The Ancient Greeks

The Greek epic that takes place after the Trojan War.

• Iliad

• Odyssey

• Mahabharata

• the Epic of Gilgamesh

In which city-state did women train physically, boys were raised to be warriors, & military was the main element in society<

• Athens

• Sparta

In which city-state did women have little rights, education was important, & military service was limited?

• Athens

• Sparta

In geographical terms, Greece is a large...

• island

• peninsula

• continent

• city-state

Early Greek soldiers marched in a formation called __________.

• a hoplite

• a knossos

• an acropolis

• a phalanx

Each Greek polis was like a tiny independent country because __________.

• each had its own army of hoplites

• mountains and seas divided them from one another

• each had its own god

• they were separated by hundreds of miles

How did Athens and Sparta differ?

• Athenian soldiers were more skilled than Spartan soldiers.

• Athenian women had more personal freedom than Spartan women.

• Athens had no slaves and Sparta had many.

• Athens had a large number of foreign residents and Sparta had few.

The History of the Persian Wars was written by __________.

• Herodotus

• Pericles

• Agamemnon

• Aspasia

The Greek concept of citizenship usually applied to __________.

• all the people

• landowning, native-born men

• all native-born men

• free men and women

The Spartans differed from other city-states in that they __________.

• did not set up colonies

• focused on education and government

• required women to stay home

• encouraged the arts