History Flashcards
Rule by force
Tyranny
Philosopher who taught Plato quoted from know thyself
Plato
Persian king that burned Athens
Xerxers
The formal study of human and thought culture
Humanities
Rule by one
Monarchy
Father of medicine
Hippocrates
Rule by the people
Democracy
Father of philosophy
THALES
Astronomer and geographer
Eratostheas
Rule by a few
Oligarchy
Father of history
Herodotus
Historian of the Peloponnesian war
Thucydides
Breakdown of government in order
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Poet and author of the Iliad and the Odyssey
Homer
Father of geometry
Eulid
Famous philosopher who taught Aristotle
Socrates
The period in which Greek culture was spread throughout the ancient world
Hellenisticage
Known for drama
Sophocles and Aristophanes
Alliance formed by Athens to protect Greece from further Persian attack
Della league
Basic political unit in Greece
Polis
He defeated Army led by Darius the third
Alexander the great
Olympic Games were held in his honor
Zeus
Philosopher who taught Alexander
Aristotle
Greek general who defeated the Romans on two occasions but at such cost that he lost the war
Pyrus