Ancient Greece

Question 1

Wrote illiad and odyssey

Answer 1

Homer

Question 2

Socrate’s student; set up academy; wrote the republic; rejected Athenian democracy

Answer 2

Plato

Question 3

Plato’s student; set up Lyceum and taught branches of knowledge

Answer 3

Aristotle

Question 4

Wrote Antigone;

Answer 4

Sophocles

Question 5

Athenian philosopher; Socratic method

Answer 5

Socrates

Question 6

Wrote Trojan women

Answer 6

Euripides

Question 7

Wrote comedy Lysistrata

Answer 7

Aristophanes

Question 8

Prodigy; conquered Persian empire; Philip II’s son; expanded land to Ganges; CULTURAL DIFFUSION

Answer 8

Alexander the Great

Question 9

Macedonian; conquered Greece; wanted to conquer Persian empire

Answer 9

Phillip II

Question 10

Calculated relationship between sides of a right triangle

Answer 10

Pythagoras

Question 11

Mastered the lever and the pulley

Answer 11

Archimedes

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Hippocrates

Question 13

Emperor of Persia, weak leader

Answer 13

Darius III

Question 14

Wrote about Persian wars; “father of history”

Answer 14

Herodotus

Question 15

Phillip II’s queen; outmaneuvered Phillip’s other wives and children to put her son Alexander to the throne.

Answer 15

Olympias

Question 16

Trojan prince; said to have caused Trojan war by kidnapping Helen, wife of Greek King, and the Mycenaeans sailing to Troy to rescue her

Answer 16

Paris