| A | B |
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| Pericles | Statesman established direct democracy in Athens; ruled during a golden age |
| Socrates | Philosopher who examined ideas through questioning; "The unexamined life is not worth living." |
| Aristotle | Philosopher who believed a strong, single & virtuous ruler should rule society |
| Aristarchus | Scientist who argued the earth orbited the sun |
| Archimedes | Scientist who mastered the pulley & lever |
| Pythagorus | Mathematician who derived a formula to calculate the relationship between the sides of a right triangle |
| Euclid | Mathematician who wrote The Elements, a textbook for modern geometry |
| Sophocles | Playwright who wrote Antigone |
| Herodotus | Historian who wrote about the Persian Wars |
| Homer | Poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey |
| Hippocrates | Doctor who came up with an oath doctors take today |
| Alexander | Conqueror who established an empire that extended from Greece to Egypt to India |
| The geography of Greece helped create independent | city-states |
| Greek term for a city-state with its surrounding land | polis |
| Type of government in which all citizens have the right to attend the assembly and cast votes | direct democracy |
| Geographic feature that enabled Greeks trade & contact with outside world | surrounding seas/rugged coastline |
| Geographic feature that prevented Greeks from uniting into one country- separating them into independent city-states | mountainous topography |
| Time of Athens’ peace & prosperity under Pericles | golden age |
| Athenians established governments that were | democratic |
| Alexander’s greatest achievement was the spread of | Greek culture |
| Culture that blended Greek, Persian, Egyptian, Indian elements resulting from Alexander's conquests | Hellenistic |
| Spartan society can be described as | militaristic |
| This group had few rights in either Athens or Sparta | women |
| Type of government in Sparta - rule by a few elite men | oligarchy |
| Used a question-answer format to reveal the truth | Socratic Method |
| tragedy | drama about human suffering |
| comedy | play that makes fun of people & customs |
| epic | long poem about heroic deeds |
