World History - Chapter 3

BJU Curriculum

Hellenistic

spreading of Greek Culture

Epicureans and Stoics

Mocked Paul when he visited Athens

Democracy

Type of government during the Age of Perciles

Military

Spartan’s focus

Philip II

Alexander’s Father

Philip II

United the Macedonians

Sparta and Athens

Fought in the Polyponnesian War

Thermopylae

Name of Mountain pass where Spartans fought to the death

Darius III

Ran off and Alexander captured his family

Eratosthenes

Determined the circumference of the world

Monarchy, Oligarchy, Democracy, Tyranny

Kinds of government of Greek

Oligarchy

Sparta’s type of Government

Geography

Why the Greeks were unable to have political unity

Dorians

Invaders that invaded the Mycenaeans

Homer

Another name for the Greek Dark Ages

Euclid

Wrote the Geometry Book “Elements”

Sophocles

Writer of tragedy

Aristophanes

Writer of comedy

Hippocrates

Father of Medicine

Euclid

Father of Geometry

Iliad and Odyssey

Homer’s works

poetry

Iliad and Odyssey is a form of

Delian League

Alliance between Greek city-states

Tyranny

Rule by force

Oligarchy

Rule by a few

Anthropomorphic

Human form attributes

Xerxes

King that led an invasion of Greece, boats

Democracy

Rule by the people

Polis

Basic form of Greek government

Helots

Spartans called their slaves

Herodotus

Wrote about the Persian Wars

Herodotus

Father of History

Plato

taught Aristotle

Aristotle

taught Alexander the Great

Crete

Island that was the earliest center of the Aegean civilization

monarchy

Rule by one

To please Zeus

Why the Greeks had the Olympic Games

Peloponnesian League

Sparta’s League to protect against foreign invasions

Athens

Became the leading city state of Greece after the Persian War

Homer’s works

Why the Dark Ages were called the Homeric Age

Dominant culture

How Greek Mythology was treated in Greek culture

Athens

City-state that wanted individualism and democracy

Aristotle

Invented syllogism

Aristotle

Wrote the Organon

Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic

Greek order of sculpture

Country

Athens acts more like a

city-states

Describes Sparta and Athens

Doric, Ionian, Corinthian

Types of Columns

Three hundred Spartan fought to the death in a mountain pass

Occurred at the Battle of Thermopylae

Myths and exaggerations

Herodotus used ____ to influence his writing of Greek history