Lessons 3-11

Question 1

the record of people as they relate to other people and to other nations

Answer 1

political history

Question 2

earliest Greek historian

Answer 2

Herodotus

Question 3

It was the lot of Hellas to have its season for more failry tempered than other lands.”

Answer 3

Herodotus

Question 4

the response or message given by god to people

Answer 4

oracle

Question 5

dwelling place of the gods

Answer 5

Mount Olympus

Question 6

father of gods and men

Answer 6

Zeus

Question 7

wife of Zeus

Answer 7

Hera

Question 8

chief nymph of the gods

Answer 8

Pan

Question 9

“Nothing in excess.”

Answer 9

inscription on temple

Question 10

an event with five different contests

Answer 10

pentathlon

Question 11

“If you have exercised youself in a manner worthy of hte Olympic Festival, if you have been guilty of no slothful or ignoble act, go on with a good courage. You have to so practiced, go whither you will.”

Answer 11

official motto of the Olympic Games

Question 12

system of leaders and laws that maintain order in a state

Answer 12

government

Question 13

city with surrounding territory that is politically independent

Answer 13

city-state

Question 14

“The city is well fortified which hath a wall of men instead of brick.”

Answer 14

Lycurgus

Question 15

wise man and lawgiver of Sparta

Answer 15

Lycurgus

Question 16

“The city is well fortified which hath a wall of men instead of brick.”

Answer 16

Lycurgus

Question 17

wise man and archon of ancient Greece

Answer 17

Solon

Question 18

“The gods, O King, have given the Greeks all other gifts in moderate degree, and so our wisdom, too, is a cheerful and homely, not a noble and kingly wisdom, and him only to whom the divinity has continued happiness unto the end, we call happy.”

Answer 18

Solon

Question 19

small group of people who have control of a country

Answer 19

oligarchy

Question 20

fortress on high ground that protects a city

Question 21

Greek rulers who seized power without legal right.

Answer 21

tyrants

Question 22

Greek colony

Answer 22

Ionia

Question 23

Ionian poet

Answer 23

Homer

Question 24

a drink poured out as an offering to a god

Answer 24

libation

Question 25

Athenian who ran to Sparta to request help and ran to Athens to declare the Athenian victoy over the Persians

Answer 25

Pheidippides

Question 26

battle between Athenians and Persian army

Answer 26

Battle of Marathon

Question 27

“Athens is saved!”

Answer 27

Pheidippides

Question 28

part of the Persian army always containing ten thousand men

Answer 28

the Immortals

Question 29

place of battle between Spartans and Persians

Answer 29

Pass of Thermopylae

Question 30

“I may have take vengeance on the Athenians for all the things which they have done both to the Persians and to my father. I will not cease until I have conquered Athens and burnt with with fire.

Answer 30

Xerxes

Question 31

king of Sparta

Answer 31

King Leonidas

Question 32

Date of Battle at the Pass of Thermopylae

Answer 32

480 B.C.

Question 33

year of the First Olympic Games

Answer 33

776 BC