Ancient Greece: A History/Education in Greece/Gods & Oracles

On any given day one of every eight words we speak, read, or write is Greek in origin.

• True
• False

The ______________and ____________ are at latitude which produces moderate climate with more than 320 days of sunshine a year.

• Red and Black Seas
• Mediterranean and Aegean Seas
• Adriatic and Caspian Seas

Which island was the location of the Minoans, the earliest civilization of ancient Greece?

• Los
• Rhodes
• Ithaca
• Crete

Which war, according to the poet, Homer, had the Achaeans and Mycenaens besiege and destroy another Greek city-state because the prince of that city captured the wife of a Greek king?

• Trojan War
• Peloponnesian War
• Persian War

The seeds of democracy did not start during ancient Greece.

• True
• False

Which city-state came up with the first form of democracy?

• Sparta
• Athens
• Corinth
• Argos

Which of the following is NOT the reason Sparta moved in the opposite directions of having a democracy.

• It was settled by warlike inhabitants.
• Need to enslave the local population of "helots".
• An oracle told them that their people must be the protectors of the land.

Under which leader, did Athens flourish?

• Pericles
• Alexander the Great
• Cleisthenes
• Hammurabi

Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were known as great thinkers or ___________.

• Judges
• Leaders of war
• Debaters
• Philosophers

Where did Alexander the Great take his army and expand his empire?

• North to Europe
• South to Asia
• East to Asia
• West to Spain