Reviewing Facts 1-9

1. The Iliad and the Odyssey are epic poems that have been the work of many people but are credited by the poet Homer.

2. The Mountains divided the Balkan Peninsula into isolated valleys.

3. Spartan males prepared to be part of a military state from childhood. Females were expected to produce healthy sons for the army by training and exercising to strengthen their bodies.

4. Athens began to pay salaries to men who held public office and they had a direct democracy by having a large number of male citizens take part in the day-to-day affairs of the government.

5. The results were the Greek increased sense of their own uniqueness and Athens emerged from the war as the most powerful city-state in Greece.

6. Athenian greatness ended after the Peloponnesian war.

7. The Socratic Method is a questioning process to help others seek truth and self-knowledge.

8. Alexander the Great found many new cities which he named most of them after him, and from Egypt to the Fertile Crescent to the borders of India, Greek temples were built. A blending of eastern and western cultures occurred.

9. A blend of Greek, Persian, Egyptian, and Indian influences formed the Hellenistic civilization.