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Chapter 5:part 1
Greek gods and important people
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Homer | poet who wrote the Iliad and the opyssey |
| Darius I | king of persia who declared war on the Greeks for trespassing |
| Herodotus | first history writer who was not factual |
| Plato | philosopher who built a school called the academy and wrote the republic |
| Leonidas | king of sparta who died in the battle of thermopylae |
| Euclid | father of geometry |
| Archimedes | Greek who calculated the value of pi and invented the lever and the pulley |
| Pericles | Ruler of Athens who ordered the parthenon to be built and began a 3 branch government |
| Philip II | King of Macedonia who conquered the greek city-states |
| Militiades | Greek leader who won the battle of marathon |
| socrates | philosopher who taught by asking questions |
| myron | greek sculptor known for the state called the "Discus THrower." |
| thucydides | factual historian known for book titled the history of the peloponnesian wars |
| alexander | king of macedonia who had an empire larger than theat of the persians |
| solon | athenian ruler who began its lawmaking body called the assembly |
| draco | athenian ruler who began a harsh law code to lower the crime rate |
| themistocles | athenian admiral who defeated the persians in a naval battle called the battle of salamis |
| xerxes | king of persia who was defeated by the greeks in the persian wars |
| eratosthenes | greek who calculated the circumference of the globe |
| aristotle | philosopher who used logic and reason to teach and said "you learn by doing." |
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