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Ancient Greece Trivia
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1. A Greek leader that helped the Greeks greatly by deceiving the Persians during the Battle of Salamis
mercenary
The Parthenon
Alcibiades
Themistocles
2. The elite 10 -000 Persian soldiers that were sent to fight the Spartans in the Battle of Thermopylae
Battle of Marathon
Battle of Salamis
Regent
The Immortals
3. 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
symposium
constitution
Alcibiades
Persia
4. The people from the island of Melos
polis
Battle of Thermopylae
Leonidas
Melians
5. An area in the middle east that the Persian empire was built on
Syracuse
Persia
labyrinth
The Long Walls
6. The brother-in-law of Xerxes that was left to die with the rest of the Persians during the Battle of Plataea
Mardonius
draconian
Persia
Cultural Pluralism
7. The king of Sparta during the Battle of Thermopylae
Cultural Pluralism
Pericles
Leonidas
Melos
8. An island east of Sparta that tried to remain neutral but was attacked byAthens and defeated
Hereditary Monarchy
Lliad
constitution
Melos
9. Nobles who gained power of Greece in the 700s and provided cavalry for the king's military adventures
perioikoi
democracy
aristocrats
Lliad
10. The king of Persia that built up a huge empire and ruled it from 559 BCE to 530 BCE
Themistocles
perioikoi
Battle of Plataea
Cyrus
11. Athenian soldiers that were named after their shields
The Long Walls
Bards
Odyssey
Hoplite
12. Public speaking
constitution
Cultural Pluralism
Regent
rhetoric
13. A foreign woman who Pericles had a very controversial relationship with
Hoplon
Miltiades
Darius
Aspasia
14. 300 years where everything fell apart and was destroyed
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15. Plan of gov- in 507 b.c. made freeAthenian born men citizens
tyrant
Cultural Pluralism
Xerxes
constitution
16. A Greek leader that helped the Greeks greatly by deceiving the Persians during the Battle of Salamis
Miltiades
Mardonius
'dark age'
Themistocles
17. Plan of gov- in 507 b.c. made freeAthenian born men citizens
Cyrus
constitution
Sophists
polis
18. Another name for the Delphic Oracle
draconian
Miltiades
Battle of Thermopylae
Pythia
19. Public speaking
rhetoric
Aspasia
Leonidas
Hubris
20. A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
Sir Arthur Evans
Mardonius
democracy
labyrinth
21. 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
Satrap
Lysander
phalanx
Themistocles
22. The southern peninsula of Greece. Location of Sparta
constitution
Peloponnesus
The Parthenon
polis
23. When there are many cultures within an empire or kingdom
tyrant
Cultural Pluralism
Melians
draconian
24. A monarchy in which the power is passed down from generation to generation
Nike
Hereditary Monarchy
Lliad
The Delian league
25. People who took part in the gov gathered in agora to carry out public affairs - pass laws - and govern officials
Hoplon
Pericles
Alcibiades
citizen
26. The people from the island of Melos
Battle of Salamis
Melians
Pericles
Persia
27. Nobles who gained power of Greece in the 700s and provided cavalry for the king's military adventures
aristocrats
Battle of Marathon
perioikoi
Satrapy
28. A substitute ruler
The Peloponnesian League
Regent
perioikoi
polis
29. A battle between the Persian and the Spartans in which the Persian attempted to avenge Darius' defeat during the Battle of Marathon - and - due to a Greek traitor - the war ended up being 300 Spartans against 10 -000 Persians (the immortals) - so the
Homer
The Delian league
Battle of Thermopylae
symposium
30. People who took part in the gov gathered in agora to carry out public affairs - pass laws - and govern officials
Melos
Regent
Sir Arthur Evans
citizen
31. TheAthenian word for victory
Homer
Battle of Salamis
Nike
Alcibiades
32. The first great epic that Homer wrote. It was about a prince of Troy kidnapping the wife of the king of Sparta.
oligarchy
Triremes
Melians
Lliad
33. In ancient Greece - a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it
Peloponnesus
tyrant
Aspasia
The Peloponnesian League
34. An administrative district
Regent
labyrinth
Satrapy
Bards
35. A land bridge
Isthmus
tyrant
Nike
mercenary
36. A person hired to fight for another country than their own (Persian war during dark age)
Satrap
Battle of Marathon
mercenary
Persia
37. A politician inAthens that was dominant during the Periclean age who grew the Delian league into something close to an empire - approved a final peace with Persia and oversaw the building of the Parthenon
Satrap
Mardonius
Pericles
Cyrus
38. Form of government in which a few wealthy people have the power
Satrap
Darius
oligarchy
Leonidas
39. The king of Sparta during the Battle of Thermopylae
Leonidas
The Long Walls
metics
Themistocles
40. The king of Persia that built up a huge empire and ruled it from 559 BCE to 530 BCE
Cyrus
phalanx
tyrant
Satrapy
41. Long - thin -Athenian ships that were more maneuverable than other ships and greatly helped the Greeks in the Battle of Salamis
tyrant
Triremes
labyrinth
Aspasia
42. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the journey of Odysseus after the fall of Troy
Odyssey
Pythia
Sir Arthur Evans
tyrant
43. 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.
Hoplon
metics
Battle of Marathon
The Parthenon
44. In ancient Greece - a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it
phalanx
tyrant
Battle of Plataea
Miltiades
45. The governor of an administrative district
Sophists
Satrap
Nike
Pheidippides
46. A kind of shield designed by theAthenians specifically for the phalanx
'dark age'
Alcibiades
The Delian league
Hoplon
47. The southern peninsula of Greece. Location of Sparta
Pheidippides
Peloponnesus
Mardonius
symposium
48. Athenian soldiers that were named after their shields
Hoplite
Triremes
The Long Walls
Isthmus
49. The first great epic that Homer wrote. It was about a prince of Troy kidnapping the wife of the king of Sparta.
The Parthenon
Battle of Salamis
Lliad
Hubris
50. A Corinthian colony and one of the wealthiest Greek cities that was at war withAthens when they aided Egesta
Satrap
Syracuse
Persia
Themistocles