Name That City State
200: Name the city-state that held games every four years under a Pan-Hellenic truce.
Olympia
200: Name the person who was the king of Persia who sought to avenge his father’s loss and fought the Greeks at Thermopylae.
XERXES
200: How many Spartans fought and sacrificed themselves for the rest of Greece at the Battle of Thermopylae?
300
200: What is the name of the 13-year training program of Spartan youth?
AGOGE
200: What island was the Minoan civilization located on?
CRETE
400: Name the city where boys only met their fathers at age 5.
Sparta
400: Name the person who was the leader of the Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae.
LEONIDAS
400: What naval battle led to the end of the Persian Wars?
BATTLE OF SALAMIS
400: What council did the men of Sparta join at the age of 30?
APELLA
400: What caused the destruction of the Minoan civilization?
VOLCANO AND TSUNAMI
600: Name the city-state that had a social structure that consisted of Citizens, Metics, and Slaves.
ATHENS
600: Name the person who was credited with writing down the first-ever written legal system of the Athenian government.
DRACO
600: Who was the leader/general of the Athenians at the Battle of Marathon?
MILTIADES
600: What was the name of the “general assembly” of the Greeks that gave all free Greeks the chance to have a say in government.
ECCLESIA
600: What type of paintings were the Minoans best known for?
FRESCOES
800: Name the wealthiest commercial city-state in Greece. It got the title because it was in between the Attica Peninsula and the Peloponnesus.
Corinth
800:Name the former Athenian tyrant who aided the Persians at the beginning of the Greco-Persian Wars.
HIPPIAS
800: What prophecy did the Battle of Thermopylae fulfill that convince many Greeks city-states to join in the fight against Persia?
A SPARTAN/GREEK KING’S DEATH
800: Describe for me the Legend of how Athens chose their patron god.
ATHENA: OLIVE TREE
POSEIDON: SPLIT A ROCK OPEN AND GAVE SALTWATER AND A HORSE
800: What are the four potential reasons for the disappearance of the Mycenaean civilization?
DROUGHT, SOIL EXHAUSTION, SYSTEM FAILURE, NATURAL DISASTER
1000: Two parts. Name the city-state that established the first colonies of Greece AND name its first and most important colony
Corinth and Syracuse
1000: Name the person who is credited as the father of democracy in Athens. It is because he created the Council of 500 aka the Boule.
CLEISTHENES
1000: What is the formal tactical name given to the strategy that helped the Athenians beat the Persians at the Battle of Marathon?
DOUBLE ENVELOPMENT
1000: Describe for me the full life of a Spartan male. Ages 0, 5, 7, 13, 14-20, 20-30, 60
0: JUDGED, OF NOT GOOD, DEAD 5: MEET DAD FOR FIRST TIME
7:AGOGE 13: WILDERNESS TEST 14-20: EPHEBES
20-30: MARRIED BUT CAN’T LIVE 60: RELEASED FROM SERVICE
1000:How does the myth of the minotaur explain what really happened to the Minoans?
Minotaur stomps = volcano
Science can explain plate tectonics that = volcano