Deck 4

Question 1

What animal was particularly important in religious beliefs of the Minoans?

Answer 1

Bull

Question 2

What writing script was used to write the earliest forms of Greek?

Answer 2

Linear B

Question 3

Who wrote the Tortoise and the Hare, and many other fables?

Answer 3

Aesop

Question 4

What type of government means “rule by few”?

Answer 4

Oligarchy

Question 5

What type of government did Sparta have?

Answer 5

Oligarchy (although they were also a monarchy, because they had two kings?

Question 6

What was the name of the ceremonial capital city of the Persian empire?

Answer 6

Persepolis

Question 7

What was the name of the Spartan king killed at the Battle of Thermopylae?

Answer 7

Leonidas

Question 8

What were the long walls?

Answer 8

Walls built by the Athenians to connect their city with the port city of Piraeus

Question 9

What was Sparta’s plan to win the Peloponnesian war?

Answer 9

Invade Athenian territory, burn the Athenian farms and olive trees, drawing the Athenians out from behind their walls to fight

Question 10

What Greek city-state defeated Sparta in 371 BC?

Answer 10

Thebes

Question 11

What Greek writer wrote a history of Persian wars?

Answer 11

Herodotus

Question 12

How many kings did Sparta have?

Answer 12

Two