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Olympics
100
The name of this sea comes from an ancient Greek king.
What is the Aegean Sea?
100
This god is the king of all gods.
Who is Zeus?
100
The father of democracy.
Who was Cleisthenes?
100
This Greek storyteller was famous for reciting epic poems.
Who was Homer?
100
The ancient Greek god that the Olympics were held to honor.
Who is Zeus?
200
This geographical feature helped prevent invasions, but also made trade harder.
What are mountains?
200
The ancient Greek god of the sun.
Who is Apollo?
200
A government that is ruled by a group of rich landowners.
What is an aristocracy?
200
This Greek writer was famous for writing fables that taught valuable life lessons.
Who was Aesop?
200
This ancient Greek competition involved horses and wheels.
What are chariot races?
300
This natural disaster destroyed the Minoan civilization.
What is a volcano?
300
The ancient Greeks believed that they went here after death.
What is the Underworld?
300
A tyrant who enforced very strict laws.
Who was Draco?
300
The most famous of the ancient Greek lyrical poem writers.
Who was Sappho?
300
The city-state that the Olympics originated in.
What is Olympia?
400
The first civilization to settle in the Greek mainland and speak Greek.
Who were the Myceneans?
400
The name of all of the gods and goddesses as a whole.
What is the pantheon?
400
Women, slaves, and foreigners were not allowed to do this.
What is voting?
400
During this time period writing in ancient Greece almost died out.
What is the Dark Age?
400
A Greek competition that included five events.
What is the pentathlon?
500
The three seas that surround Greece.
What are the Ionian, Aegean, and Mediterranean.
500
The name of the temple in Athens that was built for the godddess Athena.
What is the Parthenon?
500
Having a small city with a small population made this type of government the best option.
What is a direct democracy?
500
The first letter of the Greek alphabet.
What is alpha?
500
A brutal game at the ancient Olympics with only two rules.
What is pankration?
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