Chapter 5 Greek Civilization

______________ is known as the "Father of History."

___________ is considered by many historians to be the greatest historian of the ancient world.

Who wrote The History of the Persian Wars?

_______________ wrote plays that poked fun at politicians and encouraged the audience to think.

Aristotle taught his students to follow the ____________________.

____________________ was an astronomer who taught that the sun was the center of the universe.

________________ freed the Greek cities in Asia Minor from Persian rule.

_____________________ studied how points, lines, angles, and planes relate to one another.

Aristotle started a school called the _______________________.

__________ was a Greek general and playwright who used 3 actors and painted scenes in his plays

________________ was Alexander the Great's teacher.

The armies of ___________________ conquered land as far east as modern Pakistan.

____________________ is the art of designing and building structures.

________________, a student of Socrates, wrote a book called the Republic.

Philip II defeated the Greeks at the Battle of __________________.

________________ was the Macedonian king who loved Greek culture and planned to conquer Persia.

Homer's epic, the Iliad, is about __________________.

____________________ was the most famous scientist of the Hellenistic Era.

He made close measurements of the earth's circumference and the distance to the sun and moon.

__________________ was a commander in the army at 16, and a king at age 20.

_________________, a student of Plato, wrote a book called Politics.

__________________ is probably the most famous Greek mathematician.

________________ is the highest mountain in Greece.

_________________ thought that governments should be headed by philosopher-kings.

__________________ tried to warn the Athenians that Philip II was a threat to them.

________________________ was a dramatist who questioned traditional thinking about war.

_____________________ was a time when Greek culture spread throughout the non-Greek world.

______________ believed that men and women should be equals when it came to jobs and education.

________________ was a dramatist who used painted scenery and three actors to tell a story.

The Greeks hoped to earn the favor of their gods and goddesses by performing _______________.

_________________ was the goddess of wisdom and crafts.

___________________ figured out the value of pi.

_________________ was the Greek philosopher sentenced to death for his teachings.

Who did the Greeks call the god of the underworld?

________________ wrote the book, Elements.

____________________ taught that absolute right and wrong did exist.

The golden mean says that you should ______________________.

___________________ taught that happiness came from doing one's duty.

_________________ believed that government should be headed by philosopher-kings.

The library at ________________ attracted scholars from all over the world.

___________________ wrote The History of the Peloponnesian War.

_________________ defeated the Greeks with his victory at the Battle of Chaeronea.

___________ was the first Greek playwright to use two actors in his plays.

A Phoenician named _______________ founded the philosophy called Stoicism.

Who said, "Give me a lever and a place to stand, and I will move the earth"?

______________________ taught that the universe followed the same rules as music and numbers.

____________ is Greece's northern neighbor.

Who wrote The Odyssey?

________________________ taught that there was no absolute right or wrong.

A __________________ is a traditional story about gods and heroes.

__________ produced much scientific achievement, art, architecture, literature, and philosophy.

______________________ told King Ptolemy that, "There is no royal way to learn geometry."

___________________ was the chief of the Greek gods.

Plato established a school in Athens known as the __________________.

________________ taught that happiness, the goal of life, came from spending time with friends.