WH Unit 2 (Quiz)

Based on the island of Crete, this early Mediterranean civilization greatly influenced the Greeks.

Identify the seas that surround Greece

• Aegean

• Ionian

• Mediterranean

• Red

Greek word for "city-state"

Early Greek civilization founded by Indo-Europeans on the Balkan Peninsula (Greek mainland)

Homer's tale of the Trojan War

• The Iliad

• The Odyssey

Homer's tale about the adventures of the king of Ithaca following the Trojan War

• The Iliad

• The Odyssey

Thermopylae was the site of a battle in the Persian War in which 300 Spartans held off the entire Persian army while the rest of the Greek army retreated.

• True

• False

Persian king who fought against the Ionian rebellion and sought to punish Athens for supporting the rebels.

• Darius the Great

• Xerxes

• Alexander the Great

• Pericles

Persian king who launched a full-scale invasion of Greece to prove that he could succeed where his father had failed.

• Darius the Great

• Xerxes

• Alexander the Great

• Pericles

Temple in Athens