Question | Answer |
What main sea is Greece located in? | Mediterranean |
What two peninsulas make up Greece? | Balkan and Peloponnesus |
What kingdom lies to the north of Greece? | Macedonia |
What is the name for the Greek culture? | Hellenistic (Hellenic) |
What type of religion did the ancient Greeks have? | polytheistic |
Where did the Greek gods live? | Mt. Olympus |
Who was the king of the gods? | Zeus |
Who were considered citizens in Greece? | free adult males |
What were the two most important city-states in Greece? | Athens and Sparta |
Athens was the first city with what form of government? | democracy |
What tyrant created the first code of law in Athens? | Draco |
What kind of government did Sparta have? | oligarchy |
What did Spartan society focus on? | military |
Who was the emperor of Persia during the beginning of the Persian War? | Darius |
What was the first, most famous and important battle during the Persian War? | Marathon |
Who won the Persian Wars? | Greece |
Persia returned to Greece after the Battle of Marathon under the rule of _______. | Xerxes I |
What battle during the Persian War became famous for the use of 300 Spartans? | Thermopylae |
What were Athens and its allies called? | Delian League |
What were Sparta and its allies called? | Pelopponesian League |
Who was the leader of Athens during its "Golden Age"? | Pericles |
What are the three types of columns in Greek architecture? | Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian |
Who is credited with the epic poems The Odyssey and The Iliad? | Homer |
Who is considered the father of Medicine? | Hippocrates |
Who invented the pulley and the lever? | Archimedes |
Who are the three most famous Greek philosophers? | Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle |
What was the name of the war between Athens, Sparta, and their allies? | Peloponnesian War |
As a result of their weakened state after the war, what kingdom was able to invade and conquer Greece? | Macedonia |
Who was the leader of Macedonia when they invaded Greece? | Phillip II |
Who was the son of Philip II and arguably one of history's greatest conquerors? | Alexander the Great |
As Alexander conquered and spread Greek culture, he ushered in what age? | Hellenistic Age |
Who sculpted the statue of Athena in the Parthenon? | Phidias |
Who wrote The Oresteia? | Aeschylus |
Who wrote Oedipus Rex? | Sophocles |
"Father of History"; wrote a history of the Persian Wars | Herodotus |
historian who wrote a history of the Peloponnesian Wars | Thucydides |
tyrant who loosened the laws, erased debt, and walked away from power | Solon |
What book did Plato write? | The Republic |
What school did Aristotle establish? | School of Athens |
Father of Geometry | Euclid |
Mathematician who created a theorem to calculate the relationship between the sides of a right triangle | Pythagoras |
goddess of the hunt | Artemis |
god of sun, truth, intelligence, music, and poetry | Apollo |
goddess of war and wisdom | Athena |
goddess of beauty | Aphrodite |
goddess of marriage, home, children | Hera |
Temple to Athena | Parthenon |
What sea lies between Greece and Asia Minor? | Aegean |
What was the name for the Spartan slaves? | helots |
What was the name of the Greek military formation that helped them defeat the Persians in the Battle of Marathon? | phalanx |
What was the name of the final sea battle of the Persian War? | Salamis |
After the Persian War, Greece won control of what sea? | Aegean |
What geographic trait contributed to the creation of separate city-states in Greece? | mountains |