Grecede Test Flashcards
Father of democracy
Clethenes
Peloponnesian war
Sparta vs Athens
Battle of Thermopylae
Small army of Greece held of Persians for 3 days. King Leonidas(300 Spartans)
Battle of Salamis
Athenian navy crushes Persian navy
Oracle of Delphi
Priestess who spoke for apollo(told future)
Persias first conquered the city states of what region?
Ionia
First Persian king to unite Persia
King Cyrus II
Persian King who decided to punish Athens
Darius I
Pericles
Athenian leader during golden age
Types of drama performed by the Greek
Tragedies,Comedier
Themistocles
Athenian general who defeated the Persians at the battle of salamis
Whose honor is Greeks dramas for
Dionysus(god of wind, fertility, and theater
Socrates
Father of Philosophy, question everything
Plato
Founded the school, wrote the republic
Aristotle
Father of science, tutored Alexander
Father of Medicine
Hippocrates
Father of history
Herodotus
3 bodies surrounding Greece
Ionian Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Aegean Sea
Hestia
Goddes of home, family
Artemis
Goddes of Hunting
Apollo
God of Prophecy,medicine,music
Hephaestus
God of Fire
Hermes
Messenger god
Who canceled the Olympics and when did it start again
Theodusius(Christian Roman emperoar
1896 in Athens
Greeks contributions
Democracy, philosophy, theater, alphabet, Olympics
Minoans
First Greek civilization
Theseus
Killed the Minotaur
Helens
Locals of Greece
Dorians
Illiterate Greeks, creates dark age
Homer
Blind poet,wrote the odyssey and the Iliad
Acropolis
Fortified hill
Culture of Greek/persians(alexander
Hellenistic
Hippocratic oath
Preserve life at all times
Classical
Art style;idealism
Classical Period;golden age of Greece
Delian league
Military alliance by Athens
Platea
Battle, Greeks win the Persian wars
Battle of Salamis
Themistocles defeat Persian fleet
Phalanx
Battle formation
Hoplite
Volunteer soldiers
King Xerxes
King of Persia,attacks Greece with huge fleet+army
King Phillip
King of Macedonia, Alexanders father
Symposium
“Bar” to drink
Metropolis
Mother city state
King Darius
King of Persia, wants to punish Athens
Bard
Singing story tellers
Agora
Public central square
Polis
City state
Atlas
Titan general, holds up the sky as punishment