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Ancient #Greece from the #Minoan Age through the #Hellenistic age.
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1
Father of Geometry, wrote
The Elements
Pythagoras
Euclid
Archimedes
Socrates
2
The term for a Greek city-state.
Polis
Urban Center
Hellenic State
Metropolis
3
The government of Sparta was a(n)?
Aristocracy
Direct Democracy
Representative Democracy
Oligarchy
4
Letter A is the city of:
Troy
Sparta
Knossos
Athens
5
First scientific historian, wrote about the Peloponnesian War.
Homer
Herodotus
Thucydides
Pericles
6
The father of medicine.
Aristophanes
Aristotle
Hippocrates
Homer
7
A Greek infantryman was called a
Legionnaire
Hoplite
Phalanx
Centurian
8
After the fall of the Mycenaean Civilization, Greece entered:
The Bronze Age
The Minoan Period
A Golden Age
A Dark Age
9
What type of column is this?
Doric
Corinthian
Ionic
10
This region revolted in 499 BCE, sparking the first Persian War.
Mycenae
Macedonia
Ionia
Attica
11
Battle in second Persian war where the Spartans held off the Persian advance.
Thermopylae
Platea
Salamis
Marathon
12
King of the Greek gods.
Zeus
Poseidon
Saturn
Jupiter
13
Government by the rich, upper-class, landowners. Second stage of Athenian Government.
Democracy
Monarchy
Aristocracy
Tyranny
14
The Iliad and Odyssey center around this conflict
The Trojan War
The Peloponnesian War
The Persian Wars
The Punic Wars
15
Athenian Tyrant who enacted land reform, taking land from the rich and giving it to the poor.
Solon
Cleistenes
Pisistratus
Pericles
16
Number 2 is
Asia Minor
The Balkan Peninsula
Attica
The Peloponnesus Peninsula
17
Greek Philosopher, tutor of Alexander the Great, believed knowledge gained by observation.
Euclid
Archimedes
Plato
Aristotle
18
Greek father of Comedy
Aeschylus
Aristophanes
Sophocles
Archimedes
19
Letter B is the polis of:
Sparta
Corinth
Thebes
Athens
20
What type of column?
Corinthian
Doric
Ionic
21
What peninsula is the number 1?
Iberian
Balkan
Scandinavian
Asia Minor
22
Culture created and spread by Alexander.
Hellenistic
Persian
Greco-Roman
Hellenic
23
Greek Philosopher, believed in world of Forms, wrote
The Republic
, describing an ideal state.
Plato
Archimedes
Aristotle
Socrates
24
Artifacts such as this tell us the Mycenaeans were greatly focused on:
Leisure activities
Peace
Trade
War
25
This man ruled during the Golden Age of Athens and expanded democracy.
Pisistratus
Pericles
Aristotle
Draco
26
Greek and Roman god of the sun and the arts.
Apollo
Aphrodite
Athena
Artemis
27
Athenian Tyrant who ended debt slavery
Draco
Pericles
Cleisthenes
Solon
28
Greek goddess of wisdom
Athena
Aphrodite
Juno
Minerva
29
Bronze Age poet of the
Iliad
and
Odyssey
Homer
Virgil
Aeschylus
Herodotus
30
Queen of the Greek gods
Hera
Juno
Athena
Venus
31
Unlike many other ancient cities, Minoan cities did not have
Fortifications
A governmental structure
Organization
Sanitation
32
Father of History, wrote about the Persian Wars.
Thucydides
Herodotus
Livy
Plutarch
33
The early Greeks lacked arable land, so many were forced to spread out and establish
Exclusion Zones
Empires
Trade Routes
Colonies
34
The Greek gods had these characteristics
Human
Antropromorphic
Misanthropic
Animal
35
League led by Sparta to counter the Delian League
Peloponnesian League
Macedonian League
Tracian League
Corinthian League
36
The Minoan civilization was centered on this island.
Sicily
Attica
The Peloponnesus
Crete
37
Letter C is the polis of:
Athens
Sparta
Thebes
Troy
38
What region is the area numbered 9?
The Crimea
Asia Minor
Attica
Macedonia
39
Greek playwright of
Opedius Rex
Socrates
Euripides
Aeschylus
Sophocles
40
Athenian Tyrant who codified the law.
Draco
Pisistratus
Solon
Cleisthenes
41
The first stage of the government of Athens
Oligarchy
Aristocracy
Democracy
Monarchy
42
The Athenians won victories over the Persians at the battles of:
Marathon and Alexandria
Marathon and Thermopylae
Marathon and Salamis
Thermopylae and Salamis
43
Father of Alexander the Great, he conquered and united the Greeks.
Cleopatra VII
Darius I
Cyrus the Great
Philip II
44
Greek goddess of the hunt and wild.
Apollo
Artemis
Athena
Aphrodite
45
Greek god of the underworld
Hermes
Pluto
Hades
Zeus
46
Twenty-Seven year war between the Delian and Peloponnesian Leagues won by Sparta.
Corinthian War
Peloponnesian War
Delian War
Persian War
47
Father of Greek Tragedy, credited with writing
The Persians
and
The Oresteia.
Aristophanes
Euclid
Sophocles
Aeschylus
48
Greek scientist & mathematician who worked w/ volume as well as the lever and pulley. Eureka!
Archimedes
Pythagoras
Euclid
Newton
49
What type of column?
Ionic
Doric
Corinthian
50
Greek mathematician associated with this formula
Pythagoras
Archimedes
Euclid
Solon
51
After the Persian Wars the Greeks formed this league to defend against invasion.
Greek Confederation
Peloponnesian League
Delian League
Macedonian League
52
The Mycenaean civilization was the first to speak this language.
Greek
Farsi
Urdu
Latin
53
Athenian Tyrant who made the reforms leading to Democracy.
Solon
Cleisthenes
Pericles
Draco
54
Greek Philosopher said "Know Thyself" put to death for corrupting Athenian youth.
Archimedes
Plato
Aristotle
Socrates
55
The upper part of a Greek Polis
Acropolis
Forum
Agora
Bazaar
56
This river served as the eastern border of Alexander's empire.
Indus
Ganges
Huang He
Tigris
57
What body of water is number 6?
Mediterranean Sea
Black Sea
Sea of Marmara
Aegean Sea
58
What waterway is the number 3?
Strait of Gibraltar
Dardanelles
Bering Strait
Bosporus