirty Tyrants.
What is a dictatorship.
500
Sophocles was one of the most famous Greek playwrights. He wrote this type of serious plays with unhappy endings, some of which are still performed today.