The

Ancient Greeks Quiz 7) Who was the king of Crete?

Key Version A a) Agamemnon
b) Helen
1) What is the key version? c) Homer
a) A d) Mino
b) B e) Paris

2) What is a vocabulary word for land 8) What is a government led by kings and
surrounded on three sides by water? queens?
a) Assembly a) Democracy
b) Citizen b) Military state
c) Estate c) Monarchy
d) Jury d) Oligarchy
e) Peninsula e) Politics

3) What 3 seas surround the mainland of 9) What were the people of Crete known
Greece? as?
a) Aegean, Ionian, Mediterranean a) Athenians
b) Aegean, Arabian, Mediterranean b) Minoans
c) Arabian, Caspian, Red c) Persians
d) Arabian, Caspian, Ionian d) Spartans
e) Caspian, Black, Red e) Trojans

4) How much of the land in Greece could 10)In Ancient Greece, what were small
be used for farming? independent communities known as?
a) 4/5 (80%) a) Acropolis
b) 3/4 (75%) b) Empires
c) 1/2 (50%) c) Estates
d) 1/4 (25%) d) City-states
e) 0 (None) e) United states

5) What did Greek farmers grow well? 11) Who was the king of Mycenae?
a) Cotton and Grain a) Agamemnon
b) Cotton and Grapes b) Cyrus
c) Grain and Olives c) Mino
d) Grain and Grapes d) Paris
e) Grapes and Olives e) Philip

6) Where was the first Greek civilization? 12) Who invaded and destroyed the
a) Athens Mycenaean civilization?
b) Crete a) Athenian
c) Delphi b) Dorian
d) Sparta c) Persian
e) Troy d) Spartan
e) Trojan



 13) What was it called when writing 19) Rule by the people large numbers of
disappeared and the Greeks did not people participate in government?
have a strong government? a) Democracy
a) Bronze Age b) Oligarchy
b) Dark Age c) Tyranny
c) Ice Age
d) Golden Age 20) What government was used in
e) Stone Age Sparta?
a) Democracy
14) Who fought in the Trojan War? b) Oligarchy
a) Athens and Sparta c) Tyranny
b) Athens and Delphi
c) Athens and Troy 21) What government was used in
d) Sparta and Delphi Athens?
e) Sparta and Troy a) Democracy
b) Oligarchy
15) Who was the blind Greek poet that c) Tyranny
wrote about the Trojan War?
a) Alexander 22) When there was a shortage of land,
b) Bart food, and other resources in Ancient
c) Darius Greece who built their army to
d) Homer conquer its neighbors?
e) Simpson a) Athens
b) Crete
16) What are the 2 most famous poems c) Delphi
about the Trojan War? d) Sparta
a) Athens and Sparta e) None of the above
b) A Tale of Two Cities
c) Bible and Quran 23) What is a vocabulary word for
d) Iliad and Odyssey formation of heavily armed soldiers
e) Hera and Aphrodite who move together as a unit?
a) Aristocrat
17)What is a government ruled by a b) Citizen
single ruler? c) Jury
a) Democracy d) Phalanx
b) Oligarchy e) Politics
c) Tyranny
24) What is a vocabulary word that
18) What is a government in which most means military housing?
political power is held by small a) Annex
section of society? b) Artisan
a) Democracy c) Barracks
b) Oligarchy d) Citizen
c) Tyranny e) Fleet



 25) In the Peloponnesian War, who were 31) Who was the Spartan king that led
the supporters of Athens? 300 Spartan soldiers against the
a) Delian League Persians military?
b) Major League a) Alexander
c) National League b) Agamemnon
d) Peloponnesian League c) Leonidas
e) Trojan League d) Mino
e) Philip
26) In the Peloponnesian War, who were
the supporters of Sparta? 32) 300 Spartan soldiers died fighting the
a) Delian League Persians at the Battle of __________?
b) Major League a) Athens
c) National League b) Delphi
d) Peloponnesian League c) Marathon
e) Trojan League d) Sparta
e) Thermopylae
27) Who won the Peloponnesian War?
a) Athens 33) Who was Alexander the Greats
b) Delphi father?
c) Macedonia a) King Agamemnon
d) Sparta b) Cyrus the Great
e) Troy c) Darius the Great
d) King Mino
28)Who started the Persian Empire? e) King Philip
a) Alexander
b) Cyrus 34) Who was Alexander the Greats
c) Darius teacher?
d) Leonidas a) Aristotle
e) Philip b) Homer
c) Mr. Son
29) Who built the Royal Road? d) Odysseus
a) Alexander e) Paris
b) Cyrus
c) Darius 35) To discourage rebellions, what city-
d) Leonidas state did Alexander burn?
e) Philip a) Alexandria
b) Athens
30) During the Persian Wars, where did c) Sparta
Athenian soldiers force Persians d) Thebes
soldiers to retreat, and an Athenian e) Troy
solider ran 26.2 miles to announce the
victory?
a) Athens
b) Marathon
c) Persepolis
d) Sparta
e) Troy

 36) In 330 B.C., what was the capital of
the Persian Empire captured by
Alexander the Great?
a) Alexandria
b) Athens
c) Jerusalem
d) Persepolis
e) Sparta

37) What geographical circumstance
most likely led to the development of
city-states in ancient Greece? (DO
NOW 08/29/2017)
a) The fact that it mostly flat
b) Its closeness to Asia
c) An absence of rivers or coastlines
d) Its division into separate regions by
mountains

38) A direct democracy is one in which
(DO NOW 08/29/2017)
a) Representatives are elected by the
people to make laws.
b) All citizens participate in the law-
making and governing process.
c) A few powerful leaders are voted in
by the people.
d) An electoral college elects a president.

39) In what way were Athens and Sparta
similar? (DO NOW 08/30/2017)
a) They were both democracies.
b) They were both military states.
c) They were both on the same side in
the Peloponnesian War.
d) They both resisted Persian advances
into Greece.

40) What was one result of Alexanders
conquest of the Mediterranean world?
(DO NOW 08/30/2017)
a) The collapse of Greek civilization
b) The rise of the Roman culture
c) The development of democratic
practices in all Greek city-states
d) The spread of Greek culture to distant
lands