The Greeks and Romans

What city-state was all about the war.

• Athens
• Marathon
• Sparta
• Ionia

What was a Polis?

• Slang for acropolis

• the statue of Athena

• That was never a word before in the history of forever

• The polis or city state was the geographic and political center of Greek life.

Athens rival was...

• Sparta
• Crete
• Greece
• Egypt

What is a group of armed foot soldiers arranged close together in rows?

• phalanx
• polis
• agora
• hoplite

What games were played every four years to honor the Gods? (BONUS)

• Monopoly
• snakes and ladders
• olympic games
• Clue

What war between Sparta and Athens created alliances that pulled one Greek city-state after another into battle?

• Persian Wars
• The battle of marathon
• Peloponnesian War
• Battle of Alexandria

The geography of Greece influenced the culture’s development by

• offering vast, open plains subject to invasion
• Encouraging unity among the city-states
• Rugged mountains that isolated cities & good harbors that encouraged trade.
• Encouraging farming but limiting foreign trade

Which Greek philosopher had the method to study facts and then try to understand it? 

• Socrates
• Aristotle
• Plato
• Alexander

Herodotus and Thucydides are known for what type of writing?

• poetry
• history
• drama
• philosophy

Who was known as the "Father of Geometry"? 

• Aristophanes
• Euclid
• Plato
• Pythagoras