Chapter 4

The conquest of Alexander the Great gave rise to the

Herodotus wrote what is considered to be the first

The major gods and goddesses of the Greeks were believed to live on

According to the philosophy of Epicurus

Home of Alexander the Great

Fortified area on a hilltop

Why, according to legend did Archimedes run through town shouting “Eureka”

Why did the Athenians stay within their wall city during the Peloponnesian Wars

The reforms of Cleisthenes

Scholars continue to debate whether homers count of is based on historical fact

Founder of Stoicism

Socrates most famous student was named

The ancient Greeks strove for a kind of That they called arête.

Site of an early battle between the Greeks and the Macedonians

Why did large numbers of Greeks establish colonies in distant lands between 750B.C. And 550B.C.

In Athens, during the Age of Pericles, every male citizens

Two Major groups that settled within Greece itself were the

The Astronomer Eratosthenes determined that

About 80 percent of the geography of Greece is

Greek city, town, or village and surrounding

Important Greek colony city on the Bosporus strait

According to legend, how did the people in Athens find out what happened at the battle of marathon

One of the subjects that Aristotle wrote about was or study of moral principles

Who said that the unexamined life is not worth living

Why did so many different communities with independent ways of life develop in Ancient Greece?

Height of Athenian power and brilliance

During the dark age, some Greeks settled

The first Greek civilization

The ancient Greeks considered religion

Heavily armed foot soldiers

The most famous building on the Acropolis in Athens is the

At it’s height, Alexander empire extended as far east as

The tyrants of Ancient Greece were

Greek history was influenced by Greeces

After losing in battle of Thermopylae to the Persians, the Athenians

Imitating the Greeks

Which four kingdoms emerged following Alexander the Greats death

According to one story, a young Spartan warrior was told by his mother to return from the war

During the eighth century B.C., the Greek adopted a new system of writing based on

The odyssey, as a type of literature

Age that began with Alexander the Greats conquest

Famous temple of Athena

Sacred shrine where priests revealed the future

According to Plato, a good life can only be achieved if a person

The god associated with the most famous oracle in Ancient Greece was

Which Greeks playwright wrote Oedipus Rex?

People captured by the Spartans and forced to work as serfs

What was the result of Alexander the Greats conquest

Athenian vote of banishment

King who conquered the Greeks

The poet who wrote the load was named

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

The Liab and the Odyssey are examples of

The Greek sculptor Polyclitus believed that

Elected members of Sparta’s oligarchy

Athenian reformer who came to power in 594 B.C.

The word Sparta has come to mean

The teachings of Homer promoted

A writer of comedies during the Hellenistic era