Ch. 8 "Greek Civilization" Test

A commander in the army at 16 and a king at 20

• David

• Alexander the Conqueror

• Alexander the Great

• Theseus

A traditional story about gods and heroes

• Myth

• Novel

• Fable

• Epic

Considered by some to be the greatest historian of the ancient world

• Herodotus

• Thucydides

• Pythagoras

• Sophocles

Taught that the universe followed the same rules as music and numbers

• Sophocles

• Sophists

• Alexander

• Pythagoras

Greece's northern neighbor

• Macedonia

• Persia

• Rome

• Egypt

Taught that happiness came from reason and doing one's duty

• Sophsts

• Epicureans

• Stoics

• Christians

Taught that there was no absolute right or wrong

• Greeks

• Stoics

• Macedonians

• Sophists

Dramatist who used painted scenery and three actors to tell a story

• Sophocles

• Euripides

• Cleisthenes

• Phillip II

Highest mountain in Greece

• Olympus

• Vesuvius

• Alps

• Olympia

a time when Greek culture spread throughout the non-Greek world

• Hellenic Era

• Hellenistic Era