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The Persian Wars
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1
After the Battle of Marathon, Pheidippides ran back to Athens and declared "Victory" which in Greek is _________
Nike
Adidas
Converse
Puma
2
Why was the man scared of the tree?
Because of its bark
Because it was tall
3
The Persian Empire stretched from Greece to the _____________________ River in India.
Amazon
Tigris
Indus
Nile
4
From the novel
1984
: "History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always ____.
wrong
right
5
When the Persians ordered Leonidas and his Spartans to throw down their weapons he replied _________________________.
"Okay, sure"
"Come and Take Them!"
6
Thermopylae was a narrow pass where the ______________________took their stand against the much larger Persian army.
300 Minions
300 Athenians
300 Snorlaxes
300 Spartans
7
The sea east of Egypt is called the _________ Sea.
Red
Black
Mediterranean
White
8
Herodotus was influenced greatly by ___________, the author of
The Iliad.
Homer
Ovid
Virgil
Socrates
9
The founder of the Persian Empire was ________________________.
Herodotus
Cyrus the Great
J Fuego
Darius III
10
The Trojan War began because the Trojans kidnapped ___________, the wife of a Greek king.
Nancy
Betty
Helen
Kelly
11
The Jewish Festival of Lights is called __________________________.
Rosh Hoshanah
Hanukkah
Yom Kippur
Passover
12
Name this best selling female author.
J.K. Rowling
Queen Isabella I
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Whitney Houston
13
The historian ________________________ wrote about the wars between the Greeks and the Persians.
Arrian
Socrates
Herodotus
Thucydides
14
The star in the middle of the flag of Israel is called the Star of ___________________
David
Abraham
Solomon
Isaac
15
Name this flying Battle Cat
UFO Cat
Fish Cat
Tank Cat
Axe Cat
16
Herodotus is called the "father of history" because he was the first to use _______________ to verify what he wrote
sources
old wives tales
newspapers
anything he heard
17
The Persian Empire was finally defeated in 330 B.C. by__________________________________________.
Cyrus the Great
Alexander the Great
Peter the Great
Rameses the Great
18
When they drop the puck to start a hockey game it is called a __________________
tip off
kick off
first pitch
face off
19
Spartan boys left their families when they were seven years old and lived in ______________ with other boys.
barracks
tents
dorm rooms
hotels
20
Athens was named after the Greek goddess of wisdom ___________________.
Hera
Athena
Aphrodite
Demeter
21
When the Greeks could not get into Troy, they ________________ and came out at night.
ran away
hid in a wooden horse
wrote a letter of protest
took an airplane
22
Herodotus wrote mostly about the Greeks wars with the __________________.
Persians
Americans
Egyptians
Romans
23
The island south of Greece is ____________________.
Key West
Sakhalin
Crete
Hawaii
24
Athens was different than Sparta because they valued learning over military training.
True
False
25
The Spartans valued military training over art and reading
True
False
26
The Greeks were told that the Persians would “Darken the sky with arrows”. The Spartans replied “This is good news ___
we will fight in the shade
we will put up our shields
we will give up now
we will run away
27
Name this extra mysterious Pokemon
Glaceon
Espeon
Leafeon
Jolteon
28
Name this Spanish Queen
Isabella I
Victoria I
Mary II
Elizabeth II