The Ancient Greeks

What is a group of armed foot soldiers arranged close together in rows?

• phalanx
• polis
• agora
• hoplite

Who made Athens more democratic?

• Darius I
• Leonidas
• Pericles
• Plato

What is the term for a Greek city-state?

• colony
• agora
• polis
• ephor

What was the monotheistic religion of Persia?

• Zoroastrianism
• Judaism
• Christianity
• Islam

Who was the Persian king who invaded Greece at Marathon?

• Leonidas
• Darius I
• Xerxes
• Pericles

Who is a person who takes power by force and rules with total authority?

• oligarch
• tyrant
• president
• bad guy

Who defeated the Greeks at Thermopylae?

• Xerxes
• Leonidas
• Cyrus the Great
• Socrates

Who was the Spartan king who led soldiers into battle at Thermopylae?

• Leonidas
• Aspasia
• Alexander the Great
• Thucydides

What was the market where people meet and debated?

• agora
• acropolis
• polis
• ephor

What is a system of government in which a few people hold power?

• oligarchy
• representative democracy
• direct democracy
• theocracy