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Part 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Alexander | Homeric name for Paris |
| Mediteranean Sea | The largest sea that seperates Europe and Africa |
| Ionian Sea | The part of the Medierranean Sea between Southeast Italy, East Sicily, and Greece |
| Aegean Sea | An arm of the Mediterranean between Greece and Turkey |
| Hercules | One of the greatest heroes of classical mythology, supposed to have been the strongest man on earth, was renowned for completing twelve seemingly impossible tasks and was the killing of the nine-headed Hydra. Zues was his father |
| Archimedes | (born 290 B.C.) Greek inventor and mathematician; invented formulas for the surface ara and volume of a sphere |
| Leonides | was a king of Sparta, the seventeenth of the Agiad line. He was one of the sons of King Anaxandridas II of Sparta. Led the battle fo Thermopylae with 300 Spartan men against Xerxes |
| Pericles | (495 B.C. – 429 B.C.) Athenian leader; played a major role in the development of democracy and the Athenian empire; ordered the Creation of the Acropolis featuring the Parthanon |
| Adriatic Sea | An arm of the Mediteranean between Italy and the Balkan Peninsula |
| Euclid | (300 B.C.) Greco-Roman mathematician; known for the elements; book on geometry. He found the branch of math called geometry. Also known as the “Father of Geometry”. |