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Ancient Greece Quiz Bowl!
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1
The word in Greek for city-state
delian
polis
demo
cracy
2
What large body of water was to the SOUTH of Greece mainland?
Mississippi River
Atlantic Ocean
North Sea
Mediterranean Sea
3
Which modern country is NOT a democracy today?
United States
Greece
Canada
Russia
4
The geography of Greece made all of the follow difficult EXCEPT
Farming enough food for the population
Travel
growing grain crops, like wheat
Tavel by boat
5
In what way is ancient Greek democracy like modern American democracy?
Washington D.C. is the capital.
Citizens have rights.
Women could vote.
Slaves and foreigners are excluded.
6
What continent is
GREECE
on?
Europe
Africa
Asia
North America
7
The English alphabet is similar to the Greek alphabet; many letters look the same.
What's my NAME?
What's an ALPHABET?
TRUE
FALSE
8
Greek city-states sometimes banded together and supported each other when
Sponge Bob beat the Lion King
the Persian Empire attacked from the East
the Egyptian empire fell in the West
the American defeated the British at Yorktown
9
Who held most power in the Athenian democracy?
free women
free men
foreigners
slaves
10
What do you call people who live in a certain city-state & have the rights of that place?
member
believer
citizen
president
11
Hellenistic, Hellas, and Hellene all refer to ancient....
Helen of Troy
Helen Keller
American
Greece
12
The soil in ancient Greece was more fertile than in Egypt
False
True
13
Why were the Olympics originally held?
for professional athletes to make money
for entertainment for the Greek people
to anger the gods on Mount Olympus
as competitions between city-states
14
The colonies established by the Greek city-states were
on the Greek mainland like Athens and Sparta
not part of Greece but scattered around the Mediterranean
on Greek islands like Crete and Cyprus
in North America like Canada and the United States
15
What Macedonian leader conquered Greece in the 330s BC?
Alexander the Great
Helen of Troy
Randy Baldwin
George Washington
16
The Olympics celebrated athletes from each city-state & honored the gods- where did the gods live?
Mount Boilermaker
Mount McKinley
Mount Parnassus
Mount Olympus
17
Which U.S. document guarantees the rights of democracy to citizens?
Declaration of Independence
The Dollar Tree Manefesto
Constitution
B40 Middle School Handbook
18
City states developed much the same becasue they had a lot of contact with eachother.
True
False
19
What does an
archaelogist
do?
teaches Social Studies to 6th graders
travels on vacations to exotic places
builds and designs buildings out of stone and mud
seeks evidence about ancient cultures & peoples of the past
20
A Greeklike part of the large Greek empire, but not a city-state; outposts on the Mediterranean
state
colony
city
satellite
21
What was one characteristic of many examples of Greek statues?
multi-colored
poorly made
lifelike
not very detailed
22
The main exports of Greece included all EXCEPT....
grain such as wheat and barley
olives/olive oil
almonds and walnuts
grapes/wine
