Ancient Greece Test

What is another name for a Greek city-state?

• Polling Place

• Acropolis

• Polis

• Oligarchy

Who were the ancient people who created the first civilization in Ancient Greece, lived on the island of Crete and built a grand palace in the city of Knossos?

• Minoans

• Romans

• Persians

• Spartans

What ancient civilization eventually replaced the Minoans as the major power in the Aegean sea, after the Minoan civilization disappeared?

• Romans

• Spartans

• Persians

• Mycenaeans

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

What is a form of government in which all citizens get a vote?

• Democracy

• Assembly

• Oligarchy

• Tyranny

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

Which type of government elects a smaller group of citizens to make laws and run the government?

• direct democracy

• communism

• representative democracy

• oligarchy

The woman whose work helped to shape Plato's ideas.

• Thucydides

• Leonidas

• Aspasia

• Pericles