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Greece occupies a small area compared to what | Egypt and Mesopotamia |
What divides Greece isolating its people | Mountains |
What land form is Greece | Peninsula |
Because Greece is surrounded by water what becomes important for making money | Trade |
Where was the first Greek civilization located | Crete |
What are the two theories on what happen to the Minoan Civilization | Conquered, Destroyed by a tidal wave |
What author recorded the history of the Mycenaean Civilization | Homer |
What are Homer's two important books | Iliad and Odyssey |
Epic Poem | Long poem that tells the deed of a great hero |
Polis | Greek City-State |
Acropolis | Fortified area on top of a hill |
What did each soldier carry | Shield, spear and sword |
How did fighting change | Went from horseback to heavily armed infantry soldiers |
Two famous city-states | Sparta and Athens |
Known for being intelligent | Athens |
Known for being warriors | Sparta |
Oligarchy | Small group of people rule |
Democracy | Rule by the people |
Known for having a democracy | Athens |
Known for having an oligarchy | Sparta |
Babies were killed if they were not fit | Sparta |
Practiced Ostracism | Athens |
Won the Peloponnesian War | Sparta |
What city does Greece burn down for control of the Aegean Sea | Troy |
Who was Greece's biggest enemy from the Middle East | Persia |
What two major battles were fought against Persia | Marathon and Thermoplyae |
What is the major result of the Peloponnesian War | Macedonia is ignored to the North |
Who becomes leader of Macedonia at 20 | Alexander the Great |
Who did Alexander the Great idolize | Achilles |
What did Alexander think of other civilizations | Very tolerant |
Who does Alexander want revenge on for the Greeks | Persia |
Wrote the Republic | Plato |
Built the Academy | Plato |
Known for being ugle | Socrates |
Creates the Socratice Method | Socrates |
Writes about Science and Space | Aristotle |
Teaches Alexander the Great | Aristotle |
Comes up with the first idea of gravity | Archimedes |
Comes up with the numerical value of Pi | Archimedes |
Famous Greek doctor | Hippocrates |
Comes up with the Hippocratic Oath | Hippocrates |
Story of a boy who wants to kill his father and marry his mother | Oedipus Rex |
Comes up with the Oedipus Complex | Sigmund Freud |
Women couldn't participate | Olympics |
Held in the honor of Zeus | Olympics |
Received a olive branch crown for winning | Olympics |
Greek mathmatician | Pythagoras |
Came up with a math theorum | Pythagoras |