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A ruler named ______ created the Persian Empire.
Cyrus the Great
A ______ was a group of soldiers that stood in a square to fight.
phalanx
In the ______ two city-states fought against each other.
The greatest medical scholar ______ taught people by asking them questions.
Hippocrates
______ was the first civilization that started speaking the Greek language.
Mycenaean
Greek-like
Hellenistic
Stories about gods and heroes that try to explain how the world works.
Mythology
An agreement to work together
Alliance
People who believed in the power of the human mind to think, explain, and understand life.
Philosopher
Strong fortress on a high hill
Acropolis
Who was Cleisthenes?
Father of democracy
Who was Pericles?
Pericles worked on reforming the Athenian democracy. He introduced new laws and ideas. One law was that people who served on a jury would be paid.
Who was Darius I?
Persian king who brought many improvements.
Who was Euclid?
Greek mathematician.
Who was Alexander the Great?
King of Ancient Macedonia known to be one of the greatest military generals that expanded his empire.
How did the cultures that Alexander conquered change after his death?
They kept some of their own customs and combined other customs with Greek ideas to create a new culture: Hellenistic.
What did the Minoans and Mycenaeans have in common?
They traded around Mediterranean, and ended partly because of volcanic activity.
How did the concept of the polis affect the growth of Greek colonies?
The polis made people feel safe, so they were free to focus on activities like colonization and trade.
What did ancient Greek philosophers Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle want to find out?
How the human mind works, how individuals live and make decisions about behavior.
What are some of the topics that appear in ancient Greek literature, such as the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Heroism
Adventure
Challenges
Courage
Mortal/Immortal Beings
Create a cause and effect chart of Ancient Greece's geography. List at least four.
1. Mountainous --- Isolates Greeks/City-States
2. Surrounded by seas --- Creates trade
3. Rocky soil --- Difficult farming
4. Peninsula --- Source of food and economy
5. Mountains --- Protection
Create a chart of Persian Wars and Peloponnesian War. Who was involved? Why did it begin? Who won?
Peloponnesian Wars: Athens and Sparta. Sparta was unhappy with Athens' growing powers. Sparta.
Compare and contrast the three types of government.
Oligarchy
Tyranny
Democracy
Compare and contrast representative democracy and direct democracy.
Direct Democracy: A type of democracy in which the power to govern lies directly in the hands of the people rather than being exercised through their representatives.
Representative democracy: A type of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people.
Similar: Both, in direct and representative democracy, citizens have to express their opinion/vote. Therefore, a voting system has to be used.
Arts
Architecture
Medicine
Math
Literature