General
This is the author of many "epic journey" tales, such as the Illiad and The Odyssey.
Who is Homer?
(100 bonus pts: Who are 3 important later authors his work influenced?)
This is the legend of a half-bull, half-man that occupies the legendary labyrinth.
What is the Minotaur?
This is the age of study we have been looking at in our study of Greek history.
What is the Archaic Age?
This is the city fortress in Greek city-states.
What is the acropolis?
These were the fully-armored soldiers and warriors of Sparta.
What are the hoplites?
These are the figures that influenced Homer and represented the pantheon of gods in the form of the nine arts.
Who were the muses?
This was the written language that eventually morphed into Latin, then old English, then modern English.
What is Linear A?
These are ages where Greek culture and history were not as prominent or successful as other ages.
What are the Dark Ages?
This is the "marketplace" within Greek city-states.
What is the agora?
These were the Messanite slaves the Spartans conquered to work their farmlands.
What are the helots?
This is the Greek name for the city-state.
What is a polis?
This is the syllabic script that was lost to history when the Myceneans fell.
What is Linear B?
This is the era that Greek culture and language spread to the known world, in places such as Egypt, former Persia, and the Near East.
What is the Hellenistic Era?
(100 bonus pts: Who is the person responsible for spreading this Greek culture?)
This is the Greek word for Athenian Democracy.
What is Demokratia?
This was the military training program for young Spartan males.
What is the agoge?
This is the strategy the Greeks used to finally defeat the Trojans in The Odyssey.
What is the Trojan Horse?
This was the reason why the Minoans fell.
What is an earthquake?
This is the type of democracy that has decisions made by the people voting themselves.
What is direct democracy?
This is the Greek mathematician responsible for creating the formula to find the measurements of a triangle.
Who is Pythagoras?
This is the belief that people groups should not join together in one political identity.
What is xenophobia?
This is the priestess of Apollo that is commonly consulted by political leaders to foretell the future.
Who is the Oracle at Delphi?
This is the location of the legend of the labyrinth.
What is Knossos, Crete?
This is the act of randomly choosing government officials by drawing lots (gambling).
What is sortition?
This is the act of voting to exile a member of society for a decade to prevent tyranny.
What is ostracism?
This is the belief that a group of people should not get involved in international affairs.
What is isolationism?