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Almost 80% of Greece is covered with what?
a. farmland
b. forests
c.mountains
c.mountains
The basic unit of government in Greece was the
a. city-state
b. county
c. nation
d. township
a. city-state
Greeks that traded ______ for foreign items they needed
a. animal hides
b. grain
c. olive oil
c. olive oil
The government of Athens was an example of ___________ democracy
a. aristocratic
b. direct
c. indirect
d. tyrannical
b. direct
One valuable n
natural resource that Greece had was?
a. diamonds
b. gold
c. silver
d. stone
d. stone
The center of city life in Greece was the
a. agora
b. isthmus
c. Parthenon
d. peninsula
a. agora
_______ was the first Greek civilization
a. Athens
b. Mycenae
c. Phoenicia
d. Sparta
b. Mycenae
a. adult helots
b. adult women
c. free adult men
d. free elderly men
c. free adult men
The goddess who protected Athens was?
a. Aphrodite
b. Athena
c. Demeter
d. Hera
b. Athena
A leader who made political political reforms in Athens was
a. Homer
b. Plutarch
c. Solon
d. Zeus
c. Solon
_____ often were the main characters of Greek myth?
a. animals and people
b. Gods and animals
c. Gods and Goddesses
c. Gods and Goddesses
The distance between Marathon and Athens is about _______ miles
a. 5
b. 15
c. 25
d. 50
c. 25
The Iliad is about the
a. tortoise and the hare
b. journey that Odysseus
c. attack on Troy by the Greeks
d. unjust suffering of Prometheus
c. attack on Troy by the Greeks
Boys in Athens got an education to prepare them to become
a. good citizens
b. kind fathers
c. military leaders
d. smart businessmen
a. good citizens
The Olympics were named for _______.
a. the leader of the Gods
b. the main temple in Athen
c. the home of the Gods
d. a nearby sea
c. the home of the Gods
The Persian wars started when the Persians conquered _____
a. Anatolia
b. Athens
c. Sparta
d. Thermopylae
a. Anatolia
Many Greek fables were composed by
a. Achilles
b. Aesop
c. Homer
d. Zeus
b. Aesop
The lowest group in Spartan society was made up of
a. boys
b. helots
c. soldiers
d. women
b. helots
The original purpose of an acropolis was to ______.
a. worship the Gods
b. house the kings
c. house common people
d. protect the city
d. protect the city
The Greek ships in the battle at Thermopylae were ______ than those of the Persians
a. larger
b. more mobile
c. more numerous
d. slower
b. more mobile