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Ancient Greece Trivia
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1. An area in the middle east that the Persian empire was built on
Persia
Bards
Satrapy
mercenary
2. People who took part in the gov gathered in agora to carry out public affairs - pass laws - and govern officials
mercenary
citizen
Syracuse
Cyrus
3. 300 years where everything fell apart and was destroyed
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4. The elite 10 -000 Persian soldiers that were sent to fight the Spartans in the Battle of Thermopylae
The Immortals
oligarchy
Leonidas
Darius
5. Public speaking
Persia
rhetoric
Miltiades
Miltiades
6. Philosophers in ancient Greece. The name directly translates to 'those who are wise'
Battle of Plataea
Xerxes
Sophists
The Immortals
7. 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.
Odyssey
Persia
metics
Themistocles
8. The southern peninsula of Greece. Location of Sparta
Peloponnesus
The Delian league
Satrap
Themistocles
9. An administrative district
constitution
Satrapy
Odyssey
mercenary
10. 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.
Syracuse
Satrap
oligarchy
Battle of Mycale
11. A monarchy in which the power is passed down from generation to generation
Pericles
democracy
Syracuse
Hereditary Monarchy
12. The king of the Persian empire from 522 to 480 BCE who spit the area into 20 administrative areas
constitution
The Peloponnesian League
Darius
Homer
13. 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.
Hereditary Monarchy
Bards
Battle of Mycale
metics
14. A wall of shields created by foot soldiers marching close together in a rectangular formation. Made up of farmers
Pheidippides
Themistocles
Sophists
phalanx
15. 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
Regent
Pericles
perioikoi
Battle of Salamis
16. Form of government in which a few wealthy people have the power
draconian
Lysander
oligarchy
democracy
17. 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.
labyrinth
Darius
polis
Themistocles
18. The Greek word for excessive pride
Hubris
Melians
Syracuse
Peloponnesus
19. 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.
Pythia
Pheidippides
symposium
polis
20. 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
Hoplite
Sir Arthur Evans
phalanx
21. The son of Darius that became king of Persian and lost the second Persian war
Themistocles
Battle of Mycale
Xerxes
Alcibiades
22. The governor of an administrative district
Pericles
Satrap
Battle of Thermopylae
Bards
23. The anti-Delian league that was a league of city-states in the Peloponnesus that fought against the Delian league (Athens).
Battle of Thermopylae
Regent
The Peloponnesian League
draconian
24. A land bridge
Odyssey
Melos
Satrap
Isthmus
25. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the journey of Odysseus after the fall of Troy
draconian
Battle of Marathon
Odyssey
Syracuse
26. A Corinthian colony and one of the wealthiest Greek cities that was at war withAthens when they aided Egesta
constitution
Syracuse
Mardonius
Lysander
27. Form of government in which a few wealthy people have the power
The Delian league
Syracuse
Homer
oligarchy
28. In Spartan society - these were those residents who were neither helots nor Spartiates. Made of merchants and artisans
Hoplite
citizen
perioikoi
Pythia
29. A person hired to fight for another country than their own (Persian war during dark age)
mercenary
Alcibiades
Cyrus
Leonidas
30. The king of Persia that built up a huge empire and ruled it from 559 BCE to 530 BCE
Cyrus
Leonidas
The Immortals
Syracuse
31. A substitute ruler
Darius
labyrinth
The Parthenon
Regent
32. The anti-Delian league that was a league of city-states in the Peloponnesus that fought against the Delian league (Athens).
Triremes
Triremes
Xerxes
The Peloponnesian League
33. A wall of shields created by foot soldiers marching close together in a rectangular formation. Made up of farmers
democracy
symposium
Darius
phalanx
34. The king of Sparta during the Battle of Thermopylae
Leonidas
polis
constitution
Hubris
35. (1851 - 1941): British archeologist who unearthed the remains of the Minoan civilization (Knossos) on the island of Crete. - excavated Knossos
The Peloponnesian League
Battle of Mycale
Sir Arthur Evans
The Parthenon
36. The people from the island of Melos
Odyssey
Hereditary Monarchy
Lysander
Melians
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 Parthenon
Pheidippides
Lysander
Battle of Thermopylae
38. A Greek leader that helped the Greeks greatly by deceiving the Persians during the Battle of Salamis
Battle of Thermopylae
Homer
Themistocles
Hoplon
39. A land bridge
labyrinth
Mardonius
Isthmus
Hoplon
40. The Greek word for excessive pride
labyrinth
Hubris
Mardonius
Regent
41. A kind of shield designed by theAthenians specifically for the phalanx
Melians
aristocrats
Hoplon
Sophists
42. A Corinthian colony and one of the wealthiest Greek cities that was at war withAthens when they aided Egesta
mercenary
Battle of Marathon
oligarchy
Syracuse
43. The first great epic that Homer wrote. It was about a prince of Troy kidnapping the wife of the king of Sparta.
Peloponnesus
Hereditary Monarchy
Battle of Salamis
Lliad
44. A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
polis
democracy
Miltiades
The Parthenon
45. The brother-in-law of Xerxes that was left to die with the rest of the Persians during the Battle of Plataea
Mardonius
Nike
Odyssey
Hubris
46. When there are many cultures within an empire or kingdom
Cultural Pluralism
Hoplite
perioikoi
Mardonius
47. An island east of Sparta that tried to remain neutral but was attacked byAthens and defeated
Melos
Battle of Plataea
Melians
The Peloponnesian League
48. A foreign woman who Pericles had a very controversial relationship with
Leonidas
Battle of Plataea
Lysander
Aspasia
49. 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
Satrapy
Lysander
Persia
Lliad
50. Greeks who sang songs to keep records
Bards
Battle of Mycale
'dark age'
Alcibiades