Ancient Greece Review

Which ancient Greek city-state would you find the majority of young men involved in the military? 

• Athens
• Sparta
• Crete
• Olympia

What word best describes the land of the Greek peninsula?

• rocky and mountainous
• flat
• desert
• rolling plains

Athens main rival was the city state of 

• Anatolia
• Marathon
• Sparta
• Thermopylae

Which of the following is a  government where a few wealthy people rule?

• Monarchy
• Oligarchy
• Democracy 
• Communism

Which of these is NOT true about the geography of Ancient Greece?

• Greece is made up of small islands and peninsulas

• Greece had a lot of good farmland

• Greece is rocky and mountainous

• The mountains and seas isolated Greek city-states

Which Greek city-state became the most powerful and important of them all around 700 B.C.?

• Minoa

• Troy

• Athens

• Sparta

Athens, Sparta, or both: used helots to do most of the work;

• Athens

• Sparta

• Both

The Persian leader who fought against Sparta AND Athens in the Battle of Thermopylae

• Xerxes I
• Cyrus II (the Great)
• Darius I

The Spartan king who led the Greek army at Thermopylae was

• Lycurgus
• Themistocles
• Leonidas
• Pheidippides

Why did the first Persian War start?

• Persia wanted to punish Athens for interfering in the Ionian Revolt.
• Sparta and Athens were competing to be the best city-state .
• Persia wanted revenge for their defeat at Marathon.
• Sparta and Athens both wanted to defeat Persia.