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Ancient Greece
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Protector of the kingdom: Persian States | Satraps |
| Thinker who seeks wisdom and ponder questions about life | Philosophers |
| Enforce laws and collect taxes in sparta | Ephors |
| Form of government used by spartans | Oligarchy |
| Like a tiny, independent country | Polis |
| Open area used for a meeting place and a market | Agora |
| Focused on government and education | Athens |
| Age of creativity and learning in Athens | Age of Pericles |
| Rules with full authority | Tyrant |
| King of Persia | Cyrus the Great |
| Ordinary citizens in the army | Hoplites |
| Workers hauled 20,000 tons of marble and took 15 years to build | Perthenon |
| A body of land with water on three sides | Peninsula |
| Could not leave home without a male relative | Upper class Athenian women |
| A narrow body of water with land on both sides | Straight |
| Became popular by giving land to landless farmers | Peisistrus |
| Why did Xerxes want to conquer Greece | To increase his country's wealth, to win glory, and for revenge |
| What did the Mycenaean learn from the Minoans | Navigation by the sun and stars |
| How did the early Greeks survive | Fishing, trading, and herding goats and sheep |
| Who could be citizens of Greek city-states | Free, native born, land owning men |
| Who wrote the history of the Persian wars | Herodotus |
| Where did the Mycenaeans come to Greece from | The Mycenaeans came from Central Asia |
| In a direct democracy who decides government matters | All the people |
| Xerxes was a king of | Persia |
| Why did the Spartans place so much stress on military service | The Spartans placed so much stress on military service because they were afraid that the Helots might rebel someday. |
| Dramatist who used painted scenery and three actors to tell a story | Sophocles |
| Highest mountain in Greece | Mount Olympus |
| Chief god of the Greeks | Zues |
| Dramatist who questioned traditional thinking about war | Euripedes |
| Wrote plays that poked fun at politicians and encouraged the audience to think | Aristophanes |
| How did the Greeks favor their gods and goddesses | Performed rituals |
| Goddess of wisdom | Athena |
| Odyssey | Homer |
| A traditional story that explains the practices or beliefs of a people, or something in the natural world | Myth |
| Words or action that are part of a religious ceremony | Ritual |
| A sacred shrine where a priest or priestess spoke for a god or goddess | Oracle |
| A story meant to teach a lesson | Fable |
| The custom of passing along stories by speech | Oral tradition |
| A story written in the form of a play | Drama |
| A play or film in which characters fail to overcome serious problems | Tragedy |
| A play or film that that tells a humerus story | Comedy |
| Taught that the universe followed the same rules as music and numbers | Pythagores |
| Considered by some to be the greatest historian of the ancient world | Thucydides |
| "The father of history" | Herodutus |
| Taught absolute right and wrong did exist (sentenced to death for his teachings) | Socrates |
| Thought government should be headed by philosopher-kings | Plato |
| Greece’s northern neighbor | Macedonia |
| A commander in the army at 16 and a king at 20 ( built one of the greatest cities in the world and named it after himself) His armies conquered land as far east as modern Pakistan | Alexander |
| One of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world | Lighthouse of Alexandria |
| Tried to warn the Athenians that Philip 2 was a threat to them | Demosthenes |
| A time when Greek culture spread throughout the non-Greek world | Hellenistic Era |
| Taught that happiness came from reason and doing one’s duty | Stoics |
| Taught that happiness, the goal of life, came from spending time with friends | Epicurus |
| Studied how points, lines, angles, and planes relate to one another (Told King Ptolemy - “There is no royal way to learn geometry.” | Euclid |
| ”Give me a lever and a place to stand, and I will move the earth.” | Archimedes |
| An astronomer who taught that the sun was the center of the universe | Aristarchus |
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