1. Ancient Greece Test Review

2. What is a Jury?

3. A Jury is a group of citizens chosen to hear evidence in a court of law. o They decide Guilt or Innocence

4. Who was Socrates?

5. He was a famous Greek teacher. o He was put to death for corrupting children. o He taught about the right way to live. o He discussed the government issues.

6. What is an area of land nearly surrounded by water?

7. Peninsula

9. Crete

11. The Tigris River

12. What sea is this?

13. The Mediterranean Sea

15. The Red Sea

16. Greek merchants competed with traders from _____________, which is the present day country of Lebanon.

17. Phoenicia

19. Rhodes

20. What sea is this?

21. The Ionian Sea

22. Name two differences between Sparta and Athens.

23. o The amount of training. (from age 7) o In Athens women were not encouraged to ask questions. o Athenian boys worked each day with their fathers in the fields, in pottery or stone-working shops. o Spartan women trained vigorously while women in Athens led more gentle lives.

24. The ancient Greek gods and goddesses lived on what mountain?

25. Mount Olympus

26. What was the name of the Greek poet that wrote the Odyssey?

27. Homer o He also wrote the Illiad. o He is not Homer Simpson!

29. Italy

30. What is the name of the island that is the largest of the Greek islands and is one day sail south of the Greek mainland?

31. Crete

32. What is the name of the island that is located East of Crete? It was home to one of the 7 wonders of the ancient world?

33. Rhodes

34. What continent is this?

35. Africa

37. Sicily

39. Thessaly

41. Macedonia

43. Thrace

44. What is the name of the place that has plains, suitable for farming and is located on the peninsula that juts into the Aegean Sea?

45. Attica

46. What is the name of the large peninsula that lies to the southwest of Attica? It is shaped like a giant hand reaching toward Crete.

47. Peloponnesus

48. Each community usually revolved around one city. The Greek word for this kind of city-state was ___________.

49. Polis

51. The Adriatic Sea

52. What is a group of lawmakers who voted on issues that helped to shape the future of the city?

53. Assembly

54. Who was Pericles?

55. An Athenian leader around 450B.C.E., who made sure that the poor as well as the rich were represented in the assembly.

56. What is a sheltered place along a coast?

57. Harbor

58. What is the name of the sea that marks the southern border of Greece?

59. Mediterranean Sea

61. The Nile River

63. Peloponnesus

64. What was a large hill where city residents could seek shelter and safety in times of war?

65. Acropolis

67. Attica

68. What is the name given to a clearing near the acropolis and often served farmers and craftsmen as a place of trade?

69. Agora

70. True or False o Slavery was common in ancient Greece.

71. True

72. What type of people were allowed to become citizens?

73. Free males

74. What type of government is where only a small group of powerful men were allowed to make decisions?

75. Oligarchy

76. True or False o Oligarchy is the only type of government that Athens has known.

77. False

79. The Tyrrhenian Sea

80. o Name one other form of government that the Athenian’s had experienced.

81. Monarchy

82. What does the word monarchy mean in Greek?

83. Rule by One

85. Cyprus

86. In 700B.C.E. what was Greece’s largest city state?

87. Sparta

88. What is the name of this river?

89. The Euphrates River

90. Look on the map, where was Sparta located?

91. Southern Peloponnesus

92. Did Sparta have slaves?

93. Yes

94. What type of landform is this?

95. Peninsula

96. How old were Spartan boys and girls when they began to train?

97. Seven

98. What does the word democracy mean in Greek?

99. Rule by the People

100. What two main features was a Greek polis build?

101. o Acropolis o Agora

102. What is the Acropolis?

103. The religious center of Athens.

104. The temple dedicated to Athena that was made of marble cut from a nearby mountain is called what?

105. The Parthenon

107. Phoenicia

109. The Black Sea

110. What is the search for wisdom?

111. Philosophy

112. Who was Socrates’s student that wrote down his teachings?

113. Plato o He also became a famous philosopher.

114. What was the name of the wars between Athens and Sparta?

115. The Peloponnesian Wars

116. How was the Peloponnesian War finally concluded?

117. Sparta cut off Athens food supply and starved them out.

118. Who was Alexander the Great?

119. o He conquered many areas. o As a result of his victories the Greek language and traditions spread as far as Egypt in Africa and the Indus Valley in Asia.

120. What was the name of Alexander the Greats teacher?

121. Aristotle

122. Bonus Question

123. Compare the military tactics of Hammurabi and the City-State of Sparta.

124. You’re Done.