Mythology
Athens+Sparta
Life and Geography
War
More War
100

King of the gods. Rules Mount Olympus. 

Zeus

100

Who is the patron god or goddess  of Athens

Athena

100

Give one way that the Greeks might honor or pay tribute to the gods/goddesses

Statue, Temple, Animal Sacrifice, Etc

100

What were the two groups that fought during the Peloponnesian war?

Delian League and Peloponnesian League

100

The name of the Spartan king that led the Greeks at Thermopylae against the Persians

Leonidas

200

What is the name of this hero?

Hercules

200

Which group won the Peloponnesian War? (the league, not the city-state leading it.)

Peloponnesian League

200

The Greek word for city-state

Polis
200

What is the name of the battle from the first Persian invasion of Greece that we remember today by running 26.2 miles.

Battle of Marathon

200

What was the name of the man that conquered Greece after the Peloponnesian War

Phillip II (Alexander's Father)

300

What is the name of this Greek warrior? He is part immortal and fought in the Trojan Wars?

Achilles

300

What was military strength of Sparta? What was the military strength for Athens?

Athens: Navy

Sparta: Army

300

What is the name of the peninsula that Sparta is located

Peloponnesus 

300

Why was Alexander's empire split up into multiple kingdoms after his death?

He did not have an heir.

300

What was Sparta not able to siege and starve the city of Athens?

The Athenians had built a wall to the sea, allowing them to resupply the city for years.

400

The Greek god of War

Ares

400

Which city-state had a 4 mile wall to the sea to prevent a siege during the Peloponnesian War?

Athens

400

What is the name of the sea between mainland Greece and Ionia

Aegean Sea

400

How were the Persians able to surround the Greeks at Thermopylae

A Greek betrayed his fellow Greeks and showed the Persians a way around the Greek army.

400

Why did Alexander stop conquering in the east?

His men told him that they would not fight any longer.

500

Queen of Olympus. Mother of Hercules in the movie, but not in Greek mythology.

Hera

500

At what age did Spartan boys begin their military training?

7

500

What is Mr. Ward's favorite dinosaur

Velociraptor

500

What was the name of the Persian king that first invaded Greece to punish them for helping the Ionians

Darius I (Darius The Great)

500

What was the name of the man (or dynasty) that took control of Egypt after Alexander's death? Cleopatra's ancestor.

Ptolemy (Ptolemaic Dynasty)