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Ancient Greece Trivia
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1. Of or relating to Draco or his harsh code of laws
draconian
Satrapy
Pheidippides
The Parthenon
2. An administrative district
Lliad
Satrapy
metics
Themistocles
3. Ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC)
Battle of Marathon
Leonidas
labyrinth
Homer
4. 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
mercenary
Battle of Plataea
Darius
Pheidippides
5. 300 years where everything fell apart and was destroyed
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6. 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
draconian
Pericles
Xerxes
Homer
7. Nobles who gained power of Greece in the 700s and provided cavalry for the king's military adventures
Leonidas
Satrap
Hoplite
aristocrats
8. The first great epic that Homer wrote. It was about a prince of Troy kidnapping the wife of the king of Sparta.
Melians
Battle of Mycale
Lliad
The Long Walls
9. Nobles who gained power of Greece in the 700s and provided cavalry for the king's military adventures
tyrant
Battle of Mycale
aristocrats
oligarchy
10. 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.
constitution
Hoplite
polis
Satrap
11. A kind of shield designed by theAthenians specifically for the phalanx
The Parthenon
Hoplon
phalanx
symposium
12. Philosophers in ancient Greece. The name directly translates to 'those who are wise'
aristocrats
oligarchy
Sophists
Themistocles
13. (1851 - 1941): British archeologist who unearthed the remains of the Minoan civilization (Knossos) on the island of Crete. - excavated Knossos
Persia
Sir Arthur Evans
Melos
The Delian league
14. 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.
The Delian league
metics
Sir Arthur Evans
aristocrats
15. An area in the middle east that the Persian empire was built on
Lysander
Persia
democracy
Sophists
16. The son of Darius that became king of Persian and lost the second Persian war
Lliad
Melians
Xerxes
Battle of Marathon
17. A maze
Pericles
Isthmus
labyrinth
Themistocles
18. 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
democracy
Alcibiades
aristocrats
The Parthenon
19. An island east of Sparta that tried to remain neutral but was attacked byAthens and defeated
The Long Walls
Melos
Satrap
Melians
20. Public speaking
Cultural Pluralism
metics
'dark age'
rhetoric
21. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the journey of Odysseus after the fall of Troy
Odyssey
Hoplite
phalanx
aristocrats
22. Athenian soldiers that were named after their shields
Mardonius
Hoplite
Pericles
Miltiades
23. In ancient Greece - a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it
tyrant
Hoplite
rhetoric
Syracuse
24. The southern peninsula of Greece. Location of Sparta
Peloponnesus
Leonidas
Regent
symposium
25. 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
Battle of Thermopylae
oligarchy
The Peloponnesian League
perioikoi
26. In ancient Greece - a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it
tyrant
labyrinth
polis
Battle of Salamis
27. The elite 10 -000 Persian soldiers that were sent to fight the Spartans in the Battle of Thermopylae
The Immortals
Pythia
constitution
tyrant
28. The king of Persia that built up a huge empire and ruled it from 559 BCE to 530 BCE
Pythia
Isthmus
Odyssey
Cyrus
29. The brother-in-law of Xerxes that was left to die with the rest of the Persians during the Battle of Plataea
Pheidippides
Miltiades
Mardonius
Xerxes
30. The Greek word for excessive pride
oligarchy
aristocrats
Hubris
perioikoi
31. 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
The Delian league
Triremes
draconian
Lysander
32. The southern peninsula of Greece. Location of Sparta
Hoplon
Lliad
'dark age'
Peloponnesus
33. An area in the middle east that the Persian empire was built on
Persia
Mardonius
symposium
Melians
34. The king of the Persian empire from 522 to 480 BCE who spit the area into 20 administrative areas
Cultural Pluralism
Sophists
Darius
draconian
35. 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
Satrap
Hoplon
Nike
Alcibiades
36. A huge wall aroundAthens to protect it that was ordered to build by Pericles
Sir Arthur Evans
The Parthenon
The Long Walls
Pericles
37. 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.
Pheidippides
oligarchy
The Delian league
Lliad
38. 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
Aspasia
The Delian league
Battle of Plataea
Pheidippides
39. The first great epic that Homer wrote. It was about a prince of Troy kidnapping the wife of the king of Sparta.
Mardonius
Battle of Plataea
oligarchy
Lliad
40. A maze
Miltiades
The Parthenon
Syracuse
labyrinth
41. Of or relating to Draco or his harsh code of laws
Hubris
draconian
Bards
Themistocles
42. A wall of shields created by foot soldiers marching close together in a rectangular formation. Made up of farmers
Battle of Salamis
metics
phalanx
Cyrus
43. 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)
Battle of Salamis
Hubris
'dark age'
Pythia
44. A foreign woman who Pericles had a very controversial relationship with
Odyssey
The Parthenon
Aspasia
Battle of Salamis
45. A wall of shields created by foot soldiers marching close together in a rectangular formation. Made up of farmers
phalanx
Battle of Plataea
The Long Walls
Bards
46. An administrative district
Odyssey
Syracuse
Sir Arthur Evans
Satrapy
47. 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
Miltiades
Battle of Marathon
Bards
48. A substitute ruler
rhetoric
Miltiades
Lliad
Regent
49. The anti-Delian league that was a league of city-states in the Peloponnesus that fought against the Delian league (Athens).
Melos
Nike
Odyssey
The Peloponnesian League
50. A Greek leader that helped the Greeks greatly by deceiving the Persians during the Battle of Salamis
Hoplon
Peloponnesus
Themistocles
Xerxes