6th Grade Ancient Greece

Which of these cities was the earliest to be founded in Greece?

• Sparta

• Athens

• Corinth

• Mycenae

Which word best describes the relationship between the ancient Greek city-states and the Persian Empire?

• disconnected

• uninterested

• friendly

• hostile

Which ancient Greek wrote epic poems?

• Aeschylus

• Hippocrates

• Homer

• Sophocles

The Olympic Games originally honored...

• Zeus, the ruler of the gods

• Alexander, king of all Greeks

• Caesar, the first Roman emperor

• Theodosius, founder of the games

A citadel, or fortress, that housed municipal and religious buildings in ancient Greek cities

• blockade

• oligarchy

• acropolis

• agora

open space in ancient Greek cities in which residents gathered for daily social activities

• acropolis

• agora

• stela

• oligarchy

independent kingdom or state made up of a city and the surrounding lands it controls

• city=state

• civilization

• agora

• polis

a person who is a legal resident of a place and has certain rights and privileges that non-citizens do not have

• representative

• citizen

• migrant

• polis

government in which the people have the power to make political decisions

• monarchy

• dictatorship

• democracy

• oligarchy

All of the people who have power gather together to create laws under which they will live

• direct democracy

• representative democracy

• polis

• agora