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Greek Civilization
World History Chapter 8 Study Guide on Greek Civilization
| Answer | Question |
|---|---|
| religious | Through mythology, the Greek people expressed their__________ beliefs. |
| Homer | This Greek poet wrote several epic poems about heroic deeds, including the Iliad. |
| comedy and tragedy | What are the two types of drama that the Greeks performed at religious festivals? |
| Sophocles | The three best-known dramatists who wrote Greek tragedies were Aeschylus, Euripides, and |
| Ionic | The three types of columns the Greeks used in their buildings were Doric, Corinthian, and |
| epic | a long poem about heroic deeds |
| fable | a short tale that teaches a lesson |
| oracle | a priest or priestess who could tell the future |
| myth | a traditional story about gods and goddesses |
| oral tradition | the custom of passing along stories by speech |
| Pythagoras | This philosopher taught that the universe was governed by the same laws as music and numbers. |
| philosophy | This word means "love of wisdom" |
| Aristotle | After he compared 158 governments to find the best one, who wrote the book Politics? |
| Herodotus | Who is considered to be the “father of history”? |
| Plato | student of Socrates who wrote the Republic |
| philosophers | thinkers who created new bodies of knowledge through teaching subjects such as history, political science, biology, and logic |
| Thucydides | considered to be the greatest historian of the ancient world |
| Sophist | a traveling professional teacher |
| Socratic Method | a way of teaching by asking questions that is still used today |
| Demosthenes | Which public speaker said that the Macedonian king Philip II was considered a threat to Greek freedom? |
| Granicus | Alexander and his army of 40,000 Greek and Macedonian soldiers, including cavalry units, defeated an army of Persians in modern-day northwestern Turkey in the Battle of |
| Darius III | Alexander’s main enemy, the king of the Persians, was |
| fought | After his death, Alexander’s empire fell apart because his generals did this. |
| Greek | In Hellenistic kingdoms, government business was conducted in which language? |
| Hellenistic Era | a time when Greek ideas spread to non-Greek people |
| Alexander the Great | became king of Macedonia at age 20 |
| Phillip II | Macedonian admirer of Greek ideas who planned to conquer Persia |
| Alexandria | founded by Alexander in Egypt |
| legacy | what a person leaves behind when he or she dies |
| library | Alexandria was the Greek capital of Egypt, and was most famous among scholars for its |
| Alexandria | Hellenistic kings wanted which city to serve as a cultural model for all other cities? |
| Hippocrates | Who is known as “the father of medicine”? |
| Aristarchus | The Greek scientist who concluded that the sun is the center of the solar system, and that the Earth revolves around the Sun, was |
| pi | Archimedes, a scientist, mathematician, and inventor, is best known in the field of mathematics for this |
| Eratosthenes | the astronomer who concluded that Earth is round |
| Stoicism | Happiness comes from doing your duty and following reason, not emotion. |
| plane geometry | a type of mathematics that relates points, lines, surfaces, and angles to one another |
| solid geometry | a type of mathematics that deals with spheres and cylinders |
| Epicureanism | Happiness through moderate pleasure and freedom from fear and pain is the goal of life. |
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