The Greek World Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
cavalry | a unit of soldiers mounted on horses |
Cyrus the Great | founder of the Persian Empire |
Darius I | Persian emperor who organized and expanded the empire |
Persian Wars | a series of wars between Persia and Greece beginning in 490 BC |
Xerxes I | Persian emperor who led the second invasion of Greece in 480 BC |
alliance | an agreement to work together |
Peloponnesian War | a war between the two great Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta in the 400s BC |
Philip II | powerful king of Macedonia |
phalanax | a group of warriors who stood close together in a square |
Alexander the Great | king of Macedonia who built the largest empire the world had ever seen |
Hellenistic | name for the blended culture that developed in Alexander's empire |
Socrates | the first of the great Greek thinkers and teachers |
Plato | teacher and thinker, student of Socrates, and founder of the Academy |
Aristotle | philosopher who taught that people should live lives of moderation based on reason |
reason | clear and ordered thinking |
Euclid | great and influential mathematician |
Hippocrates | great Greek doctor who taught how to treat disease by understanding what caused illness |
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Ms. Thacker
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