It's all Greek to Me
The Greeks started this international sports tournament every four years where althletes competed.
What are the Olympics?
This massive 50,000 seat stadium in Rome was the ultimate spot to watch Gladiators fight, though it didn't have a roof and smelled heavily of sweat and wild animals.
What is the Colosseum?
This Greek God of the sky and thunder was the absolute kin of Mount Olympus though he spent a lot of time hiding from his very angry wife, Hera.
Who is Zeus?
This 6 foot long piece of woolen cloth was worn by upper class Roman citizens. IT was incredibly hard to fold, heavy and hot, making it the ancient version of a fancy suit.
What is a toga?
This Greek guy tutored Alexander the Great, studied everything from bugs to theater, and is basically the reason you have to take science class today.
Who is Aristotle?
In Sparta, if you weren't a tough warrior, you were basically a nobody. Boys were sent to a brutal military camp starting at what age?
What is 7 years old.
What city did Rome order to be abandoned, burned and destroyed after capturing the Carthaginians and selling them into slavery?
What is Carthage?
If you look at this snake-haired lady, you didn't just get scared-you literally turned to stone.
Who is Medusa?
What famous Egyptian woman did Julius Caesar have a relationship with?
Who is cleopatra?
This man had three goals for Athens to strengthen democracy, to increase Athens power in the wider world, and to beautify the city. oh and...he had helmet head.
Who is Pericles?
This city-stated invented democracy which literally translates to "people power," though they forgot to let women, enslaved people, or foreigners vote.
What is Athens?
Romulus and Remus were the mythical twin brothers who founded Rome, but they survived infancy by being adopted and raised by what wild animal?
What is a wolf?
The Romans loved Greek mythology so much that they basically copy and pasted all the Greek gods, but renamed almost all of them after these things.
What are the Planets?
. What civilization did the Romans borrow many of their Gods such as Jupiter from?
Who/what were the Greeks/Greece.
This Macedonian King conquered the known world by age 330, named about 20 cities after himself, and even named on after his favorite horse.
Who is Alexander the Great?
What seas did Greece use as their "Water Highways" for trade/travel.
What are the Mediterranean and Black seas.
Before they had emperors Rome was this type of government run by elected officials, a system that heavily inspired the modern US government.
What is a Republic?
This half-man, half-bull monster lived in a giant puzzle basement called the Labyrinth and ate anyone who got lost in there.
What is the Minotaur?
In Italy, these mural paintings were painted technique with water-based pigments and applied directly to plaster.
What are Frescos?
He was Rome's very first official Emperor, changing his name from Octavian to a title that means "The majestic one."
Who is Augustus?
Greece defeated this military giant and regained control of Greece. Who did they defeat?
Who are the Persians?
This Roman general got so powerful that the senate literally stabbed him in the back 23 times on the "Ides of March."
Who is Julius Caesar?
Who is the Roman king of the gods, equivalent to the Greek Zeus?
Who is Jupiter?
Spectators in the Colosseum gathered for free, state-sponsored spectacles designed to maintain social order. They watched violent and elaborate entertainment,such as...
What are
This Greek Philosopher annoyed the leaders of Athens so much by asking endless, annoying questions that they put him on trial and forced him to drink poison hemlock.
Who is Socrates?