SS7 Chapter 8 Test Study Guide

Polytheistic means...

• One God

• Many Gods

• Few Gods

Religion was important to the Greeks because...

• They loved God

• They believed the Greek Gods could do anything and everything

• They used religion to help explain their world and understand nature's forces.

The highest mountain in Greece where the Gods were believed to live...

• Olympics/Olympus

• Ida

• Rainier

• Fuji

Powerful deities who were overthrown by the Olympian gods...

• Socrates

• Sophists

• Titans

• Tridents

King of the gods...

• Hades

• Zeus

• Poseidon

• Apollo

The Olympic Games were run every...

• 2 years

• 5 years

• 6 years

• 4 years

What is an oracle?

• A sacred shrine where a priest spoke for the god

• A story

• A stature of a god

• A house where the god lived

When was the Golden Age of Greece...

• 700 B.C. - 400 B.C.

• 500 B.B. - 350 B.C.

• 600 B.C. - 400 B.C.

• 800 B.C. - 500 B.C.

One example of a Greek epic...

• The Iliad

• Romeo and Juliet

• The Golden Goose

• The Republic

What were Sophists best known for teaching?

• Reading

• Language

• Religion

• Rhetoric