Tania - World Chapter 4 Review

starting point of Pheidippides' 26-mile run

Alexander's Empire

What was the result of Alexander the Great's Conquests?

famous temple to Athena

poet who wrote the Iliad

According to Plato, individuals could not achieve good unless

teaching approach using question/answer

bronze-using people who lived on Crete

founder of Stoicism

"to imitate Greeks"

The government of Athens after Cleisthenes became

sacred shrine where priests revealed the future

home of the chief fods and goddesses

Athenian defensive alliance

home of Alexander the Great

____ is considered by most historians today to be the greatest historian of the ancient world.

height of Athenian power and brilliance

Greek tyrants were

The astronomer Eratosthenes determined that

elected members of Sparta's oligarchy

According to the philosopher Epicurus,

According to the philosophy of Stoicism,

important Greek city colony on the Bosporus peninsula

Herodotus wrote _____, a work commonly regarded as the first real history in Western Civilization

What happened at Thermopylae?

The conquests of Alexander the Great created the

What was the first Greek state?

By 750 BC, the _____, or city-state, became the central focus of Greek life.

The mathematician Euclid wrote the Elements, which was a

king who conquered the Greeks

striving for excellence

city, town, village, and surroundings

The government of Sparta was an oligarchy, which means that it was

fortified area on a hilltop

Socrates' student

body of water that Greeks sailed

Persian monarch

Athenian vote of banishment

Which four kingdoms emerged following Alexander's death?

heavily armed foot soldiers