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Ancient Greece Trivia
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1. A person hired to fight for another country than their own (Persian war during dark age)
Isthmus
mercenary
Alcibiades
labyrinth
2. 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 -
constitution
Pheidippides
symposium
democracy
3. (1851 - 1941): British archeologist who unearthed the remains of the Minoan civilization (Knossos) on the island of Crete. - excavated Knossos
Sir Arthur Evans
Lysander
citizen
Themistocles
4. The brother-in-law of Xerxes that was left to die with the rest of the Persians during the Battle of Plataea
Satrapy
Mardonius
Nike
The Immortals
5. The governor of an administrative district
Darius
Hereditary Monarchy
Battle of Marathon
Satrap
6. A maze
draconian
Hoplon
labyrinth
The Delian league
7. A substitute ruler
Regent
The Immortals
tyrant
Hoplon
8. A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
Melos
Mardonius
Miltiades
democracy
9. The first great epic that Homer wrote. It was about a prince of Troy kidnapping the wife of the king of Sparta.
Hoplite
Lliad
Miltiades
Regent
10. 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
'dark age'
Satrapy
Alcibiades
Hoplon
11. A Corinthian colony and one of the wealthiest Greek cities that was at war withAthens when they aided Egesta
Darius
rhetoric
Triremes
Syracuse
12. The commander of theAthenians during the Ionian revolt that lead to war
Miltiades
Syracuse
tyrant
Battle of Marathon
13. A foreign woman who Pericles had a very controversial relationship with
polis
Melians
constitution
Aspasia
14. TheAthenian word for victory
Hereditary Monarchy
Nike
Darius
Battle of Salamis
15. Form of government in which a few wealthy people have the power
Leonidas
Syracuse
The Peloponnesian League
oligarchy
16. A Corinthian colony and one of the wealthiest Greek cities that was at war withAthens when they aided Egesta
Syracuse
Persia
Pheidippides
Alcibiades
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
Pythia
Darius
Syracuse
18. A political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them
democracy
Lysander
Homer
Hubris
19. 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
draconian
Regent
The Parthenon
Battle of Marathon
20. The king of Sparta during the Battle of Thermopylae
Leonidas
The Parthenon
Odyssey
democracy
21. 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
Battle of Salamis
Peloponnesus
Satrapy
Pheidippides
22. Greeks who sang songs to keep records
Aspasia
Pythia
oligarchy
Bards
23. The governor of an administrative district
oligarchy
Satrap
Battle of Thermopylae
Pythia
24. A kind of shield designed by theAthenians specifically for the phalanx
Battle of Thermopylae
Aspasia
Satrapy
Hoplon
25. An island east of Sparta that tried to remain neutral but was attacked byAthens and defeated
The Parthenon
Miltiades
Lliad
Melos
26. 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.
The Parthenon
Battle of Mycale
The Long Walls
Battle of Marathon
27. An administrative district
Satrapy
Xerxes
mercenary
labyrinth
28. The elite 10 -000 Persian soldiers that were sent to fight the Spartans in the Battle of Thermopylae
The Immortals
Hoplon
constitution
Bards
29. The son of Darius that became king of Persian and lost the second Persian war
Peloponnesus
tyrant
Pythia
Xerxes
30. Of or relating to Draco or his harsh code of laws
Pythia
Satrap
Bards
draconian
31. 300 years where everything fell apart and was destroyed
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32. An area in the middle east that the Persian empire was built on
Sophists
The Delian league
Satrapy
Persia
33. Greeks who sang songs to keep records
Peloponnesus
Pheidippides
The Delian league
Bards
34. 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
Peloponnesus
draconian
Lysander
Sir Arthur Evans
35. 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
perioikoi
Bards
Pericles
36. 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.
perioikoi
Satrapy
Lysander
polis
37. In ancient Greece - a ruler who had seized power without legal right to it
tyrant
rhetoric
aristocrats
symposium
38. Public speaking
Hubris
rhetoric
Sir Arthur Evans
Pythia
39. TheAthenian word for victory
labyrinth
Odyssey
Melians
Nike
40. A huge temple forAthena that was very expensive and time consuming for theAthenians. The building of the temple was overseen by Pericles.
Pheidippides
Battle of Mycale
Hoplite
The Parthenon
41. A huge temple forAthena that was very expensive and time consuming for theAthenians. The building of the temple was overseen by Pericles.
Xerxes
Xerxes
The Parthenon
The Immortals
42. A huge wall aroundAthens to protect it that was ordered to build by Pericles
The Long Walls
Odyssey
Xerxes
Cyrus
43. Long - thin -Athenian ships that were more maneuverable than other ships and greatly helped the Greeks in the Battle of Salamis
Hubris
Triremes
Melians
Isthmus
44. 300 years where everything fell apart and was destroyed
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45. Athenian soldiers that were named after their shields
Leonidas
Hoplite
Syracuse
Darius
46. Public speaking
rhetoric
Lliad
The Long Walls
The Delian league
47. The commander of theAthenians during the Ionian revolt that lead to war
Miltiades
Homer
draconian
Bards
48. 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
Hoplite
Melos
Battle of Thermopylae
49. A huge wall aroundAthens to protect it that was ordered to build by Pericles
citizen
The Long Walls
Aspasia
Bards
50. 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
Xerxes
Battle of Plataea
Satrapy
phalanx