Ancient Greece

Why was Socrates executed?

• He was poisoned
• He was blamed for corrupting the youth of Athens
• He used the Socratic Method
• He was old

Which philosopher was a tutor for Alexander the Great when he was a boy?

• Aristotle
• Plato
• Socrates
• Sappho

The city-state of Sparta took this form of government in which a small group had the power to make decisions for the entire society

• Oligarchy
• Democracy
• Monarchy
• Tyranny

Semi legendary figure who created social and political institutions that turned Sparta into a powerful city-state

• Leonidas
• Lycurgus
• Pericles
• Cleisthenes

Powerful city state located in the south of the Peloponnesus whose citizens valued strength and believed that society was more important than the individual

• Athens
• Delphi
• Corinth
• Sparta

Age when Spartan boys began military training

• Thirty
• Sixty
• Seven
• Eighteen

Athens main rival was the city-state of

• Anatolia
• Marathon
• Sparta
• Thermopylae

The Spartans conquered a neighboring area and forced its residents to become

• colonists
• slaves
• soldiers
• tyrants

Ten years after the first battle in the Persian Wars, Darius' son Xerxes tried to conquer Greece once more.
Which Greek city-state helped Athens?

• Mycenae 
• Crete
• Sparta
• Troy

Why did the first Persian War start?

• Persia wanted to punish Athens for interfering in the Ionian Revolt.
• Sparta and Athens were competing to be the best city-state .
  
• Persia wanted revenge for their defeat at Marathon.
• Sparta and Athens both wanted to defeat Persia.