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WorksheetsGreece Wk 10 Only
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 3600secs
Who were the first people to come to Greece c. 3,000 B.C?
The Minoans
The Mycenaeans
The Spartans
The Persians
Who conquered the Minoans and Greece between 1,900-1,700 B.C?
The Persians
The Romans
The Spartans
The Mycenaeans
What did the Spartans avoid because they said it led to laziness?
Too much food
Democracy
Trade with Athens
Wealth
What new idea was born in Athens more than 2,000 years ago?
Trial by jury
Democracy
Elections
International trade
Sparta divided their people into citizens, slaves, and ________
Outsiders
Immigrants
Prisoners
Workers
Who said, "Education should be the rattle for young people"?
Socrates
Alexander the Great
Plato
Aristotle
Since the Greeks believed in Zeus, Hera, Hades, Demeter, (etc) they would be said to practice what kind of religion?
Polytheistic
Theocratic
Monotheistic
Atheistic
Who was the chief god of the Greeks?
Hades
Ra
Zeus
Jupiter
Who would the Greeks visit to hear about their future?
The prophets
A fortune teller
Hermes
Oracles
What would the Greeks sacrifice to Zeus at the start of the Olympics?
Oxen
Cattle
Sheep
Doves
Women in Greece started their own games to honor the goddess....
Athena
Aphrodite
Persephone
Hera
Who was Demeter's daughter?
Hera
Persephone
Aphrodite
Venus
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?
10
5
35
12
What is Greece's highest peak at 9,570'?
Mt. Sinai
Mt. Nebal
Mt. Athens
Mt. Olympus
Why type of landform is the country of Greece?
Island
Peninsula
Isthmus
Strait
Which event in nature does the Myth of Persephone attempt to explain?
Volcanoes
Hurricanes
Changing of seasons
Thunder and Lightning
The Antikythera Mechanism was a clockwork device discovered near Syracuse Greece. Archaeologist believe that it was invented by which famous mathematician?
Eclud
Pythagoras
Aristotle
Archimedes
Describe ox-turning (be specific/detailed):
Specifically, explain the events that led up to the Persian Wars (use lots of detail from Studies Weekly):
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:
