Golden Age

Question 0

What Greek city was the symbol of Greece’s Golden Age?

Answer 0

Athens

Question 1

What was the era for great cultural progress for Greece called?

Answer 1

Golden Age

Question 2

What was a marble temple on top of the Acropolis called?

Answer 2

The Parthatheon

Question 3

What was it built in honor of?

Answer 3

Athena

Question 4

Who sculpted the discuss thrower?

Answer 4

Myron

Question 5

Who sculpted the statues of Athena and Zeus?

Answer 5

Phidias

Question 6

What are two characteristics of Greek art?

Answer 6

1. Glorified Human Beings

2. Expressed Greek Beliefs

Question 7

What is the definition of Philosophy?

Answer 7

The study of basic questions of reality and human existence

Question 8

What does “philosopher” mean?

Answer 8

lover of wisdom

Question 9

What did Socrates believe the key to personal growth was?

Answer 9

Education

Question 10

What is the Socratic Method?

Answer 10

The method that uses questioning to teach

Question 11

What were two things Socrates was accused of doing?

Answer 11

1. Corrupting youth

2. Not believing in Godd

Question 12

Who was Socrates greatest student?

Answer 12

Plato

Question 13

What did Plato found?

Answer 13

The Acedemy

Question 14

What explained that all material things are an imperfect expression of perfect and universal ideas or forms?

Answer 14

The “Theory of Forms”

Question 15

What is the dialouge describing Plato’s view of a perfect society and government?

Answer 15

The Republic

Question 16

Who did Plato believe was the ideal form of government leaders?

Answer 16

Upper Class

Question 17

Who was Plato’s student?

Answer 17

Aristole

Question 18

What did Aristotle write about in his book of Ethics?

Answer 18

What makes people happy

Question 19

What forms of government did Aristotle want to combine to form a limited government?

Answer 19

Monarchy, Aristocracy, Democracy

Question 20

Who was the philosopher who believed that everything could be explained in terms of mathematics?

Answer 20

Pythagoras

Question 21

What did Pythagoras develop?

Answer 21

The Pythagorem Theorem

Question 22

Who was the founder of medical science?

Answer 22

Hippocrates

Question 23

He belived thag disease came from natural sources not _____?

Answer 23

Gods

Question 24

Who was the first historian in the western world ?

Answer 24

Herodotus

Question 25

What was Herodotus called?

Answer 25

Father of History

Question 26

The History of the Peloponnesian War was written by who?

Answer 26

Thucydides

Question 27

What are plays containing action or dialogue and involve conflict and emotion?

Answer 27

Drama

Question 28

What are plays where the main character struggles against fate or events?

Answer 28

Tragedies

Question 29

What are plays that make fun of ideas or people?

Answer 29

Comedies

Question 30

Where was Macedon located in relation to mainland Greece?

Answer 30

North of Greece

Question 31

Who became king of Macedon in 359 Bc?

Answer 31

Phillip II

Question 32

What was Phillip's army organized into?

Answer 32

phalanx

Question 33

How did the Athenians view Macedon?

Answer 33

They didnt care for them

Question 34

What were two opinions the Greeks had of being conquered by Phillip II?

Answer 34

Unify vs Freedom

Question 35

What was Phillips dream?

Answer 35

To conquer Persia

Question 36

What happened before he could do it?

Answer 36

He was asassinated

Question 37

Who succeeded Phillip II?

Answer 37

Alexander the Great

Question 38

Whwre did Alex get his military education?

Answer 38

Macedon Army

Question 39

He recieved his school from?

Answer 39

Aristotle

Question 40

Why was Alex such a successful military leader?

Answer 40

He was well prepared skilled and respected

Question 41

What were the three goals of Alex the Great?

Answer 41

1. Conquer known world 2. Spread Greek culture 3. Rule an empire

Question 42

Where was the furthest point Alex reachedvl?

Answer 42

India/Indus River

Question 43

Alex died where?

Answer 43

Babylon

Question 44

What age?

Answer 44

33

Question 45

What is Hellenistic Culture?

Answer 45

Greek like culture and it came from Alex's desrh and Rome's conquest of Greece

Question 46

In 301 bc what three generals divided Alex's empire into what three kingdoms?

Answer 46

1. Macedon 2. Egypt 3. Syria

Question 47

What class began to grow during this age?

Answer 47

Middle

Question 48

What became the largest city in the world?

Answer 48

Alexandria Eygpt

Question 49

What did Greeks turn to?

Answer 49

Religion

Question 50

What was the philosophy that taught live simply and naturally without regard for wealth etc?

Answer 50

Cynicism

Question 51

What was the belief that the universe was always changing and all knowledge is uncertain?

Answer 51

Skepticism

Question 52

What was the belief that divine reason directed the world so people should accept their fate without complaint?

Answer 52

Stoicism

Question 53

What is the belief that the aim of life was to seek pleasure and aviod pain?

Answer 53

Epicureanism

Question 54

who made major advancements in geometery?

Answer 54

Euclid

Question 55

Who believed that the sun was the center of the universe?

Answer 55

Aristarchus

Question 56

Who used trigonometery to calvulate eclipses?

Answer 56

Hipparchus

Question 57

Who calcualated the distance around the Earth ans was considered the greatest scientist of his day?

Answer 57

Eratosthenes