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Ancient Greece Study Guide

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What island was the Minoan Civilization located?

a)

Athens

b)

Troy

c)

Crete

d)

Mt. Olympus

2.

What are Greek cities called?

a)

Polis

b)

town

c)

acropolis

3.

Who wrote the Epic about the Trojan War and its aftermath

a)

Plato

b)

Homer

c)

Hippocrates

d)

Aristotle

4.

What was Homer's epics called?

a)

The Iliad

b)

The History of the Persians War

c)

The Hippocratic Oath

d)

The Odyssey

5.

A ____ is a fortified hilltop where citizens would gather to discuss city government

a)

polis

b)

acropolis

c)

column

6.

Which city practiced democracy?

a)

Athens

b)

Mycenae

c)

Sparta

d)

Corinth

7.

Which city practiced Monarchy

a)

Athens

b)

Mycenae

c)

Sparta

d)

Corinth

8.

Which city practiced oligarchy?

a)

Athens

b)

Mycenae

c)

Sparta

d)

Corinth

9.

Which city practiced tyranny?

a)

Athen

b)

Mycenae

c)

Corinth

d)

Sparta

10.

Who had citizenship and was able to vote in

Athens?

a)

women

b)

slaves

c)

men and women

d)

men

11.

How did the Greeks win the Persian War.

a)

They united the city-states

b)

They had a better navy

c)

They had better education

12.

Check all that are correct

a)

Women had more rights in Athens

b)

Women had more rights in Sparta

c)

Sparta had no democracy

d)

Athens was a monarchy

13.

What was Socrates?

a)

A mathematician

b)

A philosopher

c)

A poet

d)

A king

14.

Who was the king of Macedonia?

a)

Plato

b)

Pericles

c)

Darius

d)

Alexander the Great

15.

Who was the father of geometry

a)

Plato

b)

Euclid

c)

Homer

d)

Pericles

16.

Who is the hippocratic oath named after?

a)

Socrates

b)

Pericles

c)

Euclid

d)

Hippocrates

17.

Check all that apply: What are some important contributions of Greek cultures to Western civilization?

a)

math

b)

philosophy

c)

medicine

d)

astronomy

18.

Who invented the screw?

a)

Euclid

b)

Plato

c)

Archimedes

d)

Alexander the Great

19.

What are types of Greek columns? (Choose 3)

a)

Doric

b)

Ionic

c)

Corinthian

d)

Thessalonian

20.

What is this?

a)

polis

b)

acropolis

c)

colmun

d)

ancient ruins