Ancient Greece Flashcards
At it’s height, Alexander’s empire extended as far east as…
Pakistan
Herodotus wrote what is considered to be the first…
Real world history in Western civilization.
Why, according to legend, did Archimedes run through the town shouting “Eureka!”
He had experienced a breakthrough in his studies of specific gravity while he was taking a bath.
What was the result of Alexander the Great’s conquests?
Greek language, art architecture, and literature spead throughout Southeat Asia.
The Athenian dramatist Euripides wrote
Realistic tragedies that portrayed war and barbaric.
Who said that “the unexamined life is not worth living”?
Socrates
Why did the Athenians stay within their walled city during the Peloponnesian Wars?
Pericles knew they were not strong enough to defeat the Spartan army, but he thought the walls could keep them out.
According to legend, how did the people in Athens find out what had happened at the battle of Marathon?
A man named Pheidipiddes ran all the way from the battlefield to Athens.
Why did a large number of Greeks establish colonies in distant land between 750 b.c. and 550 b.c.
They were seeking a home that was less overpopulated and where they would find fertile farmland.
The goverment of Sparta was an oligarchy, which means that it was
Rules by a small number of people.
Scholars continue to debate whether Homer’s account of what is based on history or fact?
The sacking of Troy by Mycenaens under the leadership of King Agamemnon.
Why did so many different communities with independant ways of life develop in ancient Greece?
The mountains in the territory isolated people from one another and prevented different communities from coming together.
Age that began with Alexander the Great’s conquests.
The Hellenistic Era
Founder of Stoicism
Zeno
Famos temple to Athena
Parthenon
