Questions From The Book

1. Direct Democracy: A government where all people vote directly for what they want.
Classical art: The creation of art from the way the Greeks had made art in realism without definite reality.
Tragedy: A play where the hero dies in the end.
Comedy: A play where it shows a lightened mood sometimes without laughter.
Peloponnesian War: The war fought between Athens and Sparta and their allies.
Philosopher: The meaning is 'lovers of wisdom' and they tried to discover their surroundings using thought.
Socrates: A great philosopher that challenged morals and the gods.
Plato: He challenged the government and wrote the conversations by Socrates.
Aristotle: He was a philosopher that challenged the natural world and the ideas of it.


3. Pericles spoke well for the people of Athens and he pressed for the people to have their way.
4. Athens had tried to wait for the right time to invade Sparta and waited in their homes for Sparta to invade. Sparta tried to take the food supplies from the Athenians and blocked them out of the land.
5. The people did not like to think that their way of life was wrong and they did not like a challenge to what they believed.