Ancient Greece MidQuiz

The Polis's has two important areas, one for protection/worship and one that was used for a marketplace, debate area and voting area. What was the second place called?

• Acropolis

• Agora

• Palace

• Hilltop

Greece has three main landforms including mountain's and islands. The last landform is one that has water on three sides.

• peninsula

• isthmus

• Strait

• island

As Kings were able to spend time in luxury and the nobles decided to over throw the king - afterwards they each set up their own state called...

• polis

• satrap

• canton

• confederation

In Ancient Greece, slaves were common. Athens population included about 40% of slaves and Sparta's equalled about 60%. In Sparta these slaves were called...

• Helots

• Hoplites

• Prisoners of War

• Satraps

While the nobles started as good/fair leaders in the polis -eventually they became selfish and cruel which created poor and unhappy people in Greece. At this time a strong personality rose up and planned a rebellion to take over. This new leader, who was nice at this time (cruel in today's world) was known as a...

• tyrant

• dictator

• nobles

• feuhrer

After tyrants were in power, people called for new governments. Two common governments emerged at this time Sparta had one and Athenians the other. Which government did Sparta have which gave them two kings as their leaders?

• Oligarchy

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Direct Democracy

Throughout Ancient Greece, a group of people would tell the stories of the past as a form of entertainment using musical instruments and exaggerations of monsters, etc. These men lost oral history part once the Phoenician alphabet arose - these men were the...

• bards

• nobles

• tyrants

• citizens

The first civilization to rise in Ancient Greece were a group of people who...

• were called the Minoans and lived on Crete

• were called the Mycenaeans who lived on the Peloponnesus Peninsula

• were called the Dorians who came from Asia

• were called the Hellenes who came back after the Dorian threat ended

Greece is primarily made up of mountains, islands and peninsulas. These features created fiercely independent areas because they were...

• isolated causing very separate cities to exist which would lead to conflict

• far apart from each other which didn't allow them to trade

• similar to the other city states around them but different from others in farther sections

• passionate about their lifestyle and couldn't figure out how to get along

The Minoans were a peaceful civilization who traded and taught people there ways. Abruptly their civilization came to an end because

• a group called the Mycenaeans befriended them but later invaded killing them all after they learned all they could.

• a group called the Dorians invaded them to take land because land equals money and power

• an underwater volcano erupted causing a tsunami which wiped out their civilization

• a neighboring island invading them in order to take over their trade routes