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Ancient Greeks - Sparta & Athens
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1
How long was the Trojan War?
5 years
10 years
8 years
1 year
2
What is an acropolis?
Government building
Top of the city
temple
Where the gods live
3
When did the Mycenaean civilization collapse?
Never
1500 B.C.E.
1200-1100 B.C.E.
1650
4
What did
not
happen during the Dark Ages of Greece?
people became poor
the alphabet was lost
trade flourished
art declined
5
What does
polis
mean?
Politician
Person
Temple
City
6
Mycenaeans buried the dead in hillside tombs. What was the tunnel to the tomb called?
dromos
Minoan
minotaur
polis
7
Which government today was influenced by Athenian democracy?
China
Brazil
The United States
North Korea
8
What was the role of the 2 kings of Sparta?
Politicians
Generals
Approving proposals
Kings
9
Greece is a peninsula. What is a peninsula?
land next to a lake
another word for island
land with water on 3 sides
land with water on both sides
10
Where is the (possibly legendary) city of Troy?
Modern day Turkey
North Africa
Peloponnese
Greece
11
Who lived on the Island of Crete?
Mycenaeans
Minoans
Spartans
Greeks
12
What is democracy?
Rule of many
King or queen
Rule by many
Rule by a few
13
Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?
Plato
Pericles
Sparta
Homer
14
As Greeks started ______________ in Italy, France, and Spain, they spread their culture
colonies
wars
agoras
peninsulas
15
What is an agora?
a temple
a city
Open space for assemblies and markets
a book
16
Who were the helots?
Slaves who worked the land for food for Athens
Foot soliders
Youth in Sparta
Slaves who worked the land for food for Sparta
17
What is an oligarchy?
Elections
Rule by a few
an assembly
Rule by many
18
What is Knossos?
Minoan word for queen
Name of the Minotaur
A city in Greece
A palace
19
Athens exercised ostracism every year. What is ostracism?
Banishing someone from the city
Kicking someone out of office
Appointing someone to office
Electing someone to office
20
What food did the Mycenaeans
not
cultivate?
Beef
Olives
Wine
Grapes
21
Who is in the Parthenon?
Zeus
Aphrodite
Hercules
Athena
