| A | B |
|---|
| Mycenaeans | 1st Greek Civilization |
| Minoan Crete | Civilization on Crete; probably invaded by Mycenaeans |
| Agamemnon | King of Mycenae; sacked the city of Troy |
| c.1100BCE | Collapse of Mycenae |
| 1100-750BCE | Greek Dark Ages |
| Ionia | Asia Minor; Turkey |
| c.800BCE | Homer writes epic poems |
| Epic Poem | Long story that tells about a hero |
| Polis | Center of Greek life |
| Agora | Market place |
| Hoplites | Heavily armed infantry soldiers |
| Darius I | Persian emperor who invaded Greece |
| 490BCE | Battle of Marathon |
| Xerxes | Son of Darius; invaded Greece in 480BCE |
| Thermopylae | Greeks delayed Persians for 2 days; wiped out |
| Battle of Salamis | Athenian navy destroys Persian fleet |
| 479BCE | Persians defeated at Plataea |
| Delian League | Defensive alliance; Athens starts |
| Pericles | Athenian leader who ruled during the Golden Age of Athens |
| Athenian Democracy | One man; one vote |
| Peloponnesian War | Athens vs. Sparta |
| 430BCE | Plague breaks out in Athens |
| Nuclear Family | Father, Mother, Children |
| Parthenon | Temple to Athens; atop the Acropolis |
| Doric, Ionic, Corinthian | Greek columns |
| Polytheistic | Greek religion |
| Tragedies, Comedies | Greek drama |
| Socrates | 1st Greek philosopher |
| Socratic Method | Question & Answer |
| Plato | Student of Socrates; Greatest Western philosopher |
| "The Republic" | Plato's book on government |
| Aristotle | Student of Plato; Researched & experimented |
| "Politics" | Aristotle's book on government |
| Herodotus | Father of History |
| Thucydides | Wrote 1st "real" history |
| Philip II | King of Macedonia |
| Alexander the Great | Son of Philip II; conquered largest empire in known world |
| 323BCE | Alexander dies in Babylon |
| Alexander | Tutored by Aristotle |
| Hellenistic | To imitate Greece |
| Aristarchus | Early heliocentric theory |
| Eratosthenes | Calculated the circumference of the Earth; 200 miles off |
| Euclid | Worked in Geometry |
| Archimedes | Geometry of spheres & cylinders; concept of pie (3.14) |
| Pythagoras | Geometry of angles & triangles |
| Epicurus | Epicureanism; happiness was the goal of life |
| Zeno | Founder of Stoics |
| Stoics | Living in peace with nature; allowed fate to take over |
| Iliad | Epic Poem on Trojan War |
| Odyssey | Epic Poem on Ulysses Return |
| Acropolis | Athenian Polis |
| 490-479BCE | Persian Wars |
| 399BCE | Socrates dies |
| Oedipus Rex | Greek tragedy |
| Fresco | Painting on wet plaster |
| Mosaic | Small pieces of porcelin painted made into a picture |
