Greek Civilization
The basic political unit of Greece
What is a City-State?
Sophocles wrote these kinds of Greek dramas.
What are Tragedies?
This battle was a decisive victory for the Greeks and inspired a running event.
What is the battle of Marathon?
This type of government means "rule by few".
What is Oligarchy?
The Father of Medicine and the namesake for the Hippocratic Oath.
Who is Hippocrates?
This Philosopher and Mathematician believed the universe could be explained with math. A2+B2=C2
Who is Pythagoras?
In 2-3 Sentences, give some of the differences between Athens and Sparta.
Sparta was associated with militarism, isolation, oligarchy, and the glorification of the state. Athens nurtured creativity, commercial endeavors, democracy, and individualism.
This City state was the leader of the Delian League and emphasized arts and culture.
What is Athens?
Aristophanes wrote these kinds of Greek dramas.
What are Comedies?
This Persian king led attacks against the Greeks at Salamis Bay and Thermopylae.
Who is Xerxes?
This building was built in honor of this goddess, the daughter of Zeus.
Who is Athena?
He was the Father of Geometry.
Who is Euclid?
He is known as the Father of History and also known for embellishing his writings.
Who is Herodotus?
This city-state was across the Peloponnesian Peninsula from its rival and was a strict Military state
What is Sparta?
This blind poet was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Who was Homer?
This league was formed by Sparta to protect from foreign invasion and tyranny from within.
What is the Peloponessian League?
The Olympic games were created in honor of this god.
Who is Zeus?
This Philosopher tutored Alexander the Great and invented the Syllogism.
Who is Aristotle?
This Greek philosopher is famous for the saying "Know Thyself" and was murdered by Athenians for rebelling against traditional beliefs.
Who is Socrates?
The earliest Greek Civilizations, this civilization flourished on the island of Crete and even had indoor plumbing in their palace at Knossos.
Who are the Minoans?
Doric, Ionian, and Corinthian represent the orders of this art medium.
What is Architecture?
This Persian King was defeated at the hands of Alexander the Great.
Who is Darius III?
Greece moved through all three of these types of government.
What is Monarchy, Oligarchy, and Democracy?
He was the Author of The Republic and believed that too much democracy would descend into anarchy.
Who was Plato?
This man was a well known astronomer and geographer and is responsible for inventing longitude and latitude.
Who is Eratosthenes?
This Early greek Civilization became the commercial center of the Aegean region
Who are the Mycenaeans?
This term means "Like the Greek"
What is Hellenistic?
This was the number of Spartans left to defend the mountain pass at the battle of Thermopylae.
What is 300?
This is another name for the chief magistrate in Athens.
What is an Archon?
This historian was more accurate than his contemporaries and wrote The History of the Peloponnesian War.
Who is Thucydides?
He was the Father of Philosophy.
Who is Thales of Miletus?