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| 5137236507 | Greece | 45,000 sq. miles, mountainous terrain (city-states/rivalry), sea trade | 0 | |
| 5137245752 | Minoan Crete | 2800 BCE: Bronze Age civilization, sea travel (trade with Egypt), height 200-1450 BCE...bathrooms and drains | 1 | |
| 5137262205 | Mycenae | 1600-1100 BCE...indo-european, warrior people, Greek city-state, extensive commercial network, Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (these people in Trojan war?), golden death mask | 2 | |
| 5137286981 | Greek Dark Age | 850 BCE-farming recovered, large numbers of people left mainland and migrated across the Aegean Sea (Persian Wars), iron replaced bronze, adopted Phoenician alphabet | 3 | |
| 5137309676 | The Iliad, Homer | Story: During siege of Troy, the arrogant, yet powerful, Achilles refuses to fight over a stolen woman (Helen), changes his mind after friend is killed...and written by who? | 4 | |
| 5137312847 | The Odyssey, Homer | Story: Odysseus returning to Penelope-20 years later...written by who? | 5 | |
| 5137326784 | polis | small, but autonomous political unit in which all major political, social, and religious activities were carried out at one central location | 6 | |
| 5137338995 | hoplites | heavily armed infantrymen- bronze/leather helmets, breastplates and greaves | 7 | |
| 5137351290 | tyrants | usurpers of power-needed support of the new rich and poor peasants (both groups were against oligarchies)...worked to keep people happy | 8 | |
| 5137362616 | Sparta | military state, highly self-disciplined people, boys sent to military barracks at a young age, women had more freedoms and were trained in wrestling, etc., "come home with your shield or on top of it" | 9 | |
| 5137393167 | Athens | monarchy to oligarchy (small group of ruling aristocrats) to tyranny (cruel and unfair treating ruler) to democracy, Delian League, had a strong navy, family was the central unit of society | 10 | |
| 5137433964 | the reforms of Solon | 594 BCE, Athenian statesman, cancelled land debts, didn't redistribute land | 11 | |
| 5137460156 | the reforms of Cleisthenes | noble Athenian, created Council of 500 (chosen by lot), his reforms created a foundation of the Athenian democracy | 12 | |
| 5138714261 | Persia | largest empire of the time, zoroastrianism, Darius (attacked mainland Greece...Battle of Marathon), Xerxes (revenge, Battle of Thermopylae) | 13 | |
| 5138765034 | Peloponnesian War | Sparta and Peloponnesian League vs. Athens and Delian League...lasted long time, Sparta won | 14 | |
| 5138783635 | Classical Greece | intellectual and cultural growth for Greece | 15 | |
| 5138818995 | Thucydides | better historian who wrote The History of the Peloponnesian War | 16 | |
| 5138849406 | Orestia | written by Aeschylus...evil acts breed evil acts | 17 | |
| 5138857736 | greek drama | limited action, emphasis on story and meaning | 18 | |
| 5139146367 | Oedipus the King | written by Sophocles, fate foretells prince will kill his father and marry his mother...man cannot change fate | 19 | |
| 5139157951 | Lysistrata | written by Aristophanes...opposition to the Peloponnesian War | 20 | |
| 5139162512 | greek art | expressed eternally true ideas, standards of ideal beauty | 21 | |
| 5139171603 | Polyclitus | wrote Doryphoros on use of ideal proportions mathematical ratios found in nature | 22 | |
| 5139181547 | Pythagoras | believed the essence of the universe is found in music and numbers | 23 | |
| 5139188202 | Sophists | similar to Confucianists, understand the universe is beyond reach of human mind...relative truth | 24 | |
| 5139202958 | Socrates | socratic method, absolute truth, hemlock | 25 | |
| 5139208111 | Plato | student of Socrates, wrote The Republic, The Cave...The Academy | 26 | |
| 5139213850 | Aristotle | student at Academy of Plato, tutor of Alex the Great, women as infertile men...wrote Politics | 27 | |
| 5139255043 | greek religion | temples dedicated to gods, 12 gods on Mt. Olympus, festivals to honor them (Olympics), Oracle- Delphi | 28 | |
| 5139314825 | Macedonia | Alexander the Great conquered a lot of land (Darius III of Persia lost to him) and spread hellenistic culture, Phillip II conquered Greece | 29 | |
| 5139362558 | Aristarchus | heliocentric view | 30 | |
| 5139364817 | Eratosthenes | earth was round and calculated the circumference of the earth | 31 | |
| 5139380916 | Euclid | Book Elements-Geometry | 32 | |
| 5139383904 | Archimedes | cylinders/screw/compound pulley | 33 | |
| 5139388001 | Epicureanism | humans should follow self interest as basic motivating force, happiness=goal of life, free oneself from public affairs and politics...Epicurus | 34 | |
| 5139402174 | Stoicism | Happiness, the supreme good, found in living in harmony with divine will, life's problems couldn't bother their inner peace, public service as noble...Zeno | 35 | |
| 5139418781 | The cult of isis | centered around the Egyptian deities Isis and Osiris. Its Roman origins are placed in the early empire, which would make it very likely that the Egyptian campaigns of the Second Triumvirate (most likely under Marcus Antonius) brought the cult to Rome | 36 |
