World Geo & History Ch 5 Ancient Greece
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Chapter 5 Ancient Greece
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 The island of Crete was the site of what early Greek civilization | minoans |
| Son of Zeus and Greek god of light | apollo |
| Greek philosopher who lived from 460 to 377 BC called the Father of Medicine | Hippocrates |
| The Age of Pericles was a period of great power and prosperity for what city | Athens |
| An important purpose of the Delian League | keep everyones money safe |
| Greek philosopher that used geometry to measure spheres, cones, cylinders. He calculated pi and built a device to move water upward | Archimedes |
| Athens gradually became more democratic through increases in the power of the common people and limitations on the power of who | archon |
| According to tradition, the poet whose works included two great epics, including the Iliad and the Odyssey | Homer |
| Greek author that wrote a book called Theogony. It is a creation story of Greek mythology | Hesiod |
| He ruled Athens from 461-429 BC and rebuilt the city, created the Delian League and built the Parthenon | Pericles |
| The Peloponnesian War began in part because of (a) rivalries between the Greek city-states of Sparta and Athens | 431 BC |
| This son of Darius destroyed Athens but was later defeated by the Greeks at Salamis. Greek city-states were similar in that they all had what | Aapolis |
| The people who conquered Crete and controlled Greece from about 1600 BC to 1200 BC were the | Myceneans |
| The Greek ruler known for his harsh written laws A free person that moved to Athens allowed to work but could not participate in government | Draco, medits |
| The Persian ruler who launched an attack against the Greeks at Marathon was | Darius |
| Spartan general at the Battle of Thermopylae that led his troops against the Persians | Leonidas... |
| Greek philosopher who discovered that the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the square of the other two sides | Pythagarus |
| Greek sculptor, he created The Discus Thrower | Myron |
| Row of soldiers standing shoulder to shoulder holding a long pike | Phalanx |
| a painting on a wet plaster wall found in the Minoan Civilization | frescoe |
| the region where Sparta was located | Pelopanesus |
| First king of a unified Greece in 338 BC in Athens | Phillip II |
| Greek goddess of love | ... |
| the region where Athens was located | Attica region |
| What is referred to as a harsh law | Dracconian |
| A slave that taught a Greek child manners and accompanied him to school | Literatores? |
| Greek god of the sea | Poseidon |
| Greek King that conquered the land from Asia Minor, Persia, Egypt to India in 331 BC to 323 BC | Alexander the Great |
| The region Phillip II was from in Greece | Maccedonia |
| wife of Zues | Hera |
| Greek market place | Agora |
| Lover of Wisdom | philosophers |
| Ruler who seizes power by force | dictator |
| Greek mathematician that made developments in Geometry. He wrote Elements | Euclid |
| Greek word for city-state. | polis |
| Privileged ruling class | Aristocrates |
| Slave laborer who was a member of the lowest class in Sparta | Helots |
| The first battle of Darius' I invasion of Greece; though vastly outnumbered, the Athenians were victorious | Battle of Marathon |
| The battle in which a Spartan army held a mountain pass against a much-larger Persian army until every Spartan soldiers was killed | Battle of Thermopylae |
| The battle in which Athenian ships smaller and faster defeated the ships of the Persian navy by ramming and sinking them | Battle of Platae |
| The time during which Athenian democracy and power reached its greatest heights | Golden Age |
| Student of Plato. He taught Alexander the Great | Aristotle |
| Father of History. He traveled through BAbylon, Phoenicia, and Egypt recording stories and events | Herodotus |
| The was caused by the long standing rivalry between Athens and Sparta | Peloponnesian War |
| Greek who ran from Marathon to AThens to warn of the Persians attacks | Pheidippides |
| Greek philosopher. He taught his students by engaging in discussion. He was condemned to death by poison | Socrates |
| Greek philosopher that founded the Academy and wrote The Republic | Plato |
| Greek that calculated the circumference of the earth | Eratosthenes |
| Greek mythology afterlife | Hades |
| Zeus' father | Cronus |
| Period from 478 BC t0 146 BC in Greece in which there were many cultural and scientific developments | Golden Age |
| Fortress built on a hill | Citadel |
| Greeks started these athletic events in 776BC in Athens | Olympics |
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