Greece Quiz 2022

1. The geography of ancient Greece is primarily ___. *

• flat and dry

• rocky and mountainous

• swampy and marshy

• flat and wet

The tallest mountain in ancient Greece was *

• Mt Marcy

• Mt. Vesuvius

• Mt. Olympus

• Mt Greece

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The Parthenon was *

• A temple dedicated to the goddess Athena

• A young man who ran 26 miles from Marathon to Athens to deliver the message of the Persian defeat

• king of Persia who tried to invade Greece but was defeated

• What Pericles built around his city-state of Athens to keep the Spartans out- unfortunately, it kept a plague in!

What continent is Greece located on?

• Asia

• Europe

• Africa

• North America

What body of water was to the south of Greece?

• Aegean Sea

• Ionian Sea

• Nile River

• Mediterranean Sea

This city state was well known for its fierce warriors.

• Sparta

• Athens

This city state was open to new ideas and visitors and valued philosophy and learning.

• Sparta

• Athens

Athens is named after the Greek goddess ___.

• Atan

• Ra

• Athena

Two main crops in Ancient Greece were

• wheat and fish

• olive oil and grapes

• sand and water

This city state was known for having the fiercest warriors in all of Greece ______.

• Athens

• Argo

• Sparta

• Thebes