Guided Reading Activity 4-3
A person named as undesirable by at least ____ members of the assembly could be banned from the city for 10 years.
6,000
Meetings of the assembly were held every 10 days on a hillside east of the ____.
Acropolis
This struggle lasted for 27 years until 405 B. C. when the Athenian fleet was destroyed at ______ on the Hellespont.
Aegospotamia
_______ was only 20 when he became king of Macedonia
Alexander the Great
The city of ____ became and remains today one of the most important cities in both ____ and the _______ world.
Alexandria; Egypt; Mediterranean
The patron goddess of Athens was ______.
Athena
There, an outnumbered_____ army attacked and defeated the Persians decisively.
Athenian
This period saw the height of Athenian power and ____.
Brilliance
In the winter of 478-477 B.C the Athenians formed a defensive alliance against the Persians called the _____.
Delian League
In continuing their petty wars, the Greeks ignored the gr0wing power of ___ to their North.
Macedonia
Eventually four Hellenistic kingdoms emerged as the successors to Alexander: ______, _______, ________, and _______.
Macedonia, Syria in east, Pergamum, Egypt
The Greeks viewed their Northern neighbors, the ______ as barbarians.
Macedonians
in 490 B.C the Persians landed on the plain of_____, 26 miles from Athens.
Marathon
Twelve chief gods and goddesses were thought to live on ____
Mount Olympus
Pythagoras taught that the essence of the universe could be found in ______ and _______
Music; Numbers
The most famous building from this time period was the ______
Parthenon
Disputes between Sparta and Athens led to to the outbreak of the Great ____ War in 431 B.C.
Peloponnesian
Under the rule of the dominant figure _____, Athens expanded its new empire abroad.
Pericles
Alexanders invasion of the _______ was motivated by the desire for glory but also by desire to avenge the Persian burning of ____ in 480 B.C.
Persian Empire; Athens
According to legend, an Athenian runner named_____ brought news of Persia's defeat by racing 26 miles from marathon to Athens.
Pheidippides
Early in 479 B.C, the Greeks formed the largest Greek army up to that time and defeated the Persian army at ____.
Plataea
The Socratic method of teaching uses a ________ format to lead pupils to see things for themselves.
Question-and-answer
____ affected every aspect of Greek life.
Religion
Eratosthenes determined that Earth was _____ and calculated its ________ at 24,675 miles.
Round; circumference
The Greek cities of Hellenistic Era became the chief agents in the spread of Greek culture in _________.
Southwest Asia
Epicureans believed that human beings were free to follow ________ as a basic motivating force.
Their own self interests
The world Hellenistic is derived from a Greek word meaning __________.
To imitate the Greeks
The Greeks created drama as we know it in ___ culture.
Western
The Persian king _____, vowed revenge and planned to invade Greece
Xerxes
Some of the finest examples of Greek classical ________ were from the fifth century.
architecture
Hellenistic buildings characteristics of the Greek homeland were ____, ______, and _______.
baths, theaters, and temples
In Athens, every ______ participated in the governing assembly and voted on all major issues.
male citizen
Sophocles most famous play was ______
odepipus, rex
By paying _____ and making lower class citizens eligible for public office, Pericles made it possible for poor citizens to take part in public affairs.
office Holders
The only complete trilogy in existence today is the ____, by Aeschylus.
oresteia
Philosophy refers to an ______ system of thought.
organized
Greek comedy was used to criticize both _____ and ____
politicians; intellectuals
The Parthenon was an expression of Athenian ____ in their city-state.
pride
Greek sculptures did not seek to achieve ______, but rather a standard ideal of beauty.
realism
Plato was fascinated with the question of ______; how do we know what is real?
reality
Archimedes was important because of his work on the geometry of ______ and _______, as well as establishing the value of the math constant _____
spheres; cylinders; pi
According to the _____ happiness could be found only when people gained inner peace by living in ______ with the will of god.
stoics; harmony
the first Greek dramas were ___, which were presented in a trilogy.
tragedies
Greeks considered religion necessary to the _____ of the state.
well-being