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The winner of the Peloponnesian War.

What was Sparta?

A warship with 3levels of oarsmen, it helped the Greeks defeat the Persian navy at the Battle of Salamis.

What is a trireme?

The father of history who is our primary source of information about the Persian Wars.

Who is Herodotus?

After the Persian invasion of 480 BCE, Greek city-states formed a mutual-defense alliance under the leadership of Athens, called ________.

What is the Delian League?

The first critical historian, who wrote about the Peloponnesian War.

Who was Thucydides?

After the Peloponnesian War, endless conflict between the Greek city-states left them open to attack from (person) of (place).

Who was Philip of Macedonia?

After conquering and unifying Greece, Alexanders father claimed merely to be a member of the _______ of _______.

What was the League of Corinth?

This Persian capital was burned to the ground by Alexander after a drunken party.

What was Persepolis?

By saying all good men were kin, and only those with wicked hearts could be considered foreigners, Alexander changed the definition of h_____, which upset his fellow Greeks.

What is a Hellene?

The two items that Alexander the Great always kept under his pillow as he slept.

What are a copy of Homers Illiad and a dagger?

Alexander learned to respect Greek culture from his tutor, the famous philosopher _____.

Who was Aristotle?

As he advanced through Asia, Alexander founded over 70 new cities, to be settled as Greek ______.

What are colonies?

Under the rule of Ptolemy, one of Alexanders generals, Egypt became one of four ________ kingdoms.

What is Hellenistic?

The greatest city of the Hellenistic age, ______ was a center of trade with a massive lighthouse for its harbor, and a center of learning with a legendary library.

What was Alexandria?

(in Egypt)

The spread of Greek language and learning, where people could become Greek without originally being Greek, is a good example of cultural _______.

What is diffusion?

What the word philosophy means.

What is a lover of wisdom?

Saying that the unexamined life was not worth living, this famous philosopher questioned everything.

Who was Socrates?

_______, or the Art of Persuasion, was taught by the sophists and was considered an essential skill for any political leader.

What is Rhetoric?

Step-by-step questioning in search of truth and wisdom.

What is the Socratic Method?

This great thinker was a student of Socrates, wrote books of philosophy in the form of dialogues, and founded the first university, the Academy of Athens.

Who was Plato?

The father of modern medicine, this Greek physician searched for explanations of illness without reference to the gods.

Who was Hippocrates?

A governor who ruled one of 20 provinces for the Persian kings, (and later, for the Seleucid kings who succeeded Alexander).

What was a satrap?

The great Hellenistic mathematician, scientist, inventor and engineer, who correctly estimated the value of pi (and was later killed by a Roman soldier).

Who was Archimedes?

A political leader in a democracy who seeks support by appealing to popular desires, fears and prejudices, rather than by using rational argument.

What is a demagogue?

Aristarchos of Samos correctly placed the sun at the center of the known universe, which is called ________.

What is Heliocentric?

Make your wager

These Hellenistic philosophers argued that one should strive to live in harmony with divine will, and bear whatever life offered without complaint.

What is a Stoic?