world history, chapter three terms

Question 1

philsopher who taught plato, quoted for “know thyself”

Answer 1

socrates

Question 2

who led the persian army that Alexander the great defeated

Answer 2

king darius lll

Question 3

the formal study of human and thought culture

Answer 3

humanities

Question 4

what was the chief magistrate in athens called

Answer 4

archon

Question 5

name the Greek philosopher and mathematician of the six century BC who concluded that the universe could be explained in mathematical term

Answer 5

pythogaras

Question 6

what ancient civilization had modern plumbing in the palace

Answer 6

Minoan

Question 7

who was the author of the lliad and the odyssey?

Answer 7

homer

Question 8

what city-state was the leader of the Delian league

Answer 8

athens

Question 9

which Persian king led attacks against the Greeks at the battles of thermopylae and salamis bay

Answer 9

xerexs

Question 10

what are two forms of greek drama

Answer 10

comedy, and tragedy

Question 11

father of medicine

Answer 11

hippocarates

Question 12

father of history

Answer 12

herodotus

Question 13

father of geometry

Answer 13

euclid

Question 14

father of philosophy

Answer 14

thales

Question 15

author of the republic

Answer 15

plato

Question 16

Greek poet

Answer 16

homer

Question 17

syllogism

Answer 17

Aristotle

Question 18

historian of the Peloponnesian war

Answer 18

thucydides

Question 19

astronomer and geographer

Answer 19

Eratosthenes

Question 20

what term refers to a rule by a few

Answer 20

oligarchy

Question 21

the basic political unit of Greece was the–

Answer 21

peloponnians war

Question 22

which of these (monarchy, democracy, anarchy, oligarchy) was not as not a form of government experienced by the Greek city-states

Answer 22

anarchy

Question 23

the Olympic games where originally held in honor of

Answer 23

zeus

Question 24

in which