Ancient Greece

Question 1

Socrates

Answer 1

Athenian philosopher; Socratic Method

Question 2

Homer

Answer 2

Wrote Illiad and Odyssey

Question 3

Plato

Answer 3

Socrates’ student; set up Academy; wrote The Republic; rejected Athenian democracy

Question 4

Aristotle

Answer 4

Plato’s student; favored in person in charge; set up Lyceum and taught branches of knowledge

Question 5

Sophocles

Answer 5

Playwright; wrote Antigone - moral duty v. state law

Question 6

Euripides

Answer 6

Playwright; wrote Trojan Women - showed women suffering in Trojan War

Question 7

Aristophanes

Answer 7

Playwright; wrote comedy Lysistrata - Athenian women come together, tell husbands to end fighting with Sparta

Question 8

Alexander the Great

Answer 8

prodigy; conquered Persian Empire; expanded land to the Ganges
CULTURAL DIFFUSION

Question 9

Philip II

Answer 9

Macedonian; conquered Greece; wanted to conquer Persian Empire

Question 10

Pythagoras

Answer 10

calculated relationship between sides of a right triangle

Question 11

Archimedes

Answer 11

mastered the lever and pulley

Question 12

Hippocrates

Answer 12

Studied causes of illness; Hippocratic oath: “do whatever they can”

Question 13

Darius III

Answer 13

Emperor of Persia, weak leader

Question 14

Sparta

Answer 14

Created by Dorians; helots are slaves; strict;

Question 15

Athens

Answer 15

Athenian; loved the arts, education

Question 16

Located in the Peleponnesus

Answer 16

Sparta

Question 17

Located in Attica

Answer 17

Athens

Question 18

Greek religion was..

Answer 18

Polytheistic; Greek Gods (Zeus Athena Aphrodite…)

Question 19

Persian Wars

Answer 19

Greek city states v. Persia to stop Persian invasions/ expansion

Question 20

Delian League

Answer 20

Athenian; to make Athenian Empire bigger

Question 21

Peloponnesian League

Answer 21

Spartan

Question 22

Herodotus

Answer 22

wrote about Persian wars; “Father of History”