Ancient Greece

What role does Odysseus play in the Iliad?

• The face that launched a thousand ships and started the Trojan War

• Came up with the idea of the Trojan Horse

• The greatest Troy warrior and brother to Paris

• The greatest fighter in the Trojan War

Sparta

• Women could own land and travel; Men spent their lives in the military

• Governed by democracy

• King that united Persia by allowing captured peoples to keep their cultures

• High hill upon which a Greek fortress was built

Polytheism

• worshipping one god

• worshipping more than one god

• believing there is no god

• worshipping yourself

What did Athena do when she became angry with Arachne?

• tied her to a mountain where an eagle ate her liver every day

• turned her into a ladybug

• turned her into a spider

• Gave her a box of doom

What role does Hector play in the Iliad?

• The face that launched a thousand ships and started the Trojan War

• Came up with the idea of the Trojan Horse

• The greatest Troy warrior and brother to Paris

• The greatest fighter in the Trojan War

In Athens, any ______ can vote.

• free man who was a citizen

• person with a green card

• foreigner or slave with permission

• free woman who was marries

What type of government did the Greeks develop?

• Tyranny

• Democracy

• Oligarchy

• Monarchy

Minoans were from which area of Greece

• Crete

• Mycenae

• Athens

• The north

In the Iliad, how does Achilles become immortal?

• His mother dips him into the River Styx.

• His deeds pleased the gods.

• His other was Athena, the goddess of war.

• His father was Hades.

Who won the Persian War?

• Greeks

• Persia

• Rome

• Egypt