Ancient Greeks 9-12

Question 1

Euxine

Answer 1

Greek name for the coasts along the Black Sea

Question 2

Ionia

Answer 2

Greeks Colony

Question 3

Miletus

Answer 3

Ionian Philosopher and scientist

Question 4

Anaximander

Answer 4

Ionian Scientist and mapmaker

Question 5

Hecataeus

Answer 5

Ionian Geographer

Question 6

Homer

Answer 6

Ionian poet

Question 7

Magna Graecia

Answer 7

Greek Colonies founded in Southern Italy

Question 8

Sappho

Answer 8

Ionian female poet

Question 9

Croesus

Answer 9

King of Lydia

Question 10

Cyrus

Answer 10

King of Persia

Question 11

Sardis

Answer 11

Capital of Lydia

Question 12

Colonize

Answer 12

to settle in a new land

Question 13

Gaud

Answer 13

Completely ornamental

Question 14

science

Answer 14

Finding the natural cause for things

Question 15

Pyre

Answer 15

A burial that is set on fire

Question 16

Libation

Answer 16

a drink poured out as an offering to a deity.

Question 17

bade

Answer 17

advised

Question 18

What did a body of men have to do after they had decided to sail away and found a colony

Answer 18

Consult the Oracle of Delphi

Question 19

How did Cyrus defeat the Lydians

Answer 19

Led all camels to the front of the battle lines so that the horses ran away

Question 20

Darius

Answer 20

King of Persia

Question 21

Susa

Answer 21

Capital of Persia empire

Question 22

Mardonius

Answer 22

General of the Persian

Question 23

Pheidippides

Answer 23

Athenian who ran to Sparta to request help and ran to Athens to declare the Athenian at Marathon

Question 24

Battle of Marathon

Answer 24

Battle between Athenians and Persian Army

Question 25

Miltiades

Answer 25

Athenian General at Marathon

Question 26

Sepulcher

Answer 26

a small room or monument, cut in rock or built of stone, in which a dead person is laid or buried.

Question 27

Succor

Answer 27

assistance and support in times of hardship and distress.

Question 28

Grotto

Answer 28

a small picturesque cave, especially an artificial one in a park or garden.

Question 29

How did the persians fight against the Persians

Answer 29

They led the Persians in a strange campaign and totally bamboozled them

Question 30

What gifts did the king of Scythia send to Darius

Answer 30

He sent a bird, a mouse ,a frog, and a five arrows. They meant that “Unless ye become birds and fly up to heave, or become mice and sink down under the earth or become frogs and leap into the lakes, ye shall not return back home, but shall be smitten by these arrows.

Question 31

Xerxes

Answer 31

king of Persia; son of Darius

Question 32

The Immortals

Answer 32

part of Persian army always containing ten thousand men

Question 33

King Leonidas

Answer 33

King of Sparta

Question 34

Pass of Thermopylae

Answer 34

Place of battle between Spartans and Persians

Question 35

Themistocles

Answer 35

Athenian Admiral

Question 36

ominous

Answer 36

Mysterious

Question 37

What nations made up the Persian army

Answer 37

Assyrians, Scythians, Caspians, Arabians, Ethiopians (ASCAE; All Shall Carry An Eukaryote)

Question 38

Themistocles

Answer 38

Athenian admiral; Defeated Persians at Artemisium

Question 39

Aristeides

Answer 39

Themistocles rival, called the just

Question 40

Ostracism

Answer 40

Law in Athens banishing a citizen for 10 years

Question 41

Pausanias

Answer 41

King of sparta during the Plataea

Question 42

Battle of Plataea

Answer 42

Final land battle between Greeks and Persians

Question 43

Vehement

Answer 43

showing strong feeling; forceful, passionate, or intense.

Question 44

Impetuous

Answer 44

acting or done quickly and without thought or care.

Question 45

Sagacity

Answer 45

the quality of being sagacious.

Question 46

Ostracism

Answer 46

exclusion from a society or group.

Question 47

Ostrakon

Answer 47

a potsherd used as a writing surface.