Chapter 5 Ancient Greece

Invented the formula to calculate the relation-ship of the sides of a right triangle.

The art of skillful speaking

Greek historian who showed the importance of avoiding bias.

Theory of a sun centered solar system.

Who won the Peloponnesian War?

Educated women who helped Pericles rule during Ancient Greece's Golden Age.

Was sentenced to death by poison for heresy and corrupting the city's youth.

Applied principles of physics using levers and pulleys.

Tutor to Alexander the Great

Narrow water passages

Surprise Greek victory occurred at this battle.

Which of the following was NOT a reason the Minoan civilization disappeared?

Reason Pericles died.

Leader of the Persian forces at the Battle of Salamis.

A city-state in Ancient Greece

Fortified hilltop with temples dedicated to different gods and goddesses.

Formal agreement to cooperate and come to one anothers defense.

Set up the Lyceum to study all branches of knowledge.

To absorb Greek ideas.

Reformer who created a council of 500.

Which playwright did NOT write Greek tragedies?

Blind poet who gets credit for two Epic poems.

Greek physician who studies the causes of illnesses and looked for cures.

Rational thinking.

This is where the rulers of the ancient Minoan civilization lived.

Historian who stressed the importance of research.

People who gained power through force.

Who was the leader of the Macedonian victory at the Battle of Chaeronea.

Reformer who outlawed debt slavery.

Developed a new school of thought urging people to avoid desires and disappointments.

Reformer who took land from the nobles and gave it to the poor.

Greek city-states who wanted to protect themselves from further Persian invasion.

Early Greek civilization.

Fixed salary to men who held public office.

Wrote The Republic, which described his vision of the ideal state.

Leader of Spartan forces at the Battle of Thermopylae.

Massive formation of heavily armed foot soldiers.

Which was NOT a geographic trait of Ancient Greece?

Government where the ruling power belongs to a few people.

Wrote The Elements, a textbook that became the basis for modern geometry.

Gave a famous funeral oration.

Greek Drama began in festivals held in Athens to honor which Greek god?

Government ruled by a king or queen

Government by the people

Temple dedicated to the goddess Athena.

Watercolor paintings done on wet plaster.

Prisoners of war and state owned slaves.

Murder of a public figure.

Ran 26 miles to report of the Greek victory at the Battle of Marathon.

A law making body that debated laws.

Citizens who take a direct part in the the day to day affairs of government.

Areas dedicated to the honor of gods and goddesses.

Athenian leader who knew the victory at Marathon had only bought temporary success.