Ancient Persia
The founder of the Persian Empire and its first King?
Who was Cyrus the Great?
The name of a landform that has water on three sides.
What is a peninsula?
Ancient Greece was similar to Egypt in that it worshipped many gods. This is known as ————-.
What is polytheism?
This field is concerned with the study of knowledge, seems truths about life, and is based upon questioning everything.
What is philosophy?
This was the form of government in ancient Athens, where all male citizens could vote on issues in their city-state.
Who is a direct democracy?
This construction project was over 1,500 miles long and connected the Persian capital and the Mediterranean Sea.
What was the Royal Road?
True or false. Greece has fertile farmland and can grow almost anything you can eat.
What is false?
Athens, Greece is named after this goddess of wisdom, believed to be born out of the head of Zeus - the father and supreme god.
Who is Athena?
This statement made first by the Greek Hippocrates is required of all medical students in order to become doctors, wherein they promise to act ethically and never do harm to their patients.
What is the Hippocratic Oath?
Sparta had this form of government, where only thirty men over the age of 60 proposed all the laws, sent the city-state to war, and also served as the top judges.
What is an oligarchy?
The name for a provincial governor in the Persian Empire?
What was a satrap?
Name for a political division in Greece that is in control of itself and consists of a city with surrounding land.
What is a city-state?
The gods live on the top of this mountain.
What is Mt. Olympus?
In architecture, these round and tall structures are used to hold up the front or sides of a building and can be found in the front of the White House.
What are columns?
Athens had several hundred people who served as members of this decision-making body found in courtrooms all over the world today.
What is a jury?
This artifact made of baked clay stated the human rights subjects of the Persian Empire could enjoy as well as the empire’s laws.
What is the Cyrus Cylinder?
While Sparta had an impressive army, Athens developed a strong ————- that consisted of many warships and sailors.
What is a navy?
This is the word for a collection of literature about gods, mythical creatures, and origins of a society.
What is mythology?
This worldwide sporting contest, symbolized by 5 interlocking rings, is held every 4 years and originated in Athens, Greece.
What are the Olympics?
This city-state had two kings who also proposed laws on the Gerousia and also were the top judges in the city-state?
What is Sparta?
This last great Persian King led Persia to a major early victory over its greatest foe — Greece.
Who was Xerxes I?
Olives and this fruit used to make wine are the two main food items grown in Greece.
What are grapes?
Christianity is a religion based on the belief in one god, this is known as ...
What is monotheism?
This form of Greek literature involves a hero who is in search of a goal, is forced to take a hard journey and fight many battles, and includes titles like The Iliad and The Odyssey.
What is an epic?
Women were politically and socially just female-slaves in this city-state.
What is Athens?