Ancient Greece

Question 1

Polis

Answer 1

a city-state

Question 2

Acropolis

Answer 2

a high hill where a fortress could be built

Question 3

classical

Answer 3

a period that is marked by great achievements

Question 4

democracy

Answer 4

a type of government in which people rule themselves

Question 5

aristocrats

Answer 5

rich landowners

Question 6

oligarchy

Answer 6

a government in which only a few people have power

Question 7

citizens

Answer 7

people who had the right to participate in government

Question 8

tyrant

Answer 8

a leader who held power through the use of force

Question 9

Pericles

Answer 9

a brilliant leader who led democracy in Athens from 460 BC until 429 BC

Question 10

mythology

Answer 10

a body of stories about gods and heroes that try to explain how the world works.

Question 11

Homer

Answer 11

a poet who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey

Question 12

Sappho

Answer 12

a woman poet who wrote lyric poems about love and relationships with friends and family.

Question 13

Aesop

Answer 13

writer who wrote fables

Question 14

fables

Answer 14

short stories that teach the reader lessons about life or give advice on how to live.

Question 15

agora

Answer 15

marketplace, a meeting place where religious and political events took place.

Question 16

Greece’s Geography is mostly

Answer 16

A rocky, mountainous land

Question 17

Greece is a large

Answer 17

Peninsula

Question 18

Travel by land was difficult. What did the Greeks do instead?

Answer 18

Became expert shipbuilders

Question 19

These people built a society on Crete

Answer 19

The Minoans

Question 20

The Minoans lived

Answer 20

On Greek islands

Question 21

The Mycenaeans lived

Answer 21

On Greek mainland

Question 22

The Minoans ended because…

Answer 22

Of a volcano eruption

Question 23

The Greeks traded with other cultures to…

Answer 23

Obtain food and goods and to trade ideas and beliefs.

Question 24

The period of war and disorder is called

Answer 24

The Dark Age

Question 25

Greek colonies and a polis were similar because…

Answer 25

they were both independent

Question 26

Name some Greek Colonies

Answer 26

Naples, Italy
Marseillaise, France
Istanbul, Turkey

Question 27

How did people in Greek city-states think of themselves?

Answer 27

As citizens of the city-state NOT Greece

Question 28

The first Greek society

Answer 28

Mycenaeans

Question 29

What items did the Greeks trade?

Answer 29

Metals, wine, olive oil

Question 30

Those who lived in a city-state lived…

Answer 30

Inside the city walls AND outside.

Question 31

Which leader did democracy work best under?

Answer 31

Pericles

Question 32

What is a representative democracy?

Answer 32

Citizens elect officials to make the laws.

Question 33

Why do juries have odd number of people?

Answer 33

To prevent ties

Question 34

The government in which only a few people have the power is called….

Answer 34

An oligarchy

Question 35

Who ruled city-states?

Answer 35

Aristocrats

Question 36

Why did people have meetings outdoors?

Answer 36

To make sure everyone could attend

Question 37

What does democracy mean?

Answer 37

Rule of the people

Question 38

What was the first democracy in Athens like?

Answer 38

Every citizen had the right to speak.

All citizens had the right to participate in the assembly.

Question 39

Greek myths explain….

Answer 39

why natural or historical events happened.

Question 40

A lyric poem is….

Answer 40

a poem set to music

Question 41

Why did people visit the oracle at Delphi?

Answer 41

to ask the god Apollo questions