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1
What peninsula is home to ancient Greece?
Yucatan
Italian
Korean
Balkan
2
What sea is located to the east of the Balkan Peninsula, separating Greece & Anatolia?
Ionian
Mediterranean
Black
Aegean
3
Who is the man that ended debt slavery in Athens?
Socrates
Alexander
Darius
Solon
4
Which philospher wrote
The Republic
because he did not agree with the workings of democracy?
Plato
Pericles
Sophocles
Socrates
5
Which of the following, by Sophocles, was about a man who killed his dad & married his mom?
Oedipus
Medea
Prometheus Bound
Lysistrata
6
Which mathematician developed this theorem: a
2
+ b
2
= c
2
Euclid
Pythagoras
Archimedes
Aristarchus
7
Who said the sun is bigger than the earth and that it lay at the center of the universe?
Aristarchus
Ptolemy
Eratosthenes
Archimedes
8
What was the battle tactic used by the Athenians to defeat the Persians?
dory
phalanx
cavalry
helot
9
It is the place where temples were built in Greek city states.
Parthenon
agora
polis
acropolis
10
The greatest of all Alexandrias was located here.
Greece
Macedonia
Anatolia
Egypt
11
Who developed a lever and pulley system, accurately estimated pi, and created the first screw?
Archimedes
Aristarchus
Euripides
Eratosthenes
12
Why did the Greeks fight the Trojans?
conquer land
Paris kidnapped Helen
to try out their wooden horse?
Troy owed them money
13
The term for a Greek city state
polista
acropolis
agora
polis
14
What alliance was created by the Greek city states to fend off further attacks by the Persians?
Persian
Periclean
Peloponnesian
Delian
15
Which philosopher taught Plato and was condemned to death for corrupting the youth?
Aristotle
Socrates
Eratosthenes
Sophocles
16
The Athenians defeated the Persians at what naval battle?
Marathon
Artemesium
Salamis
Thermopylae
17
What city did the Greeks sail to in order to bring home Helen, their queen?
Crete
Athens
Troy
Delphi
18
When the Persians launched their SECOND attack against the Greeks, who was their leader?
Darius
Xerxes
Cyrus
Alexander
19
Which of these was NOT a nomadic group that settled down in Greece?
Macedonians
Minoans
Mycenaeans
Dorians
20
At what age did a Spartan child have to join the military?
7
9
5
12
21
What text contains the thoughts of Euclid?
Analects
Elements
Ramayana
Republic
22
What is the term used for the art of skillful speaking?
discussion
rhetoric
rubric
debate
23
Who believed in order to properly depict/record history you must do research?
Thucydides
Homer
Herodotus
Livy
24
Who wrote Medea, a comedy?....It is not Tyler Perry
Sophocles
Euripides
Aristophones
Aeschylus
25
Which of the following cannot be found in the orange shaded region
Museum
Hanging Gardens
Library
Pharos Lighthouse
26
Who wrote Lysistrata, a comedy?
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Aristophones
Euripedes
27
Which of the following was NOT a Greek playwright?
Hippocrates
Sophocles
Aristophanes
Aeschylus
28
What type of government did Cleisthenes create?
legislative democracy
limited democracy
direct democracy
democratic republic
29
What is this temple built to honor Athena called?
Parthenon
Athens
Phidias
Pantheon
30
Who is the father of modern medicine due to his ethical beliefs in the medical profession?
Eratoshenes
Archimedes
Hippocrates
Euripides
31
Who was a blind poet who wrote the
Iliad
and
The Odyssey?
Homer
You Better Get This
If you don't get this, I will tell your English teacher :)
Agamemnon
32
What is a government which is ruled by members of the upper class, known as aristocrats?
democracy
monarchy
oligarchy
aristocracy
33
What city state dominated the Delian League?
Thebes
Athens
Delphi
Sparta
34
What empire attempted to take over Athenian colonies in Asia Minor (Anatolia)?
Assyrian
Trojan
Persian
Mongol
35
Who said the earth lay at the center of the universe (geocentric theory)?
Archimedes
Eratosthenes
Ptolemy
Aristarchus
36
Which of the following was not true of Greek plays
stadiums
yearly competitions
tragedies and comedies
masks
37
Who believed that you must avoid pleasures and had a philosophy termed Stoicism?
Epicurus
Zeno
Siddhartha
Euripides
38
How old was Alexander the Great when he took over and when he died?
20,32
23,32
20,30
23,30
39
Who accurately estimated earth's circumference (within 1% of actual size)?
Eratosthenes
Aristarchus
Archimedes
Ptolemy
40
What was the name of the battle where the "Last Stand" of the Spartan 300 took place?
Leonidas
Thermopylae
Marathon
Salamis
41
Who wrote Prometheus Bound, a tragedy?
Aristophones
Euripides
Sophocles
Aeschylus
42
Who was the leader of the Persians when they FIRST tried to take Athens?
Cyrus
Alexander
Xerxes
Darius
43
The story of the Trojan War is retold in the
Republic
Iliad
Trojan War
Odyssey
44
Who instituted direct democracy in Athens, leading to a golden age named for him?
Pericles
Cleisthenes
Xerxes
Themistocles
45
What caused over 33% of the Athenian population to die during the Peloponnesian War?
ebola :)
plague
plaque
epedimiology
46
What were Persian soldiers called?
Corinthians
Indestructables
Immortals
Mortals
47
Who was the father of modern day geometry?
Euclid
Pythagoras
Aristarchus
Archimedes
48
Who is known as the "father of history" for his work in writing The Persian Wars?
Livy
Homer
Herodotus
Thucydides
49
Who ran 26.2 miles from Marathon to Athens delivering the news of Greek victory?
Phidias
Eratosthenes
Pericles
Pheidippedes
50
Which region was considered to be "backwards" by the Greeks?
Persia
Macedonia
Sparta
Egypt
51
Which philosopher stressed compromise or the "golden mean?"
Plato
Sophocles
Socrates
Aristotle
52
What type of a government is ruled by a small group of middle class citizens?
aristocracy
tyranny
monarchy
oligarchy
53
Who stressed the avoidance of bias in recording the Peloponnesian Wars?
Thucydides
Livy
Homer
Herodotus
54
What city state started as a monarchy and ended up as a direct democracy?
Troy
Olympia
Athens
Sparta
55
What geographical feature caused Greece to be independent city states?
islands
seas
mountains
rivers
56
Who wrote Oedipus, a tragedy?
Aristophanes
Aeschylus
Sophocles
Socrates
57
Which philosopher used questioning techniques to reach his students?
Alexander the Great
Plato
Socrates
Aristotle
58
Which of the following was not part of the Hellenistic Culture?
Persian
Gaelic
Indian
Egyptian
59
Which of the following plays was a comedy about the Peloponnesian War?
Prometheus Bound
Iliad
Oedipus
Lysistrata
60
How long was the run from Marathon to Athens, giving us the modern day length of a marathon?
26.2 kilometers
262 miles
26.2 miles
2.6 miles
61
Who won the Persian Wars?
Sparta
Greece
Athens
Persia
62
During which war did this take place?
Trojan
Alexander's war on Persia
Peloponnesian
Persian
63
What is the type of government in which thousands of people were needed to make all decisions?
limited democracy
democratic republic
legislative democracy
direct democracy