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| What caused the major difficulties in uniting ancient Greeks under a single government? | geography |
| Who was driven from Greece shortly before the golden age of Athens began? | Persians |
| Why was Alexandria, Egypt, important during the Hellenistic period? | it became the foremost center of commerce & Hellenistic culture |
| What separated the different regions within Greece? | mountains |
| What two cities fought each other during the Peloponnesian War? | Athens & Sparta |
| What three things allowed Macedonia to conquer Greece? | (1) The Macedonian army was unusually well-trained, (2)Greece had been weakened by the Peloponnesian War, (3) Greek city-states failed to unify in time to effectively resist |
| Alexander the Great's first victories against the Persians gave him control of which region? | Anatolia (Asia Minor) |
| Which three cultures combined to make the blended Hellenistic Culture? | (1) Indian, (2) Persian, (3) Egyptian |
| What were Athens & Sparta? | city-states |
| After conquering Greece, Alexander the Great conquered which regions? | Persian Empire, Egypt & the Indus Valley |
| Ancient Athens was the first city-state to develop this type of government? | democracy |
| Who was the ruler during the golden age of Athens? | Pericles |
| This Greek philosopher said that people would only understand themselves by questioning what they believed. | Socrates |
| Who was the Greek tragic playwright who wrote Oedipus Rex? | Sophocles |
| What was the Greek philosopher that tutored Alexander the Great? | Aristotle |
| Who wrote the Iliad & the Odyssey? | Homer |
| Which Greek city-state formed the Peloponnesian league to counter the Delian league - this eventually led to the Peloponnesian War? | Sparta |
| Who was the father of Alexander the Great? | Philip II |
| What do historians call the culture spread by Alexander the Great? | Hellenistic |
What is this building?,  | Parthenon |
What kind of column is this?,  | Doric (Their smooth, round capitals are simple and plain compared to the other two Greek orders.) |
What kind of column is this?,  | Ionic (usually has simple scroll work) |
What kind of column is this?,  | Corinthian ( the most ornate of the orders) |
| Who are the two great Greek Playwrights (Dramatists)? | Aeschylus & Sophocles |
| Who was the greatest Greek Poet? (He wrote about the Trojan Wars) | Homer |
| Who were the two great Greek historians? | Herodotus & Thucydides |
| Who were the two greatest Greek contributors to Science & Medicine? | Archimedes & Hippocrates |
| Who were the two greatest Greek contributors to Mathematics? | Euclid & Pythagoras |
| Who were the three greatest Greek philosophers? | Socrates, Plato & Aristotle |
