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Ancient Greece

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Classical Greek culture, especially philosophy, had a powerful influence on ancient Rome, which carried a version of it to many parts of the Mediterranean Basin and ___________.

a)

Europe

b)

Middle East

c)

West Asia

2.

Greek culture, in a few centuries and with a limited population, managed to explore and make progress in many fields of ________, ________, ________ and knowledge in general.

a)

science/mathematics/philosophy

b)

music/technology/dance

c)

sculpture/mechanics/warfare

3.

The __________ is a former temple on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, dedicated to the goddess Athena, whom the people of Athens considered their patron.

a)

Parthenon

b)

Apollo

c)

Artemis

4.

The __________ is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historic significance, the most famous being the Parthenon.

a)

Acropolis of Athens

b)

Temple of Artemis

c)

Erechtheum

5.

The ___________________ covers the period of Mediterranean history between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire.

a)

Hellenistic period

b)

Classical Period

c)

Archaic Period

6.

_________ was a king (basileus) of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon and a member of the Argead dynasty.

a)

Otto

b)

Alexander the Great

c)

Leonidas I

7.

Alexander's legacy includes the______ and syncretism which his conquests engendered, such as Greco-Buddhism.

a)

Architecture

b)

military dominance

c)

cultural diffusion

8.

4th century BC Greek gold and bronze rhyton with head of Dionysus, Tamoikin Art Fund.

a)
b)
c)
9.

_________ has 52 peaks and deep gorges. The highest peak, Mytikas, meaning "nose", rises to 2,917 meters (9,570 ft). It is one of the highest peaks in Europe in terms of topographic prominence.

a)

Everest

b)

Mount Olympus

c)

Mont Blanc

10.

Marble bust of Pericles with a Corinthian helmet, Museo Chiaramonti, Vatican Museums; Pericles was a key populist political figure in the development of the radical Athenian democracy

a)
b)
c)
11.

_________ (c. 495 – 429 BC) was a prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during its golden age

a)

Herodotus

b)

Cleisthenes

c)

Pericles

12.

Alexander Mosaic, National Archaeological Museum, Naples.

a)
b)
c)
13.

Battle of Marathon, (September 490 BCE), in the Greco-______ Wars, decisive battle fought on the Marathon plain of northeastern Attica in which the Athenians, in a single afternoon, repulsed the first ______ invasion of Greece.

a)

Persian/Persian

b)

Roman/Roman

c)

Germanic/Germanic

14.

The Discobolus of Myron is a Greek sculpture completed at the start of the Classical Period, figuring a youthful ancient Greek athlete throwing discus, about 460–450 BC.

a)
b)
c)
15.

The Venus de Milo (Greek: Αφροδίτη της Μήλου, Aphroditi tis Milou) is an ancient Greek statue and one of the most famous works of ancient Greek sculpture.

a)
b)
c)
16.

The Doryphoros, "Spear-Bearer"; Latinised as Doryphorus) of Polykleitos is one of the best known Greek sculptures of classical antiquity, depicting a solidly built, muscular, standing warrior, originally bearing a spear balanced on his left shoulder.

a)
b)
c)
17.

The Ancient Greek ruins of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi date from the 4th century BC, and are the remains of a peripteral Doric structure.

a)
b)
c)
18.

The Antikythera mechanism is an ancient Greek analogue computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses for calendar and astrological purposes decades in advance.

a)
b)
c)
19.

Hipparchus of Nicaea (c. 190 – c. 120 bc) was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician. He is considered the founder of trigonometry but is most famous for his incidental discovery of precession of the equinoxes.

a)
b)
c)
20.

Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks and a genre of Ancient Greek folklore. These stories concern the origin and the nature of the world, the lives and activities of deities, heroes, and mythological creatures, and the origins and significance of the ancient Greeks' own cult and ritual practices.

a)
b)
c)
d)