Gr. 7 Ancient Greece Quizz
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- The term for a long narrative poem
- epic
- Where Greek gods were thought to live
- Mount Olympus
- A prominent Greek historian
- Herodotus
- These were the opponents in the Battle of Salamis
- Persians vs. Greeks
- Define despot...
- a person who rules with absolute and unlimited power
- Of Sparta and Athens, the one that held the military in high regard....
- Sparta
- The area where Alexander was from....
- Macedonia
- Who was the son of Philip II?
- Alexander
- The poet who wrote about the winners at the Olympics....
- Pindar
- Who wrote the history of the Peloponnesian War?
- Thucydides
- The opponents in the Peloponnesian War....
- Sparta vs. Athens
- The peninsula where the Peloponnesian War was fought...
- Balkan
- Calliope and Clio are these...
- muses
- This term means the love of wisdom...
- philosophy
- The writings of this man tell us about the life of Socrates....
- Plato
- This is the name of the temple built in honor of Athena...
- The Parthenon
- Alexander proved his power to the Greeks by capturing this city-state...
- Thebes
- This is where Greeks plays were performed...
- amphitheaters
- Troy is located in what is now this country....
- Turkey
- Some believe that the Trojan War was fought over this woman.....
- Helen
- This god was seen as the rulers of all the other gods and goddesses....
- Zeus
- These 2 gods were brothers of Zeus...
- Poseidon and Hades
- This man tried to prove the authenticity of the Trojan War...
- Heinrich Schliemann
- This was the hero in the Odyssey....
- Odysseus
- Greece is bordered by these 3 seas....
- Mediterranean, Adriatic, Aegean
- Between the Greeks and the Trojans, who won the Trojan War, and how long did the war last?
- Greeks won; ten years
- Provide details about who Homer was....
- a possible essay question
- What are the details of the Battle of Salamis?
- This could be an essay question
- The details of the life of Socrates....
- ...a possible essay question
- Describing Greek democracy....
- ....might be an essay question
- Greeks believed these delivered messages from the gods...
- oracles
- Xerxes was...Greek, Persian, Egyptian...(choose one)
- Persian
- The Battle of Salamis took place in : a mountain pass, an isthmus, a valley, a bay
- a bay
- The Hellenspont connected these two seas....
- Aegean Sea and Sea of Marmara
- The capital of Greece today....
- Athens
- Who wrote of flying snakes and dog-headed men?
- Herodotus
- Who commanded his people to beat the water with whips because the water did not behave as he wanted?
- Xerxes
- This is a government that rules by a small group of people...
- oligarchy
- How long did a Spartan soldier have to live with other soldiers after he married his wife?
- ten years
- Why didn't Sparta trade with other city-states?
- Fear that Spartans would become interested in other places
- Spartans used this term for their slaves....
- helots
- This man led Athens for 30 years....
- Pericles
- Who could be considered a citizen of Athens?
- males born to residents of Athens
- This was the league formed by Greek city-states for defensive purposes...
- Delian League
- Which side did the Persians support in the Peloponnesian War?
- Sparta
- Between Thucydides and Herodotus, which did not mix in fiction with his historical writing?
- Thucydides
- Name the horse that Alexander made famous....
- Bucephalus
- When Alexander destroyed Thebes, whose home did he spare?
- Pindar the poet.
- Alexander became great even though he died at the age of 32, 42, 47, 52
- 32
- Besides athletics, what else happened in the Greek gymnasiums?
- Reading/discussions
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Put these philosophers in chronological order:
Plato, Socrates, Aristotle - Socrates, Plato, Aristotle
- What caused Socractes' death?
- executed by drinking poison (hemlock)
- Considered the greatest Greek scuptor...
- Phidias
- What nearby city has examples of Greek columns?
- Washington DC