End of Year Ancient World 5.0

The Mycenaeans were the early Greek civilization that produced the heroes of the Trojan War: Achilles, Agamemnon, and ...

• Polyphemus

• Auchinclaus

• Hamurrabi

• Odysseus

Greeks like Odysseus sailed on the ________ Sea between Greece and Anatolia

• Bering

• Caspian

• Aegean

• Black

The Mycenaean Civilization was the beginning of Greek History. But we only know about them from...

• hieroglyphics found on tombs

• books that survived the burning of the Library of Alexandria

• massive marble sculpture left in their ruins

• The stories of Homer, whose tales of the Trojan War tell us about their heroes

After centuries of success, Mycenaean Civilization collapsed, perhaps due to a massive volcanic eruption. What came next was a 300 year...

• Flood

• famine

• Golden Age

• Dark Age

Because of Greece's deep harbors and islands, Greeks became experts at...

• pearl diving

• olive oil production

• welcoming tourists

• ship-building, sailing and trade on ships

Spartan boys began their education at age 7, starting by ...

• being treated with extreme gentleness to develop empathy and sensitivity

• being thrown together in a herd of boys with just a cloak and learning to survive harsh conditions

• being sent to Africa, where they learned cooperative trading methods and accounting

• being given a fortune in silver coins with which they must make a profit

If Spartan men only trained for war, who did the productive work in Sparta?

• artificial intelligence

• The Spartans had Athenians come in twice a week to do all the housekeeping

• a free class of farmers who were well-paid for their produce

• slaves

In 508 BCE, the Athenians grew impatient with being ruled by tyrants, overthrew the traitor Peisistratus, and drove his supporters out of Athens in the first _______ in history.

• revolution

• aristocracy

• dance party

• sit-down strike

Cleisthenes was picked by the people of Athens to form a new government. He designed a _____________, the first in the world

• autocracy

• monarchy

• theocracy

• democracy