Unit 3

Question 1

Mycenaen

Answer 1

people who settled on Greek mainland

Question 2

Trojan War

Answer 2

A war fought around 1200 BC in which an army led by Mycenaen kings attacked the independent trading city of Troy in Anatolia

Question 3

Dorians

Answer 3

A group of people who moved into the war torn countryside

Question 4

Homer

Answer 4

A blind man who made herioic epics

Question 5

Epics

Answer 5

Narrative poems celebrating heroic deeds c. 750-700 BC

Question 6

Myths

Answer 6

A set of stories about their gods

Question 7

Polis

Answer 7

City-state

Question 8

Acropolis

Answer 8

A marketplace/ fortified hilltop

Question 9

Helots

Answer 9

Peasants who are forced to stay on land they worked

Question 10

Phalanx

Answer 10

A fearsome formation that became most powerful fighting fence in the ancient world

Question 11

Persian Wars

Answer 11

Between Greek and Persian Empire

Question 12

Direct Democracy

Answer 12

Where the citizens rule directly, and not through representatives

Question 13

Classical art

Answer 13

The values of harmony, order, balance, and proportion

Question 14

Tragedy

Answer 14

A serious drama about common themes

Question 15

Comedy

Answer 15

Scenes filled with slapstick situations/ crude humor

Question 16

Pelopponnesian War

Answer 16

A war between Athens and Sparta 431-421

Question 17

Philosophers

Answer 17

Greek thinkers meaning “Lovers of wisdom”

Question 18

Socrates

Answer 18

A philosopher who believed absolute standards of justice did exist

Question 19

Plato

Answer 19

A philosopher who wrote the Republic where it showed the ideal life

Question 20

Aristotle

Answer 20

A philosopher who questioned the nature of the world, human belief, thought, and knowledge

Question 21

Philip II

Answer 21

The king of Macedonia who dreamed of contoling Greece and seizing Persia

Question 22

Macedonia

Answer 22

The kingdom located north of Greece it had rough terrain and a cold climate

Question 23

Alexander the Great

Answer 23

Boy who killed philip and seized the throne

Question 24

Darius III

Answer 24

King of Persia at the time of Alexander

Question 25

Hellenistic

Answer 25

The blendingof Egyptian, Persian, Indian, and Greek cultures

Question 26

Euclid

Answer 26

A geometry text made by Erathosthenes and Aristarchus

Question 27

Archimedes

Answer 27

A Hellenistic scientist of Syracruse who studied at Alexandria; accurately estimated the value of pi

Question 28

Colossus of Rhodes

Answer 28

A bronze statue that stood more than100 ft high one of the 7 wonders of the world at the time. toppled 225 BC