Ancient Greece

Question 0

What was the ancient Greeks strove for a kind of _______ that they called a arête?

Answer 0

Excellence

Question 1

Who was the poet who wrote Iliad and the odyssey

Answer 1

Homer

Question 2

The Iliad and the odyssey were examples of what?

Answer 2

Epic poems

Question 3

During the eight century B.C., the Greeks adopted a new system of writing based on what

Answer 3

The Phoenician alphabet

Question 4

Greece’s geography is 80%..

Answer 4

Mountains

Question 5

Greeks history was influenced by greece’s what?

Answer 5

Mountains and seacost

Question 6

The teachings of Homer promoted what?

Answer 6

The values of courage, honor, and excellence

Question 7

Where did some Greeks settle during the dark age?

Answer 7

In Ionian, part of the Asia Minor.

Question 8

What were the two major groups that settled within Greece itself?

Answer 8

Aeolians and Dorians

Question 9

What was the first Greek state?

Answer 9

Mycenae

Question 10

Who captured by the Spartans and forced to work as serfs?

Answer 10

Helots

Question 11

What was a fortified area on a hilltop?

Answer 11

Acropolis

Question 12

Who was a heavily armed foot soldiers?

Answer 12

Hoplites

Question 13

Who was the Athenian reformer who came to power in 594 BC?

Answer 13

Solon

Question 14

Who were the elected members of Sparta’s oligarchy?

Answer 14

Ephors

Question 15

A young spartan warrior was told by his mother to return from the war by either ..

Answer 15

Carrying his shield or being carried on it.

Question 16

The reforms of cleisthenes did what

Answer 16

Laid the foundations of democracy

Question 17

The word Spartan has come to mean what?

Answer 17

Highly self-disciplined

Question 18

The tyrants of Ancient Greece were what?

Answer 18

Rulers who seized power by force

Question 19

By 750 BC, what became the central focus of Greek life.

Answer 19

The polis

Question 20

In Athens, during the Age of Pericles, every male citizen was able to do what?

Answer 20

Was eligible to vote on all major issues.

Question 21

After losing the battle of Thermopylae to the Persians, the Athenians did what?

Answer 21

Abandoned their city

Question 22

What factors cause Athens to established itself as a leading trade center?

Answer 22

The city-state had a large population and not enough fertile land to grow, so it had to import many products.

Question 23

In 479 BC, a large and unified Greek army did what?

Answer 23

They defeated the Persians.

Question 24

The peloponnesian war, was a result of what?

Answer 24

Ongoing disputes between the Athenians and the Sparta’s.

Question 25

The major gods and goddesses of the Greeks were believed to live on what?

Answer 25

Mount Olympics

Question 26

Who was the most famous Socrates ?

Answer 26

Plato

Question 27

What was the most famous building on the acropolis in Athens ?

Answer 27

Parthanon

Question 28

What was one of the subjects that Aristotle wrote about what?

Answer 28

Ethics/government

Question 29

Who was thr god that associated with the most famous oracle in Ancient Greece?

Answer 29

Apalo

Question 30

The ancient Greeks considered religion was…

Answer 30

Necessary to the well-being of the state

Question 31

Which Greek playwright wrote Oedipus Rex?

Answer 31

Sophocles

Question 32

According to Plato, a good life can only be achieved if a person does what?

Answer 32

Lives in a just mad rational state