Greek Civilization

Who taught students that all relationships could be expressed in numbers?

• Thucydides

• Pythagoras

• Plato

• Hippocrates

Which Greek scientist concluded that the Earth was round and measured the Earth’s circumference?

• Epicurus

• Euclid

• Archimedes

• Eratosthenes

Which Greek figured out the value of pi?

• Philip II

• Archimedes

• Homer

• Euripides

This Greek wrote The Republic, which was his plan for an ideal society and government.

• Socrates

• Aristophanes

• Plato

• Aristotle

Who was the goddess of wisdom and war and was so popular that she had a major city-state named in her honor?

• Artemis

• Aphrodite

• Athena

• Hera

Herodotus was considered

• “the father of medicine.”

• “the father of wars.”

• “the father of science.”

• “the father of history.”

Who wrote the Odyssey and the Iliad?

• Aesop

• Homer

• Sophocles

• Euripides

The Golden Mean was an idea taught by Aristotle that meant

• seeking pleasure is the most important thing.

• people should live moderately and take the middle position between two extremes.

• there is no absolute right or wrong.

• people should treat one another as they would like to be treated themselves.

Philip II defeated the Greeks at the Battle of

• Chaeronea

• Troy

• Greece

• Alexandria

The Hellenistic Era produced a great body of achievements in

• science, mathematics, art, architecture, literature, and philosophy.

• literature, religion, and philosophy.

• art and architecture.

• science and politics.