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Greece Wk 10 Only

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 3600secs

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who were the first people to come to Greece c. 3,000 B.C?

a)

The Minoans

b)

The Mycenaeans

c)

The Spartans

d)

The Persians

2.

Who conquered the Minoans and Greece between 1,900-1,700 B.C?

a)

The Persians

b)

The Romans

c)

The Spartans

d)

The Mycenaeans

3.

What did the Spartans avoid because they said it led to laziness?

a)

Too much food

b)

Democracy

c)

Trade with Athens

d)

Wealth

4.

What new idea was born in Athens more than 2,000 years ago?

a)

Trial by jury

b)

Democracy

c)

Elections

d)

International trade

5.

Sparta divided their people into citizens, slaves, and ________

a)

Outsiders

b)

Immigrants

c)

Prisoners

d)

Workers

6.

Who said, "Education should be the rattle for young people"?

a)

Socrates

b)

Alexander the Great

c)

Plato

d)

Aristotle

7.

Since the Greeks believed in Zeus, Hera, Hades, Demeter, (etc) they would be said to practice what kind of religion?

a)

Polytheistic

b)

Theocratic

c)

Monotheistic

d)

Atheistic

8.

Who was the chief god of the Greeks?

a)

Hades

b)

Ra

c)

Zeus

d)

Jupiter

9.

Who would the Greeks visit to hear about their future?

a)

The prophets

b)

A fortune teller

c)

Hermes

d)

Oracles

10.

What would the Greeks sacrifice to Zeus at the start of the Olympics?

a)

Oxen

b)

Cattle

c)

Sheep

d)

Doves

11.

Women in Greece started their own games to honor the goddess....

a)

Athena

b)

Aphrodite

c)

Persephone

d)

Hera

12.

Who was Demeter's daughter?

a)

Hera

b)

Persephone

c)

Aphrodite

d)

Venus

13.

The Greeks invented trial by jury where they would have hundreds of citizens decide your fate instead of one ruler. Today our juries have how many people on them?

a)

10

b)

5

c)

35

d)

12

14.

What is Greece's highest peak at 9,570'?

a)

Mt. Sinai

b)

Mt. Nebal

c)

Mt. Athens

d)

Mt. Olympus

15.

Why type of landform is the country of Greece?

a)

Island

b)

Peninsula

c)

Isthmus

d)

Strait

16.

Which event in nature does the Myth of Persephone attempt to explain?

a)

Volcanoes

b)

Hurricanes

c)

Changing of seasons

d)

Thunder and Lightning

17.

The Antikythera Mechanism was a clockwork device discovered near Syracuse Greece. Archaeologist believe that it was invented by which famous mathematician?

a)

Eclud

b)

Pythagoras

c)

Aristotle

d)

Archimedes

18.

Describe ox-turning (be specific/detailed):

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19.

Specifically, explain the events that led up to the Persian Wars (use lots of detail from Studies Weekly):

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20.

Our text says that the Persian Wars are important to our history (and I agree). List some reasons from the text why it's important that the Greeks won:

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