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Ancient #Greece from the #Minoan Age through the #Hellenistic age.
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Artifacts such as this tell us the Mycenaeans were greatly focused on:
Peace
War
Leisure activities
Trade
2
Greek goddess of wisdom
Juno
Athena
Aphrodite
Minerva
3
Queen of the Greek gods
Hera
Juno
Athena
Venus
4
This man ruled during the Golden Age of Athens and expanded democracy.
Pisistratus
Pericles
Draco
Aristotle
5
Government by the rich, upper-class, landowners. Second stage of Athenian Government.
Democracy
Aristocracy
Monarchy
Tyranny
6
What peninsula is the number 1?
Balkan
Iberian
Scandinavian
Asia Minor
7
Athenian Tyrant who made the reforms leading to Democracy.
Draco
Pericles
Cleisthenes
Solon
8
Battle in second Persian war where the Spartans held off the Persian advance.
Salamis
Platea
Marathon
Thermopylae
9
The father of medicine.
Aristophanes
Hippocrates
Aristotle
Homer
10
Greek playwright of
Opedius Rex
Aeschylus
Euripides
Socrates
Sophocles
11
Number 2 is
Attica
Asia Minor
The Balkan Peninsula
The Peloponnesus Peninsula
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After the Persian Wars the Greeks formed this league to defend against invasion.
Macedonian League
Peloponnesian League
Delian League
Greek Confederation
13
Greek mathematician associated with this formula
Pythagoras
Solon
Archimedes
Euclid
14
Greek Philosopher, tutor of Alexander the Great, believed knowledge gained by observation.
Archimedes
Aristotle
Plato
Euclid
15
A Greek infantryman was called a
Legionnaire
Centurian
Phalanx
Hoplite
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Greek Philosopher said "Know Thyself" put to death for corrupting Athenian youth.
Archimedes
Plato
Socrates
Aristotle
17
The Minoan civilization was centered on this island.
Crete
Attica
The Peloponnesus
Sicily
18
Culture created and spread by Alexander.
Hellenic
Persian
Hellenistic
Greco-Roman
19
The upper part of a Greek Polis
Agora
Acropolis
Bazaar
Forum
20
Greek and Roman god of the sun and the arts.
Athena
Apollo
Aphrodite
Artemis
21
League led by Sparta to counter the Delian League
Macedonian League
Peloponnesian League
Tracian League
Corinthian League
22
Greek god of the underworld
Hermes
Pluto
Zeus
Hades
23
The Athenians won victories over the Persians at the battles of:
Marathon and Alexandria
Marathon and Salamis
Thermopylae and Salamis
Marathon and Thermopylae
24
Father of Alexander the Great, he conquered and united the Greeks.
Darius I
Cyrus the Great
Philip II
Cleopatra VII
25
Letter B is the polis of:
Corinth
Thebes
Sparta
Athens
26
Athenian Tyrant who codified the law.
Cleisthenes
Solon
Pisistratus
Draco
27
This river served as the eastern border of Alexander's empire.
Huang He
Tigris
Ganges
Indus
28
Greek goddess of the hunt and wild.
Athena
Artemis
Apollo
Aphrodite
29
This region revolted in 499 BCE, sparking the first Persian War.
Attica
Macedonia
Ionia
Mycenae
30
The Mycenaean civilization was the first to speak this language.
Urdu
Farsi
Latin
Greek
31
What region is the area numbered 9?
Attica
The Crimea
Asia Minor
Macedonia
32
Athenian Tyrant who enacted land reform, taking land from the rich and giving it to the poor.
Cleistenes
Pericles
Solon
Pisistratus
33
Father of Geometry, wrote
The Elements
Archimedes
Euclid
Socrates
Pythagoras
34
The first stage of the government of Athens
Aristocracy
Monarchy
Democracy
Oligarchy
35
Father of Greek Tragedy, credited with writing
The Persians
and
The Oresteia.
Euclid
Aristophanes
Aeschylus
Sophocles
36
Letter C is the polis of:
Athens
Sparta
Troy
Thebes
37
The Iliad and Odyssey center around this conflict
The Persian Wars
The Peloponnesian War
The Punic Wars
The Trojan War
38
Greek scientist & mathematician who worked w/ volume as well as the lever and pulley. Eureka!
Archimedes
Euclid
Pythagoras
Newton
39
Greek father of Comedy
Aristophanes
Archimedes
Aeschylus
Sophocles
40
Greek Philosopher, believed in world of Forms, wrote
The Republic
, describing an ideal state.
Plato
Aristotle
Archimedes
Socrates
41
What type of column is this?
Doric
Corinthian
Ionic
42
What body of water is number 6?
Aegean Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Black Sea
Sea of Marmara
43
Bronze Age poet of the
Iliad
and
Odyssey
Aeschylus
Virgil
Herodotus
Homer
44
What type of column?
Doric
Ionic
Corinthian
45
After the fall of the Mycenaean Civilization, Greece entered:
The Minoan Period
A Dark Age
The Bronze Age
A Golden Age
46
King of the Greek gods.
Saturn
Poseidon
Zeus
Jupiter
47
Unlike many other ancient cities, Minoan cities did not have
A governmental structure
Fortifications
Sanitation
Organization
48
Letter A is the city of:
Athens
Sparta
Knossos
Troy
49
The term for a Greek city-state.
Metropolis
Urban Center
Hellenic State
Polis
50
The early Greeks lacked arable land, so many were forced to spread out and establish
Empires
Exclusion Zones
Trade Routes
Colonies
51
What type of column?
Ionic
Doric
Corinthian
52
Athenian Tyrant who ended debt slavery
Solon
Draco
Cleisthenes
Pericles
53
The Greek gods had these characteristics
Misanthropic
Animal
Antropromorphic
Human
54
What waterway is the number 3?
Dardanelles
Bosporus
Strait of Gibraltar
Bering Strait
55
Twenty-Seven year war between the Delian and Peloponnesian Leagues won by Sparta.
Peloponnesian War
Persian War
Corinthian War
Delian War
56
First scientific historian, wrote about the Peloponnesian War.
Pericles
Thucydides
Homer
Herodotus
57
Father of History, wrote about the Persian Wars.
Plutarch
Herodotus
Thucydides
Livy
58
The government of Sparta was a(n)?
Representative Democracy
Aristocracy
Oligarchy
Direct Democracy