The Greeks fought this empire, which helped unite city-states like Athens and Sparta.

• Persian Empire

• Egyptian Empire

• Mongol Empire

• Mycenaean Empire

This soldier ran 25 miles from Marathon to Athens to report news of Athens' victory over the Persian army.

• Plato

• Archimedes

• Socrates

• Pheidippides

The naval battle where the Greek forces defeated the Persians by trapping the Persian fleet of ships.

• Thebes

• Salamis

• Athens

• Sparta

A race that commemorates Pheidippides' run to alert his city-state of the Athenian's victory over the Persians.

• discus

• ninja

• marathon

• hurdles

he taught people to think by asking questions. Each question would take a person step by step to the conclusion.

• Aristotle

• Euclid

• Socrates

• Plato

Socrates' most well known pupil, who thought that a small group of educated citizens could run the government better than a democracy. This philosopher also believed that with applied reason that humans could achieve a perfect world.

• Plato

• Euclid

• King David

• Aristotle

Greek philosopher. A pupil of Plato, the tutor of Alexander the Great, who established schools that the modern university was based on. He wrote more than 170 books on astronomy, physics, politics and art.

• Euclid

• Leonidas

• Aristotle

• Socrates

The study of the of knowledge, beauty and order in the world.

• autobiography

• geology

• biography

• philosophy

A time when drama, sculpture, poetry, philosophy, architecture, and science all reached new heights in Greece from 477 to 431 b.c.

• Greece's Bronze Age

• Greece's Dark Age

• Greece's Golden Age

• Greece's Gilded Age

Philosophers and new Greek physicians began to argue that the gods were not responsible for a person's ...

• fate

• destiny

• money

• personality