WorksheetsAncient Greece -2024
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 11mins
What is an area of land surrounded by water on three sides?
island
peninsula
isthmus
straight
What effect did mountains have on ancient Greek city-states?
Made it easy for the city-states to contact each other
Made trade very simple
Made communication difficult
Made them warmer in the summer
What was the most important way that ancient Greeks traded with faraway places?
By ship over the sea
By wagon over brick roads
By mule over the mountains
They were not able to trade
What is an oligarchy?
A government ruled by one supreme leader
A government ruled by a few rich men
A government where all the people have a vote
A complete lack of government
Who is a single ruler of a government that often takes power by force?
a tyrant
a president
a senator
a voter
Which type of Greek government is when many people are able to vote?
tyranny
anarchy
dictatorship
democracy
True or False? In a representative democracy all people vote for every law themselves.
True
False
How did kings in ancient Greece get their power?
They were put into power by the oligarchs
They were voted in by the people
They bought it with gold
The inherited it from someone in their family
Who was helped most by the laws that oligarchs made?
poor people
rich people
farmers
sailors
True or false, Sparta believed in training boys for the military at a young age?
True
False
Which one of the following was NOT part of an Athens education?
How to steal food
Reading and Writing
Theater
Art
Which of these ancient Greek cities was located on the sea coast?
Sparta
Athens
Both Athens and Sparta
Neither Athens or Sparta
What is one thing that Athens and Sparta had in common?
Both were peaceful
Both were named after a goddess
Both had a tyrant
Both had slaves
Who was honored by a temple called the Parthenon?
The God Poseidon
The Goddess Athena
The God Hermes
The God Parhenus
Who was the ruler of all the Greek gods and was the leader of Mt. Olympus?
Zeus
Dionysus
Apollo
Hades
In what shape of a theater could you best hear the actors without a microphone?
hill with actors on one side
rectangle with actors in the corner
pyramid with actors at the top
bowl with actors at the bottom
How did the philosopher Socrates make the government angry?
by sneaking into Greece
by dishonoring the gods
by trying to take power
by opening schools
Fighting was stopped every four years in Greece by which event?
The Parade of Persia
The Festival of Zeus
The Olympic Games
The World Cup
What made Athens lose to Sparta during the Peloponnesian War?
a devastating plague
a lack of weapons
a vicious tyrant
their ally surrendered
What is the relationship between Philip II (creator of the Macedonian Empire) and Alexander the Great (the conqueror of many lands)?
The weren't related
They were brothers
They were business partners
They were father and son
How did Alexander gain the trust of the people he conquered?
He honored their gods
He gave them vast riches
He complimented their queen
He built them trading ships
Why was Alexander the Great so important for many years after his death?
He wrote books that would be read for generations
He became a new god on Mt. Olympus
He showed what was wrong with democracy
He spread Greek culture to other places
