Ancient Greece Quiz

What is a city-state in ancient Greece called?

• Hellenistic

• Polis

• Acropolis

• Phalanx

Who was the Athenian leader known for advancing democracy and ordering the construction of the Parthenon?

• Plato

• Alexander the Great

• Socrates

• Pericles

What is the formation of soldiers carrying shields close together for defense called?

• Oligarchy

• Tyranny

• Phalanx

• Sparta

Who was the Athenian philosopher who believed that honor was more important than wealth or fame?

• Alexander the Great

• Pericles

• Plato

• Socrates

Who was a student of Socrates and believed in the theory of Forms?

• Socrates

• Plato

• Pericles

• Alexander the Great

During which era did the Greek language and ideas spread to the non-Greek world?

• Hellenistic Era

• Dark Ages/Middle Ages

• Middle Ages

• Peloponnesian Wars

What was the government type in Sparta?

• Oligarchy

• Tyranny

• Monarchy

• Democracy

What was the territory of Greek settlements on the coast of Anatolia called?

• Ionia

• Thermopylae

• Peloponnesian Peninsula

• Macedonia

Who was the ancient kingdom north of Greece, whose ruler Philip II conquered Greece?

• Peloponnesian Peninsula

• Thermopylae

• Macedonia

• Ionia

What was the war, fought around 1200 B.C., in which an army led by Mycenaean kings attacked the independent trading city of Troy in Anatolia?

• The Persian Wars

• The Peloponnesian Wars

• The Hellenistic Era

• The Trojan War