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Philip
________ intended to lead a combined Greek force in a war of revenge and conquest against Persia.
Alexander
________ worked to unite Greek and Persian culture and society.
Athenian philosophers
________ were affected by failure of Greek political forms, oligarchy, and democracy.
Aristarchus of Samos
________ theorized that the sun and fixed stars were motionless and that the earth moved around the sun.
Sparta
________ invaded Attica, triggering the Peloponnesian War, which would destroy both powers.
Peloponnesian War
The ________ showed the limitations of Athenian democracy and the potential brutality of the oligarchy as well.
Hellenistic cities
________ were Greek in physical organization, constitution, and language.
Hellenistic medicine
________ combined theory and observation.
Alexandria
________ attracted the greatest scholars and poets of the Hellenistic world.
military genius
Alexanders ________, dedication to troops, reckless disregard for his own safety, and ability to move men and supplies across large distances at great speeds inspired the war machine developed by Philip.
Xerxes
________ lost his appetite for fighting Greeks after events occurring at Salamis.
Slaves
________ were as much the property of their owners as land, houses, cattle, and sheep.
Sophists
________ taught a generation of wealthy Greeks the powers and complexities of human reason.
Pericles
________ was president of the commission that constructed the statue of Athena that stood in the Parthenon.
Sculptures
________ reflected development towards balance and realism within an ideal of human form.
Participation
________ always occurred with a network of familial, social, and religious connections and obligations.
Plato
________ argued that true knowledge was impossible as long as it focused on the constantly changing, imperfect world of everyday experiences.
Sophocles
________ was the most successful tragedian in the 5th century.
Art of persuasion
________ was significant in the political world.
Critical
________ and rational nature was a primary characteristic of Athenian culture.
ancient philosophy
Much of ________ was dominated by Platos idealist view of knowledge.
Athenian empire
________ was an economic, judicial, religious, and political union held together by military might.
Polis
________ had never been the only form of Greek state.
Triumph of democracy
________ reduced the public role of all women.
Alexanders conquests
________ transformed the political map of southern Europe, eastern Asia, and Egyptian Africa.
Athens
________ was an important, crowded capital drawing merchants, artisans, and laborers throughout the Greek world during the second half of 5th century B.C.E.
Hellenist writers
________ developed new forms of literature.
Hipparchus of Nicaea
________ placed the earth at the center of the universe and was supported by more mathematically acceptable arguments.
Delian League
The ________ was too important to Athenian prosperity to stand and fall with the Persian threat.
Hellenistic architects
________ developed more elaborate and monumental buildings and combined the buildings in harmonious urban ensembles.
Drama
________ became popular not only in Athens but throughout the Greek world since its introduction in 6th century B.C.E.
Demagogues
________ tended to be wealthy aristocrats who could afford to put in the time demanded by voluntary services.
Philip
________ intervened in war between Thebes and Phocis.
Alexander
________ died after his return from India at the age of 32, in 323 B.C.E.
Pericles
________ was a general, he never ruled Athens.
Plato
________ was aristocratic student of Socrates.
Peloponnesian War
________ touched all aspects of Greek Life.
Plato
________ used dialogue in the form of discussions for transmit his teachings.
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