Greek World

Question 1

cavalry

Answer 1

a unit of soldiers mounted on horses

Question 2

Cyrus the Great

Answer 2

founder of the Persian Empire

Question 3

Darius I

Answer 3

Persian emperor who organized and expanded the empire

Question 4

Persian Wars

Answer 4

a series of wars between Persia and Greece beginning in 490 BC

Question 5

Xerxes I

Answer 5

Persian emperor who led the second invasion of Greece in 480 BC

Question 6

alliance

Answer 6

an agreement to work together

Question 7

Peloponnesian War

Answer 7

a war between the two great Greek city-states of Athens and Sparta in the 400s BC

Question 8

Philip II

Answer 8

powerful king of Macedonia

Question 9

phalanx

Answer 9

a group of warriors who stood close together in a square

Question 10

Alexander the Great

Answer 10

king of Macedonia who built the largest empire in the world had ever seen

Question 11

Hellenistic

Answer 11

name for the blended culture that developed in Alexander’s empire

Question 12

Socrates

Answer 12

the first of the great Greek thinkers and teachers

Question 13

Plato

Answer 13

teacher and thinker, student of Socrates, and founder of the Academy

Question 14

Aristotle

Answer 14

philosopher who taught that people should live lives of moderation based on reason

Question 15

reason

Answer 15

clear and ordered thinking

Question 16

Euclid

Answer 16

great and influential mathematician

Question 17

Hippocrates

Answer 17

great Greek doctor who taught how to treat disease by understanding what caused illness