Geography (Emory)
What type of landform is Sparta on?
Peninsula
Who are the three gods who rule skies, the underworld, and ocean?
Zeus, Hades, and Posidien.
The earliest Greek statues were influenced by which ancient civilization?
Ancient Egypt.
Who ran at the Battle of Marathon to tell Athens they had won?
Pheidippidies
What was the primary mode of transportation in Greece?
(Hint: It involves water)
Ferries.
What is the tallest mountain in Greece?
Mount Olympus
Why did Icarus fall into the ocean?
He flew too close to the sun.
What are the three pillars that the Greeks used in their architecture? From simple to most complicated.
Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian.
How many soldiers did the battle of Thermopylae have on the Persia and Spartan sides.
300 Spartans and 120,000-300,000 Persians.
What did the Greeks rely on for food? (Hint: four foods)
Wheat, barley, olives, and grapevines.
Greece is described as what landscape.
Mountainous.
What is Athena the Goddess of?
Wisdom and War.
What was the theatre that could hold 15,000 people in Athens?
The Dionysus Theater.
Who won the Battle of Salamis and how did they win?
The Athenians won by their strategy.
How many people could be on the city council?
500 people.
There are thousands of ______ in Greece.
Islands.
Who gave the humans fire?
Prometheus
The_______ ___is not worth living.
(Socrates's first quotation)
"The unexamined life is not worth living."
Who won the Peloponnesian War and why?
Sparta won because they managed to destroy the Athenian fleet.
______ women in Athens could normally not have jobs, but ______ women could. (Word bank: richer, poorer.)
Richer women in Athens could normally not have jobs, but poorer women could.
Describe the climate of Greece in the summer. Then describe the different climate in the winter.
Dry, warm summer and mild, wet winter.
What was Hercules fifth labor and how did he do it?
(Hint: It involves a river)
Cleaning Augean stables.
Who wrote these philosophies?
First: The unexamined life is not worth living.
Second: The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
Third:Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.
Socrates.
Why did Sparta dislike Athens?
Athens controlled the Delian league.
What were Greek coins called?
(It starts with a D)
Drachmas.