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Ancient Greece Trivia
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1. Plan of gov- in 507 b.c. made freeAthenian born men citizens
metics
Homer
constitution
Mardonius
2. The king of Sparta during the Battle of Thermopylae
Leonidas
Miltiades
The Immortals
tyrant
3. A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
democracy
Pythia
Bards
Syracuse
4. In ancient Greece - a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it
Hubris
tyrant
The Delian league
draconian
5. 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)
labyrinth
draconian
Battle of Salamis
Battle of Thermopylae
6. A substitute ruler
Satrap
Regent
The Immortals
Nike
7. Greeks who sang songs to keep records
Pythia
The Long Walls
Bards
Lliad
8. 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
Melos
Battle of Marathon
Battle of Plataea
Persia
9. 300 years where everything fell apart and was destroyed
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10. The son of Darius that became king of Persian and lost the second Persian war
Xerxes
Hoplite
citizen
Aspasia
11. The southern peninsula of Greece. Location of Sparta
Odyssey
Peloponnesus
polis
polis
12. The brother-in-law of Xerxes that was left to die with the rest of the Persians during the Battle of Plataea
Odyssey
Mardonius
Pythia
constitution
13. In Spartan society - these were those residents who were neither helots nor Spartiates. Made of merchants and artisans
Battle of Salamis
perioikoi
Pythia
democracy
14. The governor of an administrative district
perioikoi
tyrant
Satrap
Nike
15. Nobles who gained power of Greece in the 700s and provided cavalry for the king's military adventures
aristocrats
The Peloponnesian League
Persia
Triremes
16. Philosophers in ancient Greece. The name directly translates to 'those who are wise'
Sophists
Peloponnesus
Cyrus
Aspasia
17. 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
Lysander
Sir Arthur Evans
The Peloponnesian League
Xerxes
18. When there are many cultures within an empire or kingdom
Cultural Pluralism
The Immortals
mercenary
Aspasia
19. Greeks who sang songs to keep records
constitution
Battle of Thermopylae
Melians
Bards
20. A monarchy in which the power is passed down from generation to generation
Hereditary Monarchy
Lysander
Odyssey
Homer
21. The first great epic that Homer wrote. It was about a prince of Troy kidnapping the wife of the king of Sparta.
Pheidippides
Cyrus
Hubris
Lliad
22. The Greek word for excessive pride
Hubris
Alcibiades
democracy
Battle of Mycale
23. A huge wall aroundAthens to protect it that was ordered to build by Pericles
Battle of Plataea
The Long Walls
Miltiades
draconian
24. The commander of theAthenians during the Ionian revolt that lead to war
oligarchy
The Delian league
Miltiades
Homer
25. A Corinthian colony and one of the wealthiest Greek cities that was at war withAthens when they aided Egesta
Syracuse
The Delian league
Mardonius
Lliad
26. 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
labyrinth
Themistocles
Pericles
Satrapy
27. Plan of gov- in 507 b.c. made freeAthenian born men citizens
Isthmus
Melos
constitution
oligarchy
28. An administrative district
rhetoric
Pheidippides
Satrapy
The Parthenon
29. Public speaking
rhetoric
Persia
Leonidas
Miltiades
30. A foreign woman who Pericles had a very controversial relationship with
Lliad
constitution
Homer
Aspasia
31. 300 years where everything fell apart and was destroyed
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32. A person hired to fight for another country than their own (Persian war during dark age)
Lysander
mercenary
citizen
The Parthenon
33. Of or relating to Draco or his harsh code of laws
draconian
The Parthenon
Miltiades
Cultural Pluralism
34. 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
Hereditary Monarchy
The Long Walls
Battle of Plataea
35. 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
Odyssey
Lysander
Themistocles
Pheidippides
36. 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 Peloponnesian League
Lliad
Hoplon
The Delian league
37. 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.
metics
Homer
Battle of Marathon
Isthmus
38. The Greek word for excessive pride
Hubris
Xerxes
metics
Battle of Thermopylae
39. The king of Persia that built up a huge empire and ruled it from 559 BCE to 530 BCE
symposium
Darius
Battle of Thermopylae
Cyrus
40. 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 -
Pericles
constitution
symposium
Mardonius
41. The son of Darius that became king of Persian and lost the second Persian war
Persia
Hubris
Xerxes
mercenary
42. 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
symposium
Pericles
Battle of Thermopylae
Satrapy
43. Public speaking
rhetoric
The Immortals
The Immortals
Sophists
44. The anti-Delian league that was a league of city-states in the Peloponnesus that fought against the Delian league (Athens).
Battle of Mycale
The Peloponnesian League
Battle of Marathon
Cultural Pluralism
45. 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
perioikoi
Battle of Thermopylae
Mardonius
Themistocles
46. 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
Melians
Hoplite
aristocrats
Alcibiades
47. The southern peninsula of Greece. Location of Sparta
Themistocles
Peloponnesus
Homer
Hereditary Monarchy
48. Philosophers in ancient Greece. The name directly translates to 'those who are wise'
Odyssey
mercenary
Sophists
Melos
49. A maze
labyrinth
Melians
Pheidippides
Themistocles
50. Another name for the Delphic Oracle
Xerxes
Persia
Pythia
metics