WHI.4 Word Scramble
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| 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 ruler of the Olympian gods and god of the sky? | 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? | Peloponnesian 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? | Philip 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 childbirth, hunting, and animals | Artemis |
| god of music | Apollo |
| goddess of reason | Athena |
| goddess of love | Aphrodite |
| goddess of marriage | 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 |
| god of the sea | Poseidon |
| What was the evolution of government in Athens? (List the 4 types of government, in order.) | Monarchy, Aristocracy, Tyranny, Democracy |
| What modern-day country was the empire of Persia based in? | Iran |
| Persia was _____ with the people they conquered. | tolerant |
| the first king of Persia | Cyrus the Great |
| Persian king who expanded the empire as far east as India | Darius |
| Persian road that connected each end of the empire | Royal Road |
| Persia's government | imperial bureaucracy |
| Persian provinces were ruled by _____ | satraps |
| the religion of Persia | Zoroastrianism |
| founder of the Persian religion | Zoroaster |
| god of Zoroastrianism | Ahura Mazda |
| holy book of Zoroastrianism | Avesta |
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