McDougal Littell World History: Patterns of Interaction

Alexandrias museum

________ contained a small observatory in which astronomers could study the plants and stars.

Monarchy

________: when a single person, called a king, ruled in a government.

Pericles

________ used the money from the leagues treasury to make the Athenian navy the strongest in the Mediterranean.

Draci

________ developed a legal code based on the idea that all Athenians, rich and poor, were equal under the law.

Alexander

________ had learned science, geography, and literature.

Xerxes

________ assembled an enormous invasion force to crush Athens.

Epicurus

________ founded the school of thought called Epicureanism.

Sea raider

________ attacked and burned many Mycenaean cities.

Wealthy citizens

________ bore the cost of producing the plays.

Sparta

________ had the most powerful army in Greece.

historians

Some ________ believe that he (Homer) composed his epic celebrating heroic deeds, between 750- 700 B.C.

Astronomers

________ accepted this view for the next 14 centuries.

Strong rulers

________ controlled the areas around other Mycenaean cities, such as Tiryns and Athens.

Aristophanes

________ wrote the first great comedies for the stage.

military

The ________ allowed Pericles to treat other members of the Delian Leagues as part of the empire.

Acropolis

________: thar agora, or marketplace that citizens gathered at to discuss city government.

Athenian leader Cleistenes

The ________ introduced further reforms.

Prosperity

________ depended on gaining access to the surrounding waterways.

Hellenistic world

What was in decline? Answer with a single words or term.

Euclid

________ was a highly regarded mathematician who taught in Alexandria.

women

What were able to learn how to read and write? Answer with a single words or term.

Stoics

________ proposed that people should live virtuous lives in harmony with the will of god or the natural laws that God established to run the universe.

Trojan War

The ________ forms the backdrop for one of Homers great epic poems, the Iliad.

Aristocracy

________: when a government ruled by a small group of noble serving in a kings military cavalry.

Plato

Sometime in the 370s B.C. ________ wrote his most famous work, The Republic.