WH1 Vocab #5 Greece Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
Herodotus | father of history |
Thucydides | father of scientific history |
Phidias | Most famous Greek sculptor |
Pythagoras | Creates the theorem to calculate the relationship between the right sides of a triangle |
Aeschylus | Greek playwright, author of Prometheus Bound |
Sophocles | Greek playwright, author of Oedipus Rex |
Hippocrates | Father of medicine, created Hippocratic oath |
Phillip II | King of Macedonia who conquered Greece |
Peloponnesian War | Conflict in which Athens and its allies were defeated by Sparta and its allies |
Macedonia | Kingdom located north of Greece that conquers all of the Greek city-states |
Alexander the Great | Philip II’s son who established a huge empire |
Euclid | Greek mathematician, & pioneer in geometry |
Archimedes | Greek scientist, inventor, and mathematician |
Colossus of Rhodes | Huge bronze statue created on the island of Rhodes |
Doric | Most simple Greek column, squared at the top |
Ionic | Style of Greek column, topped with circular scrolls |
Corinthian | Style of Greek column, most elaborate, with scrolls & leaves |
Darius III | Last Persian king, finally defeated by Alexandria the Great |
Hellenistic | Relating to the culture that blended Greek with Egyptian, Persian & Indian influences |
Alexandria | Egyptian city that was the center of Hellenistic culture |
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