Ancient Greece Review

What was a unified formation of Greek soldiers called?

• Phalanx
• Phylange
• Assembly
• Ephor

What is another name for a Greek city-state?

• Polling Place
• Acropolis
• Polis
• Oligarchy

what is a hilltop in a Greek city state called? 

(It housed a fort and a temple to the city-state's local god or goddess)

• Agriculture
• Thermopylae
• Acropolis
• Ephor

What is a government where only a few, very wealthy people rule?

• Democracy
• Tyranny
• Oligarchy
• Assembly

A militaristic city-state where boys were trained from an early age to fight.

• Athens
• Delphi
• Corinth
• Sparta

A city-state which favored democracy and a well-rounded education. 
(Also, the largest city-state by a wide margin)

• Sparta
• Athens
• Delphi
• Corinth

An empire started by Cyrus the Great

• Greece
• Rome
• Persia
• Egypt

300 Spartan soldiers held the Persian army to a stalemate for three days before the Persians eventually defeated them in what famous battle?

• Battle of the Greeks
• Battle of Thermopylae
• Battle of Little Big Horn
• Battle of Pericles

Who was the leader of Athens after the defeat of the Persians and took athens into a "Golden Age" of prosperity and achievement?

• Pericles
• Leonidas
• Themistocles
• Socrates

What is the name for thinkers who reflect on the meaning of life?

• Soldiers
• Philosophers
• Ephors
• Helots