Two Small Cities in One Small Land

Question 1

What were the Three most important tribes that the Greeks belonged in?

Answer 1

the Dorians, Ionians, and Aeolians

Question 2

What United the Greeks?

Answer 2

Their Religion and their Sports

Question 3

What was the Prize for winning at Olympia?

Answer 3

A Simple Garland made from Sprigs of wild olive.

Question 4

Victory Statues were made because

Answer 4

The Greatest Sculptors wanted to honor the winners of Olympia.

Question 5

What is another thing that brung the Greeks together?

Answer 5

The Delphic Oracle

Question 6

Why did Greeks from everywhere Come to Delphi and make Pilgrimages?

Answer 6

They wanted to Consult the God named Apollo

Question 7

What was the Answer that they Received that was Often Far from Clear?

Answer 7

“Oracular”

Question 8

Who were the Spartans?

Answer 8

They were Dorians who Enslaved the Former Inhabitants after Arriving in Greece around 1100 BC.

Question 9

What actions are Required for a young spartan during life?

Answer 9

They must train from Dawn to Dusk, and learn to endure pain, hunger, and the cold. And must eat poorly, and be denied all pleasure.

Question 10

What was the Spartan that worked at Thermoplyae in 480 BC?

Answer 10

The Spartans allowed themselves to be massacred by the Persians.

Question 11

What did the Athenians aim to do with their Lives?

Answer 11

Not Live an Easy and Comfortable Life.

Question 12

Why did the Athenians have fewer reasons to be Afraid?

Answer 12

The Athenians didn’t live under the same pressures like the Spartans and their Slaves.

Question 13

Why were things different for the Athenians, unlike Sparta?

Answer 13

Because the Nobles of Sparta who once ruled Athens imposed harsh laws drawn up by an Athenian named Draco.

Question 14

Why did people still speak of Draconian Severity?

Answer 14

Because the laws were So Strict.

Question 15

Since the Laws were so Strict, What Happened?

Answer 15

a Nobleman who had the wisdom tried to give the little state a new system of Government.

Question 16

What did Solomon’s Laws State after he Introduced laws in 594 BC?

Answer 16

They Stated the people should decide the city’s Affairs themselves.

Question 17

What Else did Solomon’s Laws state?

Answer 17

They should Assemble a Place to Vote in the marketplace and that the Majority should decide and should elect a council to put the decisions into Effect.

Question 18

What is this type of Government called?

Answer 18

a Democracy, or ‘The rule of the people’, in Greek.

Question 19

Even though the type of Government is called a Democracy, what did it not mean?

Answer 19

It didn’t mean that Everyone who lived in Athens was entitled to vote in the Assembly.

Question 20

What did Citizenship depend on?

Answer 20

Wealth and Influence

Question 21

Many people, including Women and Slaves, played no part in the Government. What is the Exception?

Answer 21

Many of the Athenians could at least have their Say, and so they took an interest in how their city was Run.

Question 22

What does “Polis” mean in Greek?

Answer 22

City

Question 23

What does “politics’ mean in Greek?

Answer 23

the Affairs of a city.

Question 24

Athenians were Scared of losing their freedom, so it led them to ban any politician who showed signs of becoming too popular. Who Escaped this?

Answer 24

A guy name Pericles

Question 25

Since Pericles was so Intelligent and Wise, What did he become later on in 444 BC?

Answer 25

Pericles became the City’s Sole Ruler