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Ancient Greece Trivia
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1. An island east of Sparta that tried to remain neutral but was attacked byAthens and defeated
Melos
Triremes
The Long Walls
Hubris
2. TheAthenian word for victory
Lliad
perioikoi
Nike
Battle of Marathon
3. A maze
labyrinth
Miltiades
perioikoi
constitution
4. A monarchy in which the power is passed down from generation to generation
The Long Walls
Hereditary Monarchy
citizen
Darius
5. 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
Melians
Battle of Thermopylae
Pythia
Lliad
6. Ancient Greek epic poet who is believed to have written the Iliad and the Odyssey (circa 850 BC)
Hoplon
Themistocles
The Peloponnesian League
Homer
7. The king of Sparta during the Battle of Thermopylae
Battle of Mycale
Leonidas
Hoplite
rhetoric
8. Plan of gov- in 507 b.c. made freeAthenian born men citizens
constitution
labyrinth
Leonidas
metics
9. 300 years where everything fell apart and was destroyed
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10. A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
democracy
mercenary
Sir Arthur Evans
draconian
11. 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
Cyrus
Battle of Salamis
Pericles
'dark age'
12. The brother-in-law of Xerxes that was left to die with the rest of the Persians during the Battle of Plataea
Mardonius
Sophists
Cultural Pluralism
citizen
13. A Greek epic poem (attributed to Homer) describing the journey of Odysseus after the fall of Troy
Odyssey
Sophists
Triremes
Lysander
14. The commander of theAthenians during the Ionian revolt that lead to war
Hoplite
Pericles
The Parthenon
Miltiades
15. A foreign woman who Pericles had a very controversial relationship with
Persia
Sir Arthur Evans
Aspasia
citizen
16. The brother-in-law of Xerxes that was left to die with the rest of the Persians during the Battle of Plataea
The Delian league
Leonidas
Hubris
Mardonius
17. Public speaking
Cultural Pluralism
Themistocles
rhetoric
Lliad
18. An administrative district
labyrinth
Hubris
Satrapy
Pythia
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.
metics
mercenary
polis
metics
20. Public speaking
Isthmus
constitution
rhetoric
Peloponnesus
21. Nobles who gained power of Greece in the 700s and provided cavalry for the king's military adventures
Sir Arthur Evans
Satrapy
draconian
aristocrats
22. 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
Alcibiades
Leonidas
Pheidippides
Bards
23. 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
Mardonius
Battle of Plataea
Lliad
Sir Arthur Evans
24. The king of Persia that built up a huge empire and ruled it from 559 BCE to 530 BCE
Cyrus
Nike
Alcibiades
Melos
25. A kind of shield designed by theAthenians specifically for the phalanx
Alcibiades
Hoplon
citizen
Satrapy
26. In Spartan society - these were those residents who were neither helots nor Spartiates. Made of merchants and artisans
Themistocles
phalanx
Homer
perioikoi
27. A wall of shields created by foot soldiers marching close together in a rectangular formation. Made up of farmers
phalanx
aristocrats
Battle of Thermopylae
Triremes
28. The governor of an administrative district
mercenary
Satrap
draconian
Isthmus
29. Plan of gov- in 507 b.c. made freeAthenian born men citizens
constitution
Pericles
rhetoric
Odyssey
30. The elite 10 -000 Persian soldiers that were sent to fight the Spartans in the Battle of Thermopylae
The Long Walls
Isthmus
Odyssey
The Immortals
31. In ancient Greece - a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it
Cultural Pluralism
tyrant
oligarchy
symposium
32. Another name for the Delphic Oracle
Pythia
draconian
'dark age'
mercenary
33. The people from the island of Melos
Hereditary Monarchy
The Immortals
Melians
polis
34. An area in the middle east that the Persian empire was built on
Hereditary Monarchy
Persia
Aspasia
Pythia
35. 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
Sir Arthur Evans
aristocrats
Homer
36. The son of Darius that became king of Persian and lost the second Persian war
Xerxes
Sophists
Sir Arthur Evans
'dark age'
37. A huge temple forAthena that was very expensive and time consuming for theAthenians. The building of the temple was overseen by Pericles.
Lysander
Pythia
Lysander
The Parthenon
38. The commander of theAthenians during the Ionian revolt that lead to war
Miltiades
Satrapy
Pythia
aristocrats
39. A battle between the Persians and theAthenians and Ionians in which the Persians wanted control of Ionia - and the Ionians andAthenians met at Marathon and fought until theAthenians won
aristocrats
Battle of Marathon
democracy
The Long Walls
40. A Greek leader that helped the Greeks greatly by deceiving the Persians during the Battle of Salamis
Persia
Battle of Thermopylae
Hereditary Monarchy
Themistocles
41. The king of Sparta during the Battle of Thermopylae
oligarchy
Leonidas
Lliad
Homer
42. 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
Melos
draconian
Melians
43. A foreign woman who Pericles had a very controversial relationship with
Battle of Salamis
Aspasia
Odyssey
Satrapy
44. 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.
Nike
metics
citizen
Pheidippides
45. The king of the Persian empire from 522 to 480 BCE who spit the area into 20 administrative areas
Pericles
Lliad
Darius
mercenary
46. The anti-Delian league that was a league of city-states in the Peloponnesus that fought against the Delian league (Athens).
aristocrats
Isthmus
The Peloponnesian League
constitution
47. The southern peninsula of Greece. Location of Sparta
Hubris
Peloponnesus
Darius
labyrinth
48. A wall of shields created by foot soldiers marching close together in a rectangular formation. Made up of farmers
phalanx
democracy
The Long Walls
Melos
49. A huge wall aroundAthens to protect it that was ordered to build by Pericles
tyrant
Hereditary Monarchy
Hoplon
The Long Walls
50. A land bridge
Hubris
Isthmus
Leonidas
'dark age'