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The Culture of Ancient Greece
and Alexander the Great
Review
______ are traditional
stories about gods and
heroes.
Myths are traditional
stories about gods and
heroes.
The 12 most important
gods and goddess lived on
Mount __________.
The 12 most important
gods and goddess lived on
Mount Olympus.
Aphrodite is the goddess
of ______ and beauty.
Aphrodite is the goddess
of love and beauty.
To find out about the
future, many Greeks
visited an ______, which
is a sacred shrine where a
priest or priestess spoke
for a god or goddess.
To find out about the
future, many Greeks
visited an oracle, which is
a sacred shrine where a
priest or priestess spoke
for a god or goddess.
Based on the Mythology
video, Pandora’s box, the
last creature that came
out of the box was a girl
with wings that said to
trust in her. Her name
was ___________.
Based on the Mythology
video, Pandora’s box, the
last creature that came
out of the box was a girl
with wings that said to
trust in her. Her name
was Hope.
An ______ is a long poem
about heroic deeds.
An epic is a long poem
about heroic deeds.
__________ was a poet
who wrote the Iliad and
the Odyssey.
Homer was a poet who
wrote the Iliad and the
Odyssey.
The Iliad is a story about
the Trojan War. To
capture the city of Troy,
the Greeks built a Trojan
______ and hid inside it to
attack at night.
The Iliad is a story about
the Trojan War. To
capture the city of Troy,
the Greeks built a Trojan
horse and hid inside it to
attack at night.
A slave named _______
wrote many fables during
Ancient Greek times. One
of them was the Tortoise
and the Hare.
A slave named Aesop
wrote many fables during
Ancient Greek times. One
of them was the Tortoise
and the Hare.
What is a fable?
A fable is a short tale that
teaches a lesson. In most
fables, there are animals
that talk and act like real
people.
________ wrote the plays
Oedipus and Antigone.
Sophocles wrote the plays
Oedipus and Antigone.
Greek columns were first
made out of wood, but
were later made out of
_____________.
Greek columns were first
made out of wood, but
were later made out of
marble.
The word philosophy
comes from the Greek
word for “love of ______”
The word philosophy
comes from the Greek
word for “love of wisdom”
______ was a philosopher
who used the Socratic
Method of teachingasking questions to make
people think about their
actions, thoughts, and
feelings.
Socrates was a
philosopher who used the
Socratic Method of
teaching- asking questions
to make people think
about their actions,
thoughts, and feelings.
______ was Plato’s
student who even tutored
Alexander the Great. He
wrote 200 books on
philosophy and science.
Aristotle was Plato’s
student who even tutored
Alexander the Great. He
wrote 200 books on
philosophy and science.
Herodotus was known as
the “father of _____.”
Herodotus was known as
the “father of history.”
Thucydides was a Greek
historian who wrote The
History of the
Peloponnesian War, which
is about the conflict
between Athens and
________.
Thucydides was a Greek
historian who wrote The
History of the
Peloponnesian War, which
is about the conflict
between Athens and
Sparta.
Philip II was the king of
_____ who needed to
unite with Greece to
defeat the Persian Empire.
Philip II was the king of
Macedonia who needed to
unite with Greece to
defeat the Persian Empire.
Alexander’s legacy was
the spread of ______
culture throughout
southwest Asia and
northern Africa.
Alexander’s legacy was
the spread of Greek
culture throughout
southwest Asia and
northern Africa.
During the Hellenistic Era,
mathematicians made
major contributions.
Write one math concept
that the Ancient Greeks
came up with.
- Geometry : how points,
lines, angles relate to one
another
- studied spheres,
cylinders, pi
-used geometry to invent
the catapult
In the late 200s B.C.,
_________, a city-state in
Italy, conquered the
Italian peninsula, and
began expanding into
Greece.
In the late 200s B.C.,
Rome, a city-state in Italy,
conquered the Italian
peninsula, and began
expanding into Greece.