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