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A person that rules with total authority and usually got their power by force is called a...
Satraps
Tyrant
Strait
Pericles
Which city-state focused on government and education?
Sparta
Minonian
Persia
Athens
Thebes
What were ordinary Greek citizens serving as infantry in the army called?
Hoplites
Those guys
Militia
cavalry
What is a body of land surrounded by water on three sides called?
Peninsula
Island
Continent
City-State
Nicknamed the "Father of History", The History of the Persian Wars was written by
Pericles
Herodotus
Agamemnon
Apasia
Who decides government matters in a direct democracy?
The king
Elected representatives
Women
All the people
When the Spartans needed room for expansion, they..
Bought land from neighbors
Set up colonies in Asia Minor
Conquered neighboring land
All of the above
The Minoans made their living as...
Weavers
Farmers
Soldiers
Traders
Xerxes, was king of __________, leading his army to losses at Thermopylae and Salamis
Crete
Delos
Persia
Athens
The Delian League began as an alliance of Greek city-states to
Protect the Greeks from the Persians
Make Athens rich
Make trade more profitable
Build faster ships
This ruler united the Persian Empire and is known for his fair treatment of people within his empire, but failed to conquer Athens in revenge for Athens' support of an anti-Persian uprising.
Darius
Peisistratus
Solon
Cyrus
The process for a ten-year banning of unpopular or ambitious politicians from the city by popular vote?
Ostracism
Direct Democracy
Age of Pericles
Stoicism
The early Greek city-states, consisting of a city or town and its surrounding countryside:
Polis
Acropolis
Agora
Phalanx
In early Greek city-states, a fortified gathering place at the top of a hill that was sometimes the site of temples and public buildings?
Acropolis
Polis
Agora
Oligarchy
A wall of shields created by foot soldiers marching shoulder to shoulder in a rectangular formation?
Phalanx
Agora
Polis
Acropolis
One of the five-man council elected each year in ancient Sparta who were responsible for executive and administrative functions
Ephors
Socratic Method
Epicureanism
Stoicism
The ________________ is not only the story of the Trojan War, but also the doomed love between Paris and Helen, the cunning of the Mycenaeans' Trojan Horse ploy, and the story of Achilles.
Iliad
Odyssey
Oedipus Rex
Oresteia
___________ codified the laws, but added harsh penalties, including slavery for debtors and death for minor crimes.
Draco
Solon
Pesistratus
Leonidas
Who was the chief deity of the Greek Pantheon of gods?
Zeus
Athena
Apollo
SHAZAM
Who was the Greek Goddess of Wisdom and Art?
Zeus
Athena
Apollo
Artemis
Which group took over the various Greek polis after the decline from the Peloponnesian War?
Macedonians
Dorians
Persians
Germans
What choice best describes the land of the Greek peninsula?
rocky and mountainous, with fertile coastal and inter-mountain plains
flat and swampy, with some islands of fertile soil
desert and barren, no fertile land
humid, grassy rolling plains, with large freshwater lakes
Athens' main rival was the polis of
Anatolia
Marathon
Sparta
Thermopylae
Which of the following describes Spartan women?
They were treated harshly, almost like slaves in most ways.
They mostly fought as soldiers alongside men against the Persians.
They were trained to build up their bodies and were honored to serve Sparta by bearing children
All of the above.
The Greeks believed that the gods lived in
Athens
Heaven
Mount Olympus
Mount Etna
In what way did a boy's life in Athens differ from a boy's life in Sparta?
Athenian boys went to school; Spartan boys served in the military.
Athenian boys studied combat; Spartan boys played sports
Athenian boys lived in barracks; Spartan boys lived at home.
Athenian boys became citizens at 30; Spartan boys became citizens at 18.
The time around 600 BC is called the Dark Age because
People forgot how to make candles
People forgot how to read and write
there was a great famine
there was a terrible plague
In 431 BC Sparta and other city-states joined forces against Athens to fight the
Persian Wars
Trojan War
Greece War
Peloponnesian War
The peninsula on which Athens was located:
Upper Peninsula
Attica
Peloponnesus
Athenic
Two Aegean civilizations that preceded the Greeks were the
Phoenicians
Minoans
Owendalians
Mycenaeans
Greek city-states in Asia Minor that rebelled against Persian rule were in this region:
Crete
Peloponnesus
Eretria
Ionia
What evidence led the Trojans to think they had finally won the Trojan War?
The war continued for a decade until all Greeks were dead.
The Greeks sailed off in their ships, ending the siege.
The Trojans celebrated joyfully until they'd fallen asleep.
The Greeks hid inside the Trojan Horse.
This person was the son of Priam who stole Helen from Sparta and took her back to Troy, starting the Trojan War.
Aphrodite
Athena
Achilles
Paris
According to legend, some 300 Spartans and a few hundred other Greeks held off the Persian army for three days before the Persians eventually defeated them in what famous battle?
Battle of the Greeks
Battle of Thermopylae
Battle of Little Big Horn
Battle of Pericles
Who was the leader of Athens after the defeat of the Persians and took Athens into a "Golden Age" of prosperity and achievement?
Pericles
Leonidas
Themistocles
Socrates
Leonidas
Athenian society DID NOT consider educated women as equal to men.
For instance, women COULD NOT participate in government or own property.
True
False
After the Persian War, Athens and Sparta came into conflict with one another. Eventually, war broke out between the two city-states.
What was this war called?
Persian War II
Greek War
Peloponnesian War
War Between the City-States
Polynesian War
After Sparta defeated Athens and gained control of Greece, the Spartans were able to rule a Greek empire for another 200 years.
True
False
Legendary blind poet, composer of the most famous epics in world history
Marathon
Pericles
Sophocles
Homer
Hellenistic traditions and stories were related in epic poems during the Greek "dark age" by these singing storytellers:
bards
oracles
philosophers
traders
What is the name for the large maze in the palace of King Minos, supposedly built to hold the Minotaur?
Crete
corn maze
laborious
labyrinth
Which group, the first in the region to be armed with iron weapons, took over the remnants of the Aegean Civilizations and ruled during the Greek dark ages?
Macedonians
Dorians
Persians
Atlanteans
The ________________ is the epic story of the Mycenaean king Odysseus' 10 year return to his wife and family in Greece. Now, any long, adventure-filled journey is named after this tale.
Iliad
Odyssey
Oedipus Rex
Oresteia
What type of government do leaders take power by force?
Monarchy
Oligarchy
Tyranny
Democracy
What type of government do only a few people have power?
Monarchy
Oligarchy
Tyranny
Democracy
What Greece city is the birthplace of democracy?
Olympia
Athens
Sparta
Persia
Who are people who have the right to participate in government?
citizens
democrats
republicans
oligarchians
Which Athenian reformer is known as the father of democracy? His constitution allowed all citizens to be on Assembly, increased the power of the Assembly, created a Council of 500, and used a lottery system over a ballot!
Cleisthenes
Pericles
Draco
Sargon
The Battle of Marathon is how we got the term for the modern day marathon race.
True
False
This King of Persia vowed revenge against the Athenians after his father's embarrassing defeat at the Battle of Marathon.
Xerxes
Cyrus the Great
Darius
Pericles
This race was named after the Greek runner, Pheidippies ran over 26 miles to deliver the news that Athens had defeated Persia.
Plateau
Salamis
Marathon
Thermopylae
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