Ancient Greece Review

Who was the King of the Olympian gods?

• Hades

• Zeus

• Posiedon

• Hercules

Who was the god of the Sea?

• Hades

• Zeus

• Posiedon

• Hercules

Who was the god of the underworld?

• Hades

• Zeus

• Posiedon

• Hercules

An Athenian prince from ancient Greece who traveled to the island of Crete to defeat the Minotaur was named?

• Theseus

• Jason

• Hector

• Hercules

This Greek hero completed many tasks, including defeating a nine-headed monster called the hydra.

• Achilles

• Apollo

• Archimedes

• Hercules

This Greek Philosopher was a student of Socrates and started his own school called the Academy.

• Aristotle

• Plato

• Confucius

• Sapho

The Athenians were the head of an alliance meant to protect Greek city-states known as the ________?

• Delian League

• Peloponnesian League

• Greek League

• Major League

Sparta was a city-state well known for:

• Boys left home at the age of 7 to live in army barracks and begin their military training

• Winning the Peloponnesian Wars

• Training their women so that they could bear strong children

• Focusing education on Philosophy and mathematics

• Discarding children if they were born and deemed "unhealthy"

Athens was a city-state well known for:

• Starting the Delian League and turning it into an Athenian Empire

• Focusing their society on education, philosophy, the arts, and having a strong military

• Not educating their women because they "didn't need an education"

• Being the birthplace for Democracy

• Defeating Sparta in the Peloponnesian Wars

The art and practice of government is known as ________?

• Presidency

• Republican

• Democracy

• Politics