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Ancient Greece Trivia
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1. In Spartan society - these were those residents who were neither helots nor Spartiates. Made of merchants and artisans
Bards
Hubris
Regent
perioikoi
2. The son of Darius that became king of Persian and lost the second Persian war
Satrapy
Xerxes
Sir Arthur Evans
aristocrats
3. The king of Persia that built up a huge empire and ruled it from 559 BCE to 530 BCE
Cyrus
Sophists
'dark age'
constitution
4. A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
democracy
aristocrats
Lysander
Melians
5. An administrative district
Battle of Salamis
Satrap
Bards
Satrapy
6. 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
Leonidas
Alcibiades
Xerxes
Persia
7. Public speaking
Pythia
rhetoric
Battle of Marathon
Aspasia
8. People who took part in the gov gathered in agora to carry out public affairs - pass laws - and govern officials
citizen
The Immortals
Battle of Salamis
Cyrus
9. A wall of shields created by foot soldiers marching close together in a rectangular formation. Made up of farmers
The Parthenon
Aspasia
phalanx
Melians
10. An island east of Sparta that tried to remain neutral but was attacked byAthens and defeated
Melos
symposium
Nike
The Parthenon
11. A maze
citizen
Peloponnesus
The Delian league
labyrinth
12. A substitute ruler
mercenary
Pericles
The Long Walls
Regent
13. A monarchy in which the power is passed down from generation to generation
Mardonius
The Delian league
labyrinth
Hereditary Monarchy
14. The first great epic that Homer wrote. It was about a prince of Troy kidnapping the wife of the king of Sparta.
Lliad
Sophists
polis
Melos
15. An area in the middle east that the Persian empire was built on
constitution
The Parthenon
Persia
Battle of Plataea
16. (1851 - 1941): British archeologist who unearthed the remains of the Minoan civilization (Knossos) on the island of Crete. - excavated Knossos
Triremes
Nike
Battle of Mycale
Sir Arthur Evans
17. 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
Alcibiades
Battle of Mycale
Leonidas
Xerxes
18. The first great epic that Homer wrote. It was about a prince of Troy kidnapping the wife of the king of Sparta.
Aspasia
The Parthenon
Darius
Lliad
19. A foreign woman who Pericles had a very controversial relationship with
metics
tyrant
Homer
Aspasia
20. A foreign woman who Pericles had a very controversial relationship with
Aspasia
Syracuse
The Delian league
Isthmus
21. The king of Persia that built up a huge empire and ruled it from 559 BCE to 530 BCE
polis
Cyrus
constitution
The Delian league
22. A huge wall aroundAthens to protect it that was ordered to build by Pericles
The Long Walls
democracy
citizen
draconian
23. 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)
Satrap
Battle of Plataea
Battle of Salamis
Xerxes
24. The brother-in-law of Xerxes that was left to die with the rest of the Persians during the Battle of Plataea
Alcibiades
Aspasia
Mardonius
Hereditary Monarchy
25. The governor of an administrative district
Battle of Salamis
The Delian league
Darius
Satrap
26. Athenian soldiers that were named after their shields
Bards
Hoplite
Syracuse
tyrant
27. 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 -
symposium
tyrant
Persia
Miltiades
28. Nobles who gained power of Greece in the 700s and provided cavalry for the king's military adventures
Melos
Lliad
Melos
aristocrats
29. The Greek word for excessive pride
Hubris
Triremes
perioikoi
The Parthenon
30. Public speaking
rhetoric
Cultural Pluralism
oligarchy
metics
31. A huge temple forAthena that was very expensive and time consuming for theAthenians. The building of the temple was overseen by Pericles.
Battle of Marathon
The Parthenon
Aspasia
Peloponnesus
32. An island east of Sparta that tried to remain neutral but was attacked byAthens and defeated
Leonidas
Melos
Lysander
Themistocles
33. The Greek word for excessive pride
Isthmus
Mardonius
The Peloponnesian League
Hubris
34. Another name for the Delphic Oracle
metics
Syracuse
Homer
Pythia
35. Athenian soldiers that were named after their shields
Hoplite
Darius
Mardonius
Syracuse
36. 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
Triremes
Battle of Thermopylae
Lliad
Pericles
37. 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
The Delian league
Persia
Pheidippides
Hubris
38. 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.
Battle of Mycale
Syracuse
tyrant
'dark age'
39. Long - thin -Athenian ships that were more maneuverable than other ships and greatly helped the Greeks in the Battle of Salamis
mercenary
Battle of Plataea
Pericles
Triremes
40. 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.
Syracuse
metics
labyrinth
Nike
41. Philosophers in ancient Greece. The name directly translates to 'those who are wise'
Sophists
Melians
Regent
The Delian league
42. An area in the middle east that the Persian empire was built on
perioikoi
Mardonius
metics
Persia
43. Nobles who gained power of Greece in the 700s and provided cavalry for the king's military adventures
Hubris
Pythia
Battle of Mycale
aristocrats
44. A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
democracy
aristocrats
Hubris
Xerxes
45. 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.
metics
polis
Hubris
Battle of Mycale
46. The people from the island of Melos
Melians
Cyrus
Peloponnesus
draconian
47. 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.
tyrant
Lysander
The Peloponnesian League
The Delian league
48. A person hired to fight for another country than their own (Persian war during dark age)
phalanx
mercenary
aristocrats
Battle of Marathon
49. TheAthenian word for victory
Persia
Battle of Thermopylae
Themistocles
Nike
50. The governor of an administrative district
Odyssey
Syracuse
Satrap
rhetoric
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