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1
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How long did Ancient Greece last?

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2500 BC- 30 BC

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2
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What do all Greek city-states have in common?

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Language and religion

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3
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Where is Greece?

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Southern part of the Balkan Peninsula an island near the Aegean Sea

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True or False: Greece is the biggest influence on the Western World?

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True

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What are some contributions from Greece?

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Government, philosophy, medicine, science, art, architecture, athletics, writing, history, lesiure

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6
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True or False: Some places in Greece are more than fifty miles from the coast

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False

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7
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What is the climate in Greece?

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Mild

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8
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What are the two leading city-states in Greece?

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Athens and Sparta

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9
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How far are Athens and Sparta?

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150 miles apart

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10
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Spartans are descendants from what?

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Dorian Invaders

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11
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Where is the Peloppensian Peninsula?

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The southern piece of Grecce. Corinth, Sparta

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12
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True or False: All life revolved around the army in Sparta

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True

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13
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Why are newborn babies sometimes left on a hillside to die?

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If they aren’t healthy they can’t serve Sparta in there eyes.

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14
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What age were Spartan boys were required to be taken from and placed in military barraks?

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Age 7

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15
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What is the training called?

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Agoge

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16
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How long did Spartans have to serve in the military?

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Served until they were 60

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17
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How many kings controlled the Spartan army?

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2 kings

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18
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What is the Athenian Peninsula called?

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The Attican peninsula

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19
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True or False: Elected officials ran day-to-day operations

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True

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20
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Who are Athenians descendants?

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Mycenaeans

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21
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True or False: Athens has a strong military

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False: Athens have a strong navy

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22
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What age did boys ave to serve in the navy?

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At age 18

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23
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When did democracy develop in Athens?

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600-500 BCE

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24
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What is the meaning of a city-state?

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A city that operates as an independent country

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25
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What are the city-states in Greece?

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Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Thebes, Delphi, Megara

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26
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What is Oligarchy?

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Rule of a privileged few

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27
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What is democracy?

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Rule of the people

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28
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What is tyranny?

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Rule by force (Bad today, not necessarily bad then)

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29
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True or False: They allowed women to vote

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False: Just men but they couldn’t be slaves or foreigners

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30
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What is ostracizion?

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When they banish somebody for 10 years

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31
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Who are the Minoans?

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The first great civilization of Ancient

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32
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What are the Minoans known for?

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Known for their grand palaces and arts

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33
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True or False: Bulls were regarded as sacred

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True

34
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What was a way to worship the bull?

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Bull sports

35
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What is a frescoe?

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A wall painting

36
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Who are the Myceneans?

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Warriors, Great traders, and Sailors

37
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When did they reach there height of power?

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1600 BCE

38
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What is the language known as?

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Linear-B

39
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Where did they build there kingdoms?

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On hilltops

40
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True or False: The Minoans conquered the Mycenaeans

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False: The other way around

41
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True or False: The Trojan War happened and the Mycenaenas collapsed

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True

42
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Iron vs. what?

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Bronze

43
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Who were telling people about the Mycenaean traditions?

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Bards

44
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What is a Bard?

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A singing storyteller

45
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What is an Epic Poem?

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A long story in the form of a poem dealing with a serious subject

46
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Who was Homer?

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A blind poet during the dark ages and composed two famous epics the Iliad and the Odyssey

47
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Who was the German Archaeologist that looked through the ruins of Ancient Troy in 1870?

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Heinrich Schliemann

48
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How long does the war with Troy last?

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About 10 years

49
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What was the trick that was used against the Trojans after the 10 year period?

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Trojan War

50
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Greece is the what to Europe?

A

The gateway

51
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True or False: The Greek city-states come together for the first time to overthrow the Persians

A

True

52
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Who was the historian that recorded these events fifty years later?

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Herodotus

53
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Who did Persia conquer that eventually got Athens involved?

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Ionia

54
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Why does the King of Persia (Darius) swear vengeance on Athens

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They helped the Ionians rebel against Persia and it wasn’t there fight now it is

55
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True or False: Darius starts sending out his army to Marathon to eventually fight the Athenians

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True

56
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How many men did the Persian army have?

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25,000 men roughly

57
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How many men did the Athenian navy have?

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10,000 men roughly

58
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What was the name of the runner that delivered messages to the Spartans and eventually dropped dead later on?

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Phidippides

59
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True or False: Athens lost a lot of men

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False: They lost only 192 men while the Persians 6,400

60
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Why was the Battle of Marathon so signficant?

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It showed that the Persians weren’t impossible to beat
Showed that strategy and smart weaponry can win not just strength or size
And gave Greece a reason to believe in themselves

61
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What is the name of King Darius’s son?

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Xerxes

62
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How many Persian soldiers inavaded Greece the second time?

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250,000 men roughly

63
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What was the name of the Athenian soldier who
lead them at Thermopylae?

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Themistocles

64
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True or False: Te battle was at a narrow mountain pass

A

True

65
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True or False: The Spartans refused to help in the second battle

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False: Athenians were led by Spartan King

66
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True or False: There was a Greek traitor that sold out the Athenians and led them another way

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True

67
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Why couldn’t the Persian ships go through the strait?

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There ships were to big

68
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True or False: Greeks lost the Salamis battle

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False: They won

69
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What was the biggest Persian War?

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Plataea

70
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How many Greeks faced the Persian army?

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50,000

71
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How many Persians faced the Greeks?

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75,000-100,000

72
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What stops Westward Expansion from the Greeks?

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The Persian Wars

73
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How long does the Golden Age last for Greece?

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200 years

74
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What is the Golden Age also called?

A

Classical Age Of Greece

75
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Who does the plays in Greece?

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Sophocles

76
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How has the mathematician Archimedes influenced culture today?

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Water screw - Archimedes screw is a machine that is used to bring water out of the ground. He also invented the formula for the surface area and volume of a sphere.

77
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How has the father of medicine Hippocrates, influenced culture today?

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Influence in modern medicine: medical terms, diagnosis, Hippocratic Oath

78
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How has the father of democracy Cleisthenes, influenced culture today.

A

Many countries have a democracy as their government

79
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What does Hellenistic mean?

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All things Greek

80
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Phalanx

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body of heavily armed infantry

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