Olympics
Government
Smart Guys
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Vocabulary
100
What did the winners of the Olympic games receive?
What is a laurel wreath - kotinos
100
Government by all the people
Democracy
100
Invented a device to move water up hills?
Archimedes
100
Who built a bridge of boats over the Aegean Sea in the Persian War?
Persians
100
Greek foot soldiers
hoplites
200
Who could participate in the first Greek Olympics?
Freeborn Greek men
200
Government by a small group of people
Oligarchy
200
Who discovered a helpful triangle theorem?
Pythagoras
200
Who surrounded Athens and burnt the crops and countryside?
Sparta
200
Triremes
300
What were the female version of the Olympic games called?
Herean Games - for the goddess Hera
300
Government by a king or queen - single leader
Monarchy
300
Which philosopher did not believe in democracy?
Socrates
300
Who won the Peloponnesian War?
Sparta - Athens had to tear down the wall, deconstruct democracy, and destroy all but 12 of their ships.
300
formation for fighting by interlocking shields
Phalanx
400
What year was the Olympics first established?
776 BC
400
Government by a rich or noble class
Aristocracy
400
Who is known as the father of medicine, and doctors swear on his oath today?
Hippocrates
400
One thing Athens got to keep after losing the Peloponnesian war
slaves
400
Class of perple who were shop keepers
Metics
500
What did the ancient Greeks wear when competing in the Olympic games?
nothing
500
Government by the rich and wealthy
Plutocracy
500
Who is known as the father of History?
Herodotus
500
In the 2nd year of the Peloponnesian war, this event killed 25% of Athens' population
Plague
500
A freeman 18 years or older whose parents were both Athenian
Citizen in Athens