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Mr. Moon's Greek Semester Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 2000 BC | start of Minoan Civilization |
| 1628 BC | Thera Explosion |
| 1600 BC | Height of Mycenaen Civilization |
| 1250 BC | Troy destroyed |
| 1200 BC | Dorian Invasions/Start of DarkAges |
| 800 BC | End of Dark Ages/Homer/Illiad/Phonecian ABC's |
| 776 BC | 1st Olympic Games |
| 734 BC | Syracuse founded by Corinth/colonization period |
| 621 BC | Draco (law codes) for Athens |
| 594 BC | Solon start of reforms for Athens |
| 508 BC | Cleisthemes creates Athen Democracy |
| 499 BC | Ionian revolt against Persia |
| 494 BC | Miletus destroyed/ revolt crushed |
| 490 BC | Battle of Marathon |
| 480 BC | Battle ofThermopylae and Slamis |
| 479 BC | Battle of Pataea |
| 461 BC - 431 BC | Rule of Pericles |
| *431 BC- 404 BC | Peloponnesian War |
| *371 BC | Thebes defeats Sparta |
| *339 BC | Philip defeats Greece states at Chaeronea |
| *336 BC | Philip assassinated |
| *334 BC | Invasion of Persian Empire at Troy |
| *333 BC | Battle of Issus |
| *332 BC | Tyre and Egypt captured |
| *331 BC | Battle of Gauguamela |
| 327 BC | Alexander the Great in India |
| 323 BC | Alexander dies in Babylon |
| the battle where the messanger has to run a very long distance to deliver messages | Marathon |
| This battle was meant to not defeat Persia but hold them off | Thermopyle |
| This battle was faught on the sea with fake retreating | Salamis |
| Thucdides | wrote about Peloponnesian war |
| Herodotus | Father of History |
| Everyone FINALLY shows up for this battle and Greece crushes the Persians | Plataea |
| These were ended in 393 by a Christian ruler who didn't like paganistic things | Olympic games |
| HOw many different philosiphies were there? | 6 |
| Epicureanism | didn't want to fear |
| Sophists | beleived that good and evil was a matter of opinion |
| Pathagorns | known for their mathmatics |
| Stotics | good comes from the heart |
| Cynics | Didn't like toilets (or anything else man made for that matter) |
| Skeptics | Who should question questioning anyway? (questioned everything 1st attacks on Christianity) |
| this city started the revolt against Persia | Miletus |
| Who won the battle of Marathon | Athens |
| Who was the ruler of Persia at the time of Marathon and the revolt? | Darius 1 |
| Who was the runner for Marathon? | Pelipodus |
| Who helped Miletus revolt? | Athens |
| women married at 18 | Sparta |
| men couldn't marry until 30 | Sparta |
| no navy, no trade, no pretty pictures | Sparta |
| vote at 30 | Sparta |
| boys taken at age 7 for military camp (wouldn't this be fun?) | Sparta |
| how longer were spartans soldiers? | age 20 till 60 |
| boys beaten publically | Sparta |
| the people who were usually out numbered against Persia | Athens |
| Heinrich Schliemann | Found Troy and Mycean |
| Sir Arthur Evans | discovered Minoan civilization |
| Homer | Wrote the Illiad and Odeussey |
| Pericles | leader of Athens durinf the Peloponesian war. |
| Thucydides | wrote down the Peloponesian wars. |
| Herodotus | father of history |
| Phillip 2 | Alexander the Great's daddy. Had a drinking problem. |
| Alexander the Great | conqured Persia |
| Draco | Law codes |
| Solon | started reforms for Athens |
| Cleisthenes | Made Athens a democracy |
| Xerxes | Persian ruler |
| Darius1 | Persian ruler during Alexanders the Greats time |
| Socrates | philosipher, encouraged people to think for themselves |
| Plato | famous student of Socrates |
| Aristotle | Alexanders mentor |
| Hippocrates | father of medican |
| Themistocles | leader of Athens during Persian wars |
| Leonidas | leader of sparta |
| PYthagoras | known for his work with geometry |
| Euclid | father of geometry |
| Archemedes | found the circumfurance of the Earth |
| Ptolemy | general of alexander the grest's army, ruled egypt |
| Aristarchus | siad that the earth revolved around the sun |
| confederacy | a unified group |
| imperialism | taking over countries and putting your government on them |
| ostracism | to exclude someone from the group |
| sophists | right and wrong is in the mind |
| sophrosyne | self control (greek) |
| vindictive | seeks revenge |
| prosperity | to prosper |