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Ancient Greece Trivia
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1. People living inAthens who were notAthenian citizens - who could work and who paid taxes but were not allowed to own land or take part in government.
Melos
Xerxes
metics
Triremes
2. Philosophers in ancient Greece. The name directly translates to 'those who are wise'
symposium
phalanx
Sophists
Melos
3. The governor of an administrative district
Regent
Battle of Thermopylae
Satrap
Miltiades
4. Of or relating to Draco or his harsh code of laws
draconian
mercenary
The Peloponnesian League
Hubris
5. Ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC)
rhetoric
Mardonius
Homer
Cyrus
6. The king of the Persian empire from 522 to 480 BCE who spit the area into 20 administrative areas
Darius
Pythia
Syracuse
citizen
7. A huge wall aroundAthens to protect it that was ordered to build by Pericles
Darius
The Long Walls
The Peloponnesian League
Miltiades
8. An island east of Sparta that tried to remain neutral but was attacked byAthens and defeated
Lliad
Battle of Marathon
Peloponnesus
Melos
9. The anti-Delian league that was a league of city-states in the Peloponnesus that fought against the Delian league (Athens).
mercenary
The Long Walls
The Peloponnesian League
Battle of Salamis
10. A battle between the Greeks and the Persians in which the remaining Persian troops (lead by Mardonius) attempted to defeat the Greek troops - and because they were so small - the Greeks easily triumphed
Isthmus
Alcibiades
Alcibiades
Battle of Plataea
11. A maze
The Parthenon
perioikoi
Triremes
labyrinth
12. A Greek man that was so desperate for glory that he started a war against Sparta that theAthenians were bound to lose - and when he got called back toAthens for vandalism - he went to the Spartans to aid them
Cultural Pluralism
The Long Walls
Alcibiades
metics
13. The commander of theAthenians during the Ionian revolt that lead to war
Miltiades
The Immortals
Cultural Pluralism
Hubris
14. A battle between the Persians and theAthenians and Ionians in which the Persians wanted control of Ionia - and the Ionians andAthenians met at Marathon and fought until theAthenians won
Battle of Marathon
labyrinth
Nike
Syracuse
15. A league started by theAthenians that had the objective of keeping the Persians away from Greece and freeing cities from Persia. It made theAthenians very powerful.
The Delian league
Aspasia
Cultural Pluralism
Melians
16. A land bridge
Isthmus
draconian
Miltiades
Melos
17. A Greek leader that helped the Greeks greatly by deceiving the Persians during the Battle of Salamis
Themistocles
Hereditary Monarchy
Satrapy
Battle of Mycale
18. A person hired to fight for another country than their own (Persian war during dark age)
Alcibiades
Mardonius
mercenary
metics
19. The southern peninsula of Greece. Location of Sparta
Peloponnesus
Satrap
Triremes
Leonidas
20. The first great epic that Homer wrote. It was about a prince of Troy kidnapping the wife of the king of Sparta.
Lliad
Nike
Mardonius
constitution
21. The king of Sparta during the Battle of Thermopylae
citizen
Cyrus
Leonidas
Pericles
22. The Spartan that was in power ofAthens after the loss of the first Peloponnesian war who theAthenians eventually rebelled against to get their independence back
Hereditary Monarchy
Isthmus
phalanx
Lysander
23. Nobles who gained power of Greece in the 700s and provided cavalry for the king's military adventures
Syracuse
Xerxes
metics
aristocrats
24. A Corinthian colony and one of the wealthiest Greek cities that was at war withAthens when they aided Egesta
Syracuse
Leonidas
The Long Walls
Peloponnesus
25. TheAthenian word for victory
Nike
rhetoric
Pythia
citizen
26. A battle between the Persians and theAthenians and Ionians in which the Persians wanted control of Ionia - and the Ionians andAthenians met at Marathon and fought until theAthenians won
Battle of Marathon
symposium
Triremes
tyrant
27. A substitute ruler
Miltiades
Regent
Mardonius
polis
28. 300 years where everything fell apart and was destroyed
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29. A huge temple forAthena that was very expensive and time consuming for theAthenians. The building of the temple was overseen by Pericles.
The Parthenon
Melians
Battle of Mycale
constitution
30. A kind of shield designed by theAthenians specifically for the phalanx
Battle of Thermopylae
Hoplon
labyrinth
Battle of Plataea
31. A self-governing city-state; the basic political unit of the Greek world. comprised a city - with its acropolis and agora and the surrounding territory.
polis
phalanx
Homer
Pericles
32. A substitute ruler
Battle of Mycale
Triremes
Pericles
Regent
33. Athenian soldiers that were named after their shields
Bards
Pheidippides
Hoplite
Lliad
34. A battle between the Persians and theAthenians that was caused by the Persians burningAthens and took place in the sea. TheAthenians won because of there more maneuverable ships (triremes)
Satrapy
Battle of Marathon
Battle of Plataea
Battle of Salamis
35. The brother-in-law of Xerxes that was left to die with the rest of the Persians during the Battle of Plataea
Pythia
Mardonius
Battle of Thermopylae
The Long Walls
36. The people from the island of Melos
The Parthenon
Melians
Homer
The Long Walls
37. Of or relating to Draco or his harsh code of laws
Cultural Pluralism
The Delian league
oligarchy
draconian
38. Public speaking
Hubris
rhetoric
Pheidippides
Melians
39. A battle between the Greeks and the Persians in which the remaining Persian troops (lead by Mardonius) attempted to defeat the Greek troops - and because they were so small - the Greeks easily triumphed
The Peloponnesian League
Battle of Plataea
The Long Walls
democracy
40. When there are many cultures within an empire or kingdom
polis
metics
phalanx
Cultural Pluralism
41. Long - thin -Athenian ships that were more maneuverable than other ships and greatly helped the Greeks in the Battle of Salamis
Satrapy
Triremes
Lysander
Battle of Plataea
42. Ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC)
Homer
Pheidippides
perioikoi
Syracuse
43. The king of Persia that built up a huge empire and ruled it from 559 BCE to 530 BCE
Darius
Melians
Cyrus
Alcibiades
44. A battle between the Persians and the Greeks in which the Persians relied on the help of the Ionians to defeat the Greeks - but the Ionians backed out at the last minute - so the Greeks won.
The Peloponnesian League
Sir Arthur Evans
Battle of Mycale
Melians
45. TheAthenian messenger that supposedly ran toAthens to announce their victory in the Battle of Marathon and also supposedly ran fromAthens to Sparta to ask the Spartans for help
Pheidippides
Odyssey
Pericles
Battle of Thermopylae
46. An area in the middle east that the Persian empire was built on
Darius
Persia
Pythia
The Long Walls
47. A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
Satrap
citizen
democracy
Darius
48. The brother-in-law of Xerxes that was left to die with the rest of the Persians during the Battle of Plataea
Lliad
aristocrats
polis
Mardonius
49. From the word for 'drinking together'; an after-dinner drinking party attended by elite males. they sang poems - posed riddles - played drinking games - and delivered philosophical speeches. Other entertainment was provided by musicians - jugglers -
Melians
aristocrats
Cultural Pluralism
symposium
50. Plan of gov- in 507 b.c. made freeAthenian born men citizens
constitution
Pythia
Mardonius
Syracuse