Historical Overview of ancient Greece

Question 1

What is ancient Greece located on?

Answer 1

A peninsula jutting out into the Mediterranean Sea.

Question 2

What are the two seas surrounding Greece?

Answer 2

The Aegean Sea, to the east, and the Ionian Sea, to the west.

Question 3

What is another name for southern Greece?

Answer 3

Peloponnesus.

Question 4

Why is Greece unsuitable for farming?

Answer 4

The climate and land were poor.

Question 5

When did the Mycenaeans settle in Peloponnesus?

Answer 5

Around 2000 BCE.

Question 6

Who attacked the city of Troy, and when did they do it?

Answer 6

The Mycenaeans attacked Troy in 1194 BCE.

Question 7

What was the Iliad about?

Answer 7

The deeds of the heroes in the Trojan War.

Question 8

What is the Odyssey about?

Answer 8

The adventures of a Trojan War hero as he traveled home to Greece after the war.

Question 9

What two geographical features isolated the people of Greece from each other and caused them to form city-states?

Answer 9

Mountains and valleys.

Question 10

Upper Class in Athens

Answer 10

Free male land-holding citizens born in Athens.

Question 11

Middle Class in Athens

Answer 11

Foreign-born merchants.

Question 12

Lower Class in Athens

Answer 12

Slaves.

Question 13

Why were women not considered citizens in Athens?

Answer 13

Because they could not take part in the government.

Question 14

Who reigned during the Athenian Golden Age?

Answer 14

Pericles.

Question 15

What was the Golden Age of Athens?

Answer 15

A 30-year-long period of growth in the arts & sciences.

Question 16

Upper Class in Sparta

Answer 16

Adult free male citizens.

Question 17

Middle Class in Sparta

Answer 17

Foreign-born merchants.

Question 18

Lower Class in Sparta

Answer 18

Slaves called Helots who had been taken as prisoners after wars.

Question 19

True or False: Women in Sparta could own land, but they weren’t considered citizens.

Answer 19

True

Question 20

When did the Persian Wars take place?

Answer 20

From 500 to 480 BCE

Question 21

When did the Peloponnesian Wars take place?

Answer 21

From 429 to 404 BCE

Question 22

What did Alexander the Great accomplish?

Answer 22

He ruled all of the known world until his death.

Question 23

When did the Hellenistic Age start?

Answer 23

In 323 BCE, when Alexander the Great died.

Question 24

What was the Hellenistic Age?

Answer 24

A time when Greek cultured combined with the cultures of Eastern lands conquered by Alexander.

Question 25

What happened in 31 BCE?

Answer 25

The Romans conquered Greece.