Fast & Curious: History of Greece

What is another name for a Greek city-state?

• colony

• polis

• settlement

• fief

Which island did the Minotaur live on?

• Corinth

• Sparta

• Athens

• Crete

What do we call the Greeks who lived from 2000 to 1300 BCE and fought in the Trojan War?

• Minoans

• Monotheists

• Megarans

• Myceneans

What famous blind poet wrote epic poems about the Trojan War 400 years after it ended?

• Aeschylus

• Plato

• Socrates

• Homer

What was the Dark Ages?

• A time when trade slowed and poverty took place.
• A time when people stopped teaching each other craft work.
• A time when people stopped teaching each other how to write, and they forgot their written language.
• All of the above

What was the primary focus of the culture in the city-state of Athens?

• discipline & combat

• business & growing wealth

• power & conquest

• art & education

Athens is credited with the development of _________________, a form of government where the people rule themselves.

• tyranny

• oligarchy

• monarchy

• democracy

Kings are born to rule. How did tyrants come power?

• They seized it by force.

• They were chosen at random.

• They were elected by free men.

• They were appointed by the Assembly.

The Athenian Assembly was composed of all free male citizens. What was its purpose?

• to educate children

• to judge legal cases

• to make laws

• to regulate business & trade

What is the name of the powerful city state located in the south of the Peloponnesus whose citizens valued strength & believed that society was more important than the individual

• Athens
• Delphi
• Corinth
• Sparta