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- 1. Multiple Choice
The area separated from mainland Greece by the narrow Isthmus of Corinth
Laconia
Hellas
Peloponnese
Eurotas
- 2. Multiple Choice
A military dining club
kleros
polis
stasis
syssition
- 3. Multiple Choice
governing council of rich land-owning aristocrats
oligarchy
democracy
monarchy
aristocracy
- 4. Multiple Choice
ancient Greek heavy infantry
peltast
psiloi
myrmidon
hoplite
- 5. Multiple Choice
society ruled by fathers
polytheism
panhellenic
patriarchal
polis
- 6. Multiple Choice
good order
eunomia
stasis
phylai
obai
- 7. Multiple Choice
a chief magistrate of Sparta
gerontes
ephors
ekklesia
homoioi
- 8. Multiple Choice
What year (circa) was Sparta was founded in....
800 BC
550 BC
1000 BC
900 BC
- 9. Multiple Choice
When did the First Messenian War occur?
640-620 BC
480 BC
730 - 710 BC
800 BC
- 10. Multiple Choice
The Battle of Leuctra took place in the year...
479 BC
550 BC
352 BC
371 BC
- 11. Multiple Choice
Which of the following was a Spartan king?
Castor
Aristote
Alkman
Agis
- 12. Multiple Choice
Who was the Spartan general at the Battle of Plataea
Lycurgus
Pausanias
Leonidas
Cleomenes
- 13. Multiple Choice
Who was the author of 'Hellenica'
Xenephon
Herodotos
Thucydides
Plutarch
- 14. Multiple Choice
Name the mountain range to the west of Sparta
Eurotas
Parnon
Taygetus
Tyrtaeus
- 15. Multiple Choice
helots granted their freedom for some special action such as bravery in battle
mothax
neodamodeis
hypomeiones
parthenaiai
- 16. Multiple Choice
Daughter of king Cleomenes who married Leonidas
Cynisca
Helen
Gorgo
Hippeis
- 17. Multiple Choice
Name the god of whom the kings were high priests
Zeus Lakedaimon
Apollo Karneios
Artemis Orthia
Zeus Ouranios
- 18. Multiple Choice
Which of these is NOT a Spartan religious festival
Gymnopeadia
Krypteia
Karneia
Hyakinthia
- 19. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is NOT part of how Sparta was governed...
Ephorate
Gerontes
Ekklesia
Syssition
- 20. Multiple Choice
Which of the following were allowed to be buried in Sparta
Spartiate
Women who dies in childbirth
Kings
Spartans who died in battle
- 21. Multiple Choice
Name the Greek philosopher who critical of Sparta
Alkman
Pausanias
Aristotle
Plutarch
- 22. Multiple Choice
Name the author of 'History of the Peloponnesian War'
Timon
Tyrtaeus
Alcibiades
Thucydides
- 23. Multiple Choice
Name a Spartan writer from the 7th century BC
Alkman
Tyrtaeus
Brasidas
Lysander
- 24. Multiple Choice
Name for one of the Spartan royal families
Dioskuri
Agiad
Eurypontid
Hereclidae
- 25. Multiple Choice
Which of the following was NOT a Spartan general
Lysander
Alcibiades
Gylippus
Brasidas
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