Ancient Greece

Question 1

On which continent is Greek located?

Answer 1

Europe

Question 2

Greek legends suggest that the pantheon of gods ruled atop __________.

Answer 2

Mount Olympus

Question 3

Because Greece’s mountains, islands, and peninsulas separated the Greek people from each other and made communication difficult, Greek civilization developed into independent ________.

Answer 3

city-states

Question 4

Around 1200 BCE, the ________ fought a war with the city of Troy. This was is believed to be the basis for the story of the Trojan War in Greek Mythology.

Answer 4

Mycenaeans

Question 5

In approximately 548 BCE, Cyrus, also known as Cyrus the Great, united what most of what is today Iran under his control and established himself as ruler of _________.

Answer 5

Persia

Question 6

In 490 BCE, __________ sent a fleet of Persian ships to conquer Greece. The soldiers landed at the plain of Marathon.

Answer 6

King Darius

Question 7

The ________ won the battle of Marathon.

Answer 7

Greeks

Question 8

After the Persian victory at Thermopylae, Xerxe’s army conquered Athens and _________.

Answer 8

burnt it to the ground

Question 9

Three Hundred ________ died at the battle of Thermopylae.

Answer 9

Spartan soldiers

Question 10

In 480 BCE, the Greeks lured the Persian fleet into a narrow channel between the mainland near Athens and the Greek island of Salamis. The Greeks won the battle of Salamis because of their __________.

Answer 10

triremes

Question 11

The Persian war ended when the Greeks won the battle of __________.

Answer 11

Plataea

Question 12

A system of government where one person -the king or queen-has the power to rule is called a ___________.

Answer 12

Monarchy

Question 13

A system of government where only a few people hold power, which usually consists of the upper classes, and those with the most wealth and property is called a _________.

Answer 13

Oligarchy

Question 14

In _________, all citizens, or members of the city states, share the power of ruling.

Answer 14

Democracies

Question 15

In Athens, a council of _________ men, who were chosen by lot, or lottery, each year, proposed laws.

Answer 15

500

Question 16

True or False

In Athens, women were not considered citizens and did not have any of the rights male citizens enjoyed.

Answer 16

True

Question 17

True or False

Athenians spent most of their time working and could not focus on cultural pursuits.

Answer 17

False

Question 18

True or False

Sparta remained a military oligarchy, while the other city states sifted to tyrannies and democracies.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

True or False

Helots trained for war because the Spartan boys and men were too busy tending the fields.

Answer 19

False

Question 20

Women performed many exercises to become and stay strong, because Spartans believed that strong women produced _____________.

Answer 20

strong babies

Question 21

In 431 BCE, Sparta joined with other disconnected members of the Delian League to fight against Athens in the ______________ War.

Answer 21

Peloponnesian

Question 22

After 25 years, the Peloponnesian War ha not achieved an advantage for either city state In 405 BCE, Sparta sought aid from ____________ to help defeat Athens’s navy.

Answer 22

Persia

Question 23

During the ______ period of ancient, Greece, architecture and the arts flourished and philosophy, the search for wisdom, was developed.

Answer 23

classical

Question 24

______, _______, and _______ were three Greek philosophers whose works have inspired generation of thinkers.

Answer 24

Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

Question 25

__________ is the philosopher who was believed to have served in the Athenian military as a member of the council of 500.

Answer 25

Socrates

Question 26

The approach to teaching that uses a series of questions and that would force a person to examine their opinion and to think more deeply about the issue being discussed is known as the ___________.

Answer 26

Socratic Method

Question 27

__________, one of Socrates most important students, set up a school called the Academy.

Answer 27

Plato

Question 28

After teaching King Philip II of Macedonia’s son, Alexander, for seven years, __________ formed his own school the Lyceum.

Answer 28

Aristotle

Question 29

Pythagoras, a mathematician and philosopher who lived in the six century BCE, led a movement to study the nature of numbers. He and his followers derived the _______________.

Answer 29

Pythagorean Therom

Question 30

Hippocrates wrote an oath that swore to protect patients from harm and and live an ethical life called the ___________.

Answer 30

Hippocratic Oath

Question 31

When the Greeks returned to Athens after the Persian wars, they built a temple dedicated to the goddess Athena called the _______________.

Answer 31

Parthenon

Question 32

______________ is a belief in many gods.

Answer 32

Polytheism

Question 33

The Ancient Greeks believed that 12 major Gods and Goddesses, known as Olympians, lived on ____________, the highest mountain in Greece.

Answer 33

Mount Olympus

Question 34

_________ were part god and part mortal

Answer 34

demigods

Question 35

The Olympic Games, honoring _________, became the most important athletic religious festival.

Answer 35

Zeus

Question 36

True or False

The Greeks held the Olympic Games every ten years

Answer 36

False

Question 37

True or False

One of the best known poets, Homer wrote two of the most influential works ever: the lliad and the Odyssey.

Answer 37

True

Question 38

True or False

Sophocles, one of the best known Greek playwrights, wrote many tragedies including Ajax, Electra, and Oedipus Rex.

Answer 38

True

Question 39

True or False

After Alexander’s victories over the Persians, Alexander led his forces further east to the western boarder of India and then returned to Babylon and began to attempt to establish a government that could rule over the vast empire he had created.

Answer 39

True

Question 40

True or False

Alexander the Great was killed by a Persian soldier

Answer 40

False

Question 41

True or False

The intermingling of Greek and Asian cultures produces a unique civilization called the Grasian culture.

Answer 41

False

Question 42

True or False

By 220 BCE, Romans began to gain control of Greece. Eventually, all of Greece was absorbed into the Roman Empire.

Answer 42

True