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Total questions: 43

Worksheet time: 43mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What were the two main city-states of Ancient Greece?
a)
Rome & Alexandria
b)
Corinth & Olympia
c)
Thebes & Argos
d)
Sparta & Athens
2.
What was the primary focus of much of the culture of the city-state of Sparta?
a)
Food & parties
b)
War & fighting
c)
Music & books
d)
Painting & sculpture
3.
Crete is the name of Greece's biggest __________?
a)
Body of water
b)
God/goddess
c)
island
d)
peninsula
4.
What was the primary focus of the culture in the city-state of Athens?
a)
War & fighting
b)
Athletics & competition
c)
Power & conquest
d)
Art & education
5.
What were the two combined cultures that made the Hellenistic culture?
a)
Greek & African
b)
Greek & Asian
c)
Greek & China
d)
Asian & African
6.

Which describes a time of great cultural growth, mainly taking place in Athens?

a)

Bronze Age

b)

Golden Age

c)

Stone Age

d)

Middle Ages

7.

The city-state that had a monarchy as its government was _____________.

a)

Athens

b)

Crete

c)

Sparta

d)

Thebes

8.

The Greeks believed in many gods such as Zeus, Poseidon, & Hades. This means the Greeks were _______________.

a)

Monotheistic

b)

Democratic

c)

Islamic

d)

Polytheistic

9.

The invasion of what army helped bring the city-states of Athens and Sparta together (united them)?

a)

Egyptian

b)

Byzantium

c)

Persian

d)

Mongolian

10.
How did Alexander spread Greek culture?
a)
He developed friendships with many lands in Europe.
b)
He adopted many Asian ways.
c)
He created a vast empire in Europe, Asia, & Africa.
d)
He rooted for the Cubs to win the World Series.
11.

Athens is credited with the development of _________________, a form of government where the people choose how they are ruled.

a)

Monotheism

b)

Anarchy

c)

Monarchy

d)

Direct Democracy

12.

The city-state that had a monarchy as its government was _____________.

a)

Athens

b)

Crete

c)

Sparta

d)

Thebes

13.

How did Greece's physical geography affect their ability to get resources?

a)

More cities were inland making for easier travel

b)

Islands made it easy to grow a variety of crops

c)

The mountains allowed for easy cultivation of food

d)

Scarcity of farmland pushed them to trade with each other

14.

What is a characteristic that Athens & Sparta SHARED?

a)

Each had a queen rule the city-state

b)

The each fought against Persia in the Persian War

c)

They were both ruled as an oligarchy

d)

Both societies gave women the same rights as men

15.

What important military tactic did the Greeks use to beat the Persians?

a)

Philosophy

b)

Phalanx

c)

Hammer & anvil

d)

Run & shoot

16.

Which of the following best explains what caused the end of the Golden Age of Greece?

a)

They started to allow women to become citizens.

b)

Their apples all became rotten.

c)

Peloponnesian War, a war between Greek city-states

d)

All of the above

17.

A century is _____ years.

a)

5

b)

10

c)

100

d)

1,000

18.

A decade is ______ years.

a)

5

b)

10

c)

100

d)

1,000

19.

A milennium is ______ years.

a)

10

b)

100

c)

1,000

d)

1,000,000

20.
Which ancient Greek city-state would you find the majority of young men involved in the military? 
a)
Athens
b)
Sparta
c)
Crete
d)
Olympia
21.
If you wanted to go buy and sell products in an open marketplace, you would go to the...
a)
Walmart
b)
Polis
c)
Agora
d)
Peloponneses  
22.
This Athenian leader was in power for 30 years during the "Golden Age" and helped make Athens more democratic
a)
Darius
b)
Solon
c)
Pericles
d)
Alexander 
23.
In order to better organize his large Persian Empire, Darius divided his land into multiple different________
a)
States
b)
Satrapies
c)
Countries
d)
Islands
24.
One of the first groups of people in Greece who introduced the use of iron weapons
a)
Minoans
b)
Mycenaeans 
c)
Dorians
d)
Persians
25.
If a small group of chosen officials make all the decisions in a government, that type of government is known as a ___________
a)
Democracy
b)
Theocracy
c)
Oligarchy
d)
Dictatorship 
26.
If you were someone who thought deeply about life's questions, you would be known as a _____________
a)
Archaeologist 
b)
Historian
c)
Philosopher
d)
Dorian
27.
This group enforced the laws and collected taxes in Sparta
a)
Police
b)
Ephors
c)
Nobles
d)
Assemblymen 
28.
Peisistratus became a popular leader when he_____________
a)
Allowed everyone to vote
b)
Lowered taxes
c)
Gave land to the landless farmers
d)
Brought glory back to Greece
29.
Increasing the wealth of Persia, gaining more glory, and seeking revenge after the death of Darius were three reasons why _________continued the Persian Wars
a)
Cyrus
b)
Xerxes
c)
Alexander
d)
Solon 
30.
Being able to navigate using the sun and the stars was something the Mycenaeans learned from the ___________
a)
Dorians
b)
Minoans
c)
Greeks
31.
Spartan men could return to their homes when they were______
a)
50
b)
40
c)
30
d)
20
32.
People forgot how to read and write during the _________
a)
Apocalypse 
b)
Dark Age
c)
Golden Age
d)
New Kingdom 
33.
Which alphabet did the Greek's base theirs off of?
a)
Egyptian
b)
Phoenician
c)
Assyrian
d)
Sumerian 
34.
Greece is in which continent?
a)
Europe
b)
Africa
c)
North America
d)
Asia
35.
A body of water with water on three sides is called a 
a)
continent
b)
island
c)
peninsula
d)
isthmus
36.
Greece is a peninsula that has a southern peninsula called
a)
Athens
b)
Sparta
c)
Peloponnesus
d)
Phoenicia
37.
The Greeks used a writing system developed by 
a)
Egyptians
b)
Phoenicians 
c)
Mycenaeans
d)
Romans
38.
A system that of writing that uses symbols to stand for individual sounds is called an 
a)
alphabet
b)
character
c)
codex
d)
hieroglyph
39.
In Greek, the word for a city-state was 
a)
civitas 
b)
barracks 
c)
democracy
d)
polis
40.
The upper class in Greece was called
a)
aristocracy 
b)
monarchy 
c)
oligarchy 
d)
tryanny
41.
Athens main rival was the city state of 
a)
Anatolia
b)
Marathon
c)
Sparta
d)
Thermopylae
42.
The Spartans conquered their neighbors and forced them to become 
a)
helots
b)
colonists
c)
soldiers
d)
tyrants
43.
Helots were 
a)
citizens
b)
oligarchs
c)
slaves
d)
merchants

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