Music was brought into these special ceremonies where marriages were bonded and Gods were worshipped.
What are religious purposes?
100
This round pad was used to keep cadence in song and is typically beaten with sticks to make noise.
What is a drum?
100
Also what we call the words in songs, this type of poem focused on strong emotions and was read in first person.
What is Lyric Poetry?
100
Soldiers went into battle typically with a weapon such as a sword or spear, as well as one of these on their head for protection.
What is a helmet?
100
Olive Garden is an example of food from this country.
Where is Italy?
200
Music, particularly percussion instruments, would play as two armies met on the battlefield.
What are military purposes?
200
This large string instrument is plucked by the hand of the musician seated beside it and is considered to produce some of the most eloquent sound of any instrument.
What is a harp?
200
This type of literature has one real purpose, to make people laugh!
What is Comedy?
200
Most people living in ancient Greece were considered to be this, or unable to read and write.
What is illiterate?
200
This city is home to the famous Colosseum.
Where is Rome?
300
Poets and song writers often wrote their works of literature so that they could be read aloud to music.
What are literary purposes?
300
This brass instrument is easily recognized in today's marching bands for it's large bell and deep sounds, but it was also used in war by the ancient Greeks and Romans to signal important information.
What is a tuba?
300
THis type of literature is very serious and talks about a heroic character who goes through a perilous journey to help save people or do an ultimate good.
What is an Epic?
300
These groups in ancient Greece and Rome were fairly large, averaging roughly six people.
What is a family?
300
This country was the location for the film "The Lizzie McGuire Movie."
Where is Italy?
400
The teaching of music was considered vital knowledge for any elite to acquire.
What are educational purposes?
400
This woodwind instrument is often tilted to the side of a musician's head and produces high-pitched sounds.
What is a flute/panpipe?
400
This type of literature focuses on human suffering and is meant to evoke all types of emotions from an audience.
What is a Tragedy?
400
These type of duels or battles would take place in the streets and would draw crowds of spectators to see who could show off their talents most.
What are musical duels?
400
This city is the capital of Greece.
Where is Athens?
500
Hundreds of trumpets would play as spectators watched gladiators fight or chariots race around the Colosseum.
What are festive/game purposes?
500
The Roman version of this instrument had 3 strings and was the true forerunner to what we now call a guitar.
What is a lute?
500
In this type of literature, a manly knight goes off on an adventure, fighting evil in order to save a princess and to live happily with her forever.
What is Romance?
500
The average age of one of these in ancient Greece and Rome was 35.
What is a person?
500
President Prokopis Pavlopoulos is currently a prominent figure in Greece's government, which is categorized as one of these.