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Ancient Greece Trivia
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1. 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 -
Battle of Marathon
The Peloponnesian League
Miltiades
symposium
2. 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 Salamis
polis
constitution
3. A Corinthian colony and one of the wealthiest Greek cities that was at war withAthens when they aided Egesta
Syracuse
Odyssey
Homer
Battle of Thermopylae
4. Greeks who sang songs to keep records
Melians
Lliad
Bards
mercenary
5. 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
The Long Walls
The Parthenon
'dark age'
Alcibiades
6. TheAthenian word for victory
Pythia
Pericles
labyrinth
Nike
7. The son of Darius that became king of Persian and lost the second Persian war
Xerxes
Leonidas
The Delian league
Battle of Salamis
8. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the journey of Odysseus after the fall of Troy
Odyssey
Hoplite
Battle of Plataea
'dark age'
9. 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.
Lliad
democracy
'dark age'
polis
10. An administrative district
Darius
Pythia
Satrapy
labyrinth
11. An area in the middle east that the Persian empire was built on
Syracuse
Odyssey
Persia
labyrinth
12. 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
aristocrats
Battle of Plataea
Triremes
13. The first great epic that Homer wrote. It was about a prince of Troy kidnapping the wife of the king of Sparta.
Lliad
Mardonius
The Delian league
Satrap
14. The Greek word for excessive pride
metics
symposium
Hubris
Darius
15. A wall of shields created by foot soldiers marching close together in a rectangular formation. Made up of farmers
Lysander
Bards
Odyssey
phalanx
16. Another name for the Delphic Oracle
The Immortals
Hoplon
Lysander
Pythia
17. A kind of shield designed by theAthenians specifically for the phalanx
citizen
Hoplon
Miltiades
democracy
18. A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
democracy
phalanx
Sir Arthur Evans
The Immortals
19. (1851 - 1941): British archeologist who unearthed the remains of the Minoan civilization (Knossos) on the island of Crete. - excavated Knossos
democracy
Battle of Mycale
The Delian league
Sir Arthur Evans
20. Public speaking
rhetoric
Sir Arthur Evans
Odyssey
Hubris
21. Ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC)
mercenary
Homer
Isthmus
Syracuse
22. 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
Syracuse
tyrant
Pericles
citizen
23. A person hired to fight for another country than their own (Persian war during dark age)
The Delian league
The Immortals
mercenary
Aspasia
24. 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
Sophists
Pheidippides
Cyrus
Pericles
25. Philosophers in ancient Greece. The name directly translates to 'those who are wise'
Persia
Cultural Pluralism
Sophists
oligarchy
26. A Corinthian colony and one of the wealthiest Greek cities that was at war withAthens when they aided Egesta
Syracuse
constitution
constitution
Hoplite
27. A monarchy in which the power is passed down from generation to generation
Darius
Hereditary Monarchy
metics
Leonidas
28. The brother-in-law of Xerxes that was left to die with the rest of the Persians during the Battle of Plataea
Battle of Salamis
metics
metics
Mardonius
29. A huge wall aroundAthens to protect it that was ordered to build by Pericles
Bards
Themistocles
The Long Walls
Hoplon
30. Form of government in which a few wealthy people have the power
Cultural Pluralism
phalanx
oligarchy
Hubris
31. A foreign woman who Pericles had a very controversial relationship with
Bards
Hereditary Monarchy
The Peloponnesian League
Aspasia
32. The king of Sparta during the Battle of Thermopylae
Melians
Hoplon
Leonidas
Satrapy
33. 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
The Delian league
Triremes
Alcibiades
Lliad
34. In Spartan society - these were those residents who were neither helots nor Spartiates. Made of merchants and artisans
Isthmus
Triremes
Alcibiades
perioikoi
35. In ancient Greece - a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it
Odyssey
Melians
tyrant
Lysander
36. 300 years where everything fell apart and was destroyed
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37. The people from the island of Melos
Lysander
Melians
Darius
labyrinth
38. 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
'dark age'
Cyrus
metics
39. People who took part in the gov gathered in agora to carry out public affairs - pass laws - and govern officials
Peloponnesus
Battle of Marathon
Lysander
citizen
40. An area in the middle east that the Persian empire was built on
oligarchy
Persia
Lysander
Melos
41. 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
Battle of Plataea
Homer
Hereditary Monarchy
The Peloponnesian League
42. 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
polis
aristocrats
Lysander
symposium
43. Nobles who gained power of Greece in the 700s and provided cavalry for the king's military adventures
Pythia
Triremes
perioikoi
aristocrats
44. The southern peninsula of Greece. Location of Sparta
citizen
phalanx
Aspasia
Peloponnesus
45. 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)
Hoplon
Sir Arthur Evans
Battle of Mycale
Battle of Salamis
46. The southern peninsula of Greece. Location of Sparta
Syracuse
Peloponnesus
rhetoric
aristocrats
47. The brother-in-law of Xerxes that was left to die with the rest of the Persians during the Battle of Plataea
constitution
The Delian league
Hubris
Mardonius
48. A wall of shields created by foot soldiers marching close together in a rectangular formation. Made up of farmers
Hoplon
Battle of Marathon
Themistocles
phalanx
49. The king of the Persian empire from 522 to 480 BCE who spit the area into 20 administrative areas
Syracuse
Xerxes
Darius
Leonidas
50. When there are many cultures within an empire or kingdom
Aspasia
draconian
Triremes
Cultural Pluralism
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