Lesson 2: Beliefs & Customs

Chapter 12: Classical Greece Lesson 4 – The Legacy of Greece

Padawan Learning Activity, Option A

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Directions – Read pages 411 – 417 in your “Ancient Civilizations” textbook and then answer each question in complete sentences.

1. What were the Greeks the first to build in the western world?

2. Describe what actors wore and what the stage sets looked like.

3. What were the two forms of drama?

4. Define comedy and tragedy and provide early Greek examples of each one.

5. Define “ideal” in regards to Greek art work.

6. Based on what you have read and learned, describe how the concepts and styles of Greek architecture and art are still influential today. 7. What were the Greeks among the first to write down?

8. How did Thucydides write such accurate accounts of the Peloponnesian War?

9. What is philosophy?

10. What is the Socratic Method?

11. Who were two of Socrates’ greatest students?

12. Based on what you have read and learned, explain the basis of Western knowledge from Greek study of logic and reason.

13. Based on what you have read and learned, trace the development of the scientific standards from Hellenistic science (Include the following areas: astronomy, math, and physics).