| A | B |
|---|
| Minoans | Early civilization on Crete. Theseus & Minotaur. Destroyed by volcanoes. |
| Mycenaeans | Invading Indo-Europeans. First Greeks. Trojan War. |
| Persian Wars | Between Greece and Persian empire. Won by Greece. Led to Athens' Golden Age. |
| Darius | First emperor of Persia. United empire. Lost to Greeks at Marathon. |
| Themistocles | Leader of Athens who beat Darius. Built Athenian navy. |
| Xerxes | Son of Darius. Lost to Greeks at Salamis--sea battle. |
| Pericles | Leader of Athens who beat Xerxes. Age of Pericles was golden age of Greece. |
| Socrates | Greek philospher and teacher. Poisoned by city-state for asking questions. |
| Plato | Philospher who wrote The Republic. Believed in Ideas, perfect forms.Student of Socrates. |
| Aristotle | Student of Plato. Wrote about science to ethics. Medieval universities taught his works.Foundation of western thought with Plato. |
| Parthenon | Temple of Athena, acropolis in Athens. One of world's most beautiful buildings. |
| Homer | Blind poet, wrote Iliad and Oddyssey. |
| Aeschylus, Euripides | Greatest Greek playwrights. |
| Phidias | Great Greek sculpor--Parthenon stuatues. |
| Peloponessian War | War between Athens and Sparta. Won by Sparta, ruined Greece. |
| Alexander the Great | Madecedonian who conquered Persian empire and spread Greek culture around world. |
| Hellenistic | Blend of Greek and Asian culture after Alexander. |
| Euclid, Pythagoras | Greek mathematicians (Hellenistic) |
| Archimedes, Hippocrates | Greek scientists (doctors take Hippocratic oath--do no harm) |
| Alphabet | Our alphabet, from Greeks, origninally from Phoenicians |
