Who is known for writing "The Odyssey" and "The Iliad"?

• Homer

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Socrates

Who is often considered the first historian, providing an impartial adherence to what really happened?

• Herodotus

• Thucydides

• Xenophon

• Plutarch

Who is credited with determining that the Earth was round and estimating its circumference within 185 miles of the actual value?

• Eratosthenes

• Pythagoras

• Archimedes

• Euclid

Who was a ruler who took power by force?

• Tyrant

• Monarch

• Emperor

• President

Who built a powerful army from Macedonia and ended the independence of the Greek city-states?

• Alexander the Great

• Philip II

• Pericles

• Leonidas

Who established the mathematical constant, pi (π)?

• Archimedes

• Euclid

• Pythagoras

• Aristotle

What is the term for a rectangular military formation?

• Phalanx

• Legion

• Cohort

• Brigade

Who was only 20 years old when he inherited his father's throne and extended the Greek empire from Egypt to India?

• Alexander the Great

• Philip II

• Darius III

• Xerxes

Who believed that a higher world of eternal and immutable Form has always existed?

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Socrates

• Pythagoras

What type of government allows every male citizen to participate directly in governmental decisions?

• Direct democracy

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

• Republic