Gr. 11 Ancient Greece Quizz
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- Europe seems to be name for her
- Europa
- Which of these seas does not border Greece: Aegean, Mediterranean, Baltic, Adriatic
- Baltic
- The peninsula that Greece occupies
- Balkan
- Which group populated Greece first, the Minoans, the Mycenaeans, the Macedonians
- Minoans
- Of the Minoans and the Mycenaeans, which lived in city-states?
- Mycenaeans
- The city of Troy is located in this present day country
- Turkey
- The wealthy German businessman who found evidence that the Trojan War was an actual event.
- Heinrich Schliemann
- The author of the Illiad and the Odessey
- Homer
- The hero of the Odyssey
- Odysseus
- Who said of the Greeks, "We live around the sea like frogs around a pond."
- Plato
- The Greeks expanded whose alphabet to form the basis of all western alphabets
- Phoenicians
- The Greek word for city
- polis
- A government ruled by an elite group of landowners
- aristocracy
- Put these philosophers in chronological order: Plato, Aristotle, Socrates
- Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
- First leader of Persia who attacked the Greeks
- Darius
- Of Athens and Sparta the city-state that emphasized the military over everything else.
- Sparta
- Which had a more mountainous terrain...Egypt, Greece, Mesopotamia
- Greece
- Form of government that is ruled by an elite group of businessmen
- oligarchy
- About 650BC bronze weapons gave way to weapons made of this stronger, cheaper material
- iron
- A massive group of well armed infantry
- phalanx
- What term refers to the southern region of Greece?
- Peloponnesia
- What became of sickly Spartan infants?
- left to die
- At what age did Spartan boys begin military training?
- seven
- Did the Spartans mix well with neighbors or were they isolated from their neighbors?
- Isolated
- Which other city-state imitated the rigorous and rigid culture of Sparta?
- none of them....are you kidding?
- Solon was known as a conqueror or a reformer, or a Persian warlord?
- reformer
- This term today refers to vicious and brutal leaders, but some of these Greek___________were actually fair...what's the term?
- tyrant
- This man set up the Council of 500 and broadened the role of the ordinary citizen in Greek government
- Cleisthenes
- Name two groups of Athenians who were denied the right to vote....
- women, slaves, children
- Is it true that Aristotle believed that women did not have the ability to reason as well as men?
- Yessiree
- Athenian education was available to boys as well as girls....true or false
- false
- Name 3 examples of Greek unity
- common language, same gods, same ancient heroes, common festivals (Olympics)
- Who was considered the most powerful of the Greek gods?
- Zeus
- How did the Greeks view non-Greeks?
- as inferior, as barbarians
- Darius was a king of which civilization?
- Persian
- Herodotus was a....historian, god, philosopher, mathematician
- historian
- Who was the runner who "invented" the marathon?
- Pheidippides
- How many miles is the marathon today?
- 26.2 miles
- When the Persians burned Athens, it was empty because the Athenians had gone where?
- to the ships they had built
- Which side won ultimately won the Persian Wars?
- the Greeks
- Which Greek city-state emerged from the Persian Wars as the most powerful?
- Athens
- Pericles was....a brutal Persian general, a minor Greek god, an Egyptian vizier, a wise Athenian leader
- a wise Athenian leader
- Name the Athenian leader who decided to pay people in government so that even poor people could participate
- Pericles
- Which Athenian turned Athens into the cultural center of Greece?
- Pericles
- Who fought who in the Peloponnesian War
- Sparta vs Athens
- With whom did Sparta ally itself in the Peloponnesian War?
- Persia
- During which war did Pericles die?
- Peloponnesian War
- Which side won the Peloponnesian War
- Sparta
- Which city-state defeated Sparta in the aftermath of the Peloponnesian War?
- Thebes
- What does the word "philosopher" mean?
- lover of wisdom
- What term means "the art of skillful speaking"
- rhetoric
- How do we know so much about Socrates when he did not write anything down?
- From Plato's writings
- For what was Socrates put on trial?
- corrupting Athenian youth
- Who was Socrates' most famous student?
- Plato
- Who was Plato's most famous student?
- Aristotle
- How were Philip and Alexander related?
- father and son
- Philip and Alexander were from a region called.....
- Macedonia
- Who was Aristotle's most famous student?
- Alexander the Great
- Alexander the Great's empire reached as far east as....
- India
- What caused Alexander's death?
- a fever
- The Hellenistic civilization was a blend of four civilizations...name them
- Greek, Egyptian, Persian, Indian
- What was the most common name for a city in Alexander the Great's empire?
- Alexandria
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St. Patrick spread Christianity in.....
STARTING HERE, THESE QUESTIONS BELONG WITH CHAPTER 8 - Ireland
- Which saint spread Christianity in England?
- St. Augustine
- none
- none
- x
- t
- x?
- x