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Greek Review WBL
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the name of a city state in Greece? | Polis |
| A Walled high area surrounding a polis ? | Acropolis |
| A open area that served as a meeting place and market in early Greek city-states ? | Agora |
| State slaves in ancient Greece ? | Helots |
| Foot soldiers in ancient Greece ? | Hoplites |
| Great Pride ? | Hubris |
| A government run by the people ? | Democracy |
| A nother lawmaker who revised the laws again in 590s BC ? | Solon |
| A strong man who seized power by force and claimed to rule for the good of the poeple ? | Tyrant |
| Another reformer who took over Athens? | Cleisthenes |
| A type of government system where all people vote directly on an issue ? | Direct Domocracy |
| A chief of state of ancient Athens ? | Archon |
| A military formation composed of rows of soldiers standing shoulder to shoulder carrying pikes or heavy spears ? | Phalanx |
| A skilled and gifted public speaker ? | Pericles |
| One of the three greatest Greek philosophers ? | Socrates |
| One of the Socrates students and also one of the three Greek philosophers ? | Plato |
| The third of the Greek philosophers ? | Aristotle |
| CLEAR AND ORDERED THINKING ? | Reason |
| THE PROCESS OF MAKING INFERENCES ? | Logic |
| A man who was the most famous poet works in Greece ? | Homer |
| A TYPE OF POETRY THAT GAINED ITS NAME FROM THE LYRE, AN INSTRUMENT THAT PLAYED WHILE THE POETRY WAS SUNG ? | Lyric Poetry |
| The first major writer in Greece who lived in Greece during the Persia war ? | Herodotus |
| The second major historian likewise lived in Athens ? | Thucydides |
| What King Philip 2 Son ? | Alexander the Great |
| The blending of Greek cultures with thoes of Persai, Egypt, and Central Asia following the conquests of Alexander the Great ? | Hellenistic |
| A guy who formed alot of ideas in geometry ? | Euclid |
| A guy who was best know for calculating the size of the world ? | Eratosthenes |
| Was one of the worlds greatest inventors ? | Archimedes |