WHI.5 Greece and Alexander the Great

The Athenians defeated the Persians at what naval battle?

Who said the sun is bigger than the earth and that it lay at the center of the universe?

What is the type of government in which thousands of people were needed to make all decisions?

Who wrote Prometheus Bound, a tragedy?

What is the term used for the art of skillful speaking?

Who was the father of modern day geometry?

Who is the father of modern medicine due to his ethical beliefs in the medical profession?

At what age did a Spartan child have to join the military?

What city state dominated the Delian League?

The greatest of all Alexandrias was located here.

Who wrote Medea, a comedy?....It is not Tyler Perry

Who ran 26.2 miles from Marathon to Athens delivering the news of Greek victory?

What was the battle tactic used by the Athenians to defeat the Persians?

Which of the following was not part of the Hellenistic Culture?

What type of government did Cleisthenes create?

What city did the Greeks sail to in order to bring home Helen, their queen?

What city state started as a monarchy and ended up as a direct democracy?

When the Persians launched their SECOND attack against the Greeks, who was their leader?

What empire attempted to take  over Athenian colonies in Asia Minor (Anatolia)?

Which philosopher taught Plato and was condemned to death for corrupting the youth?

Which of these was NOT a nomadic group that settled down in Greece?

Who instituted direct democracy in Athens, leading to a golden age named for him?

During which war did this take place?

How long was the run from Marathon to Athens, giving us the modern day length of a marathon?

Which philospher wrote The Republic because he did not agree with the workings of democracy?

Who wrote Oedipus, a tragedy?

Which of the following plays was a comedy about the Peloponnesian War?

Who accurately estimated earth's circumference (within 1% of actual size)?

Who developed a lever and pulley system, accurately estimated pi, and created the first screw?

What type of a government is ruled by a small group of middle class citizens?

Who believed that you must avoid pleasures and had a philosophy termed Stoicism?

What peninsula is home to ancient Greece?

Who was the leader of the Persians when they FIRST tried to take Athens?

The story of the Trojan War is retold in the 

Who said the earth lay at the center of the universe (geocentric theory)?

What is this temple built to honor Athena called?

What was the name of the battle where the "Last Stand" of the Spartan 300 took place?

Why did the Greeks fight the Trojans?

Who is the man that ended debt slavery in Athens?

Which of the following was not true of Greek plays

Who believed in order to properly depict/record history you must do research?

How old was Alexander the Great when he took over and when he died?

Who wrote Lysistrata, a comedy?

What caused over 33% of the Athenian population to die during the Peloponnesian War?

What sea is located to the east of the Balkan Peninsula, separating Greece & Anatolia?

Which region was considered to be "backwards" by the Greeks?

Who was a blind poet who wrote the Iliad and The Odyssey?

Who stressed the avoidance of bias in recording the Peloponnesian Wars?

Which of the following cannot be found in the orange shaded region

Who is known as the "father of history" for his work in writing The Persian Wars?

What alliance was created by the Greek city states to fend off further attacks by the Persians?

Who won the Persian Wars?

Which philosopher used questioning techniques to reach his students?

It is the place where temples were built in Greek city states.

Which of the following was NOT a Greek playwright?

Which mathematician developed this theorem: a² + b² = c²

What were Persian soldiers called?

The term for a Greek city state

Which philosopher stressed compromise or the "golden mean?"

What geographical feature caused Greece to  be independent city states?

What is a government which is ruled by members of the upper class, known as aristocrats?

What text contains the thoughts of Euclid?

Which of the following, by Sophocles, was about a man who killed his dad & married his mom?