Chp 4 Greek Civilization 6th

Question 1

The Illiad talks about what

Answer 1

The Trojan war

Question 2

What was Zeus called

Answer 2

The king

Question 3

What were Aesop’s Fables

Answer 3

They are fables where animals speak and act like humans. Usually ending with a moral or useful truth
Example: “ The tortoise and the hare”

Question 4

Myth

Answer 4

A traditional story that explains the practices or beliefs of people, or something in the natural world.

Question 5

Oracle

Answer 5

Sacred shrine where a priest or priestess spoke for a god or goddess

Question 6

Fable

Answer 6

The story meant to teach a lesson

Question 7

Oral tradition

Answer 7

The custom of passing a long stories by speech

Question 8

Epic

Answer 8

A story usually with a hero meant to teach a lesson

Question 9

Sophocles

Answer 9

He found sophists

Taught courage and understanding

Question 10

What is a Parthenon

Answer 10

A temple dedicated to a god or goddess

Question 11

What were sophists

Answer 11

Greek teachers of philosophy, reasoning, and public speaking truth

Question 12

Information about Socrates

Answer 12

He lived in Athens he was not a sophist and he invented the Socratic method
He believed in absolute truth

Question 13

The student was Plato

Answer 13

Socrates

Question 14

What did Plato do

Answer 14

Came up with philosopher kings

Question 15

New student was Aristotle

Answer 15

Plato’s student

Question 16

What did Aristotle create

Answer 16

Lyceum the first school to teach knowledge

Question 17

Aristotle made the “ The golden mean”. What was it

Answer 17

The perfect balance in life

Question 18

What three groups did Aristotle divide the government

Answer 18

Monarchy oligarchy and democracy

Question 19

Did Aristotle believed the best government was

Answer 19

A combination of monarchy oligarchy and democracy

Question 20

Herodotus what’s the father of what

Answer 20

History

Question 21

Pythagoras was known for math what did he make

Answer 21

The Pythagorean theorem

On a triangle A squared plus B squared equals C squared

Question 22

Hippocrates was. Father of what

Answer 22

Medicine

Question 23

Philip the second was the leader of what

Answer 23

Macedonia

Question 24

Alexander the great takes over Macedonia at what age

Answer 24

Age 20

Question 25

When Alexander the great was 16 what did he

Answer 25

Attack Persia

Question 26

When did Alexander’s attack on North to Mesopotamia at Guatemala

Answer 26

331 BC

Question 27

At what age did Alexander die by crossing the desert when he reached Babylon

Answer 27

When he was 32

Question 28

Zeno created what

Answer 28

Stoics

Question 29

Stoics believed that you should not be guided by emotion. Why

Answer 29

It does not equal happiness

Question 30

Happiness comes from

Answer 30

Reason

Question 31

Eratosthenes was a librarian that discovered what

Answer 31

The earth is round and is much smaller than the sun