Ancient Greece Jeopardy

Ancient Greece Vocab

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A traditional story about the gods and that aren't exactly true

Myth

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This is a Polis

What is a city state?

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What is the difference between an Oligarchy and a Democracy?

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Most city-states controlled between 50 and 500 square miles of territory. They were often home to fewer than 10,000 residents. At the agora, or marketplace, or on a fortified hillt called an citizens gathered to discuss city government.

Acropolis

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This was a battle strategy where Greek warriors would crouch together to create a wall using their shields. It was eventually adopted by the Romans. 

What is a Phalanx?

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The Greeks wrote these two types of drama

Comedy and Tragedy. 

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The type of democracy where a person is chosen or appointed to act or speak for another or others (found in Athens) 

Representative Democracy

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These were enslaved persons captured by Spartans

Helots

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Cruel and oppressive government or rule

Tyranny 

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A method of questioning everything.

Socratic Method

Ancient Greek Cities + Persian Wars

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Which of the main city states in Ancient Greece focuses more on War 

Sparta

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In Greek Mythology, the famous Oracle of Delphi was supposedly freed from being kept prisoner by an evil serpent dragon by which Greek God?

What is Apollo?

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What are three differences between Athens and Sparta?

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The capital of Crete?

What is Knossos

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A lover of, or searcher for, wisdom or knowledge; person who regulates his or her life by the light of reason

What is a philosopher?

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What was ONE EFFECT of the Persian Wars? 

With the Persian threat ended, all the Greek city-states felt a new sense of confidence and freedom. 

 During the 470s, Athens emerged as the leader of the Delian League, which had grown to some 200 city-states. Soon thereafter, Athens began to use its power to control the other league members.

The prestige of victory over the Persians and the wealth of the Athenian empire set the stage for a dazzling burst of creativity in Athens. The city was entering its brief golden age.

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What was the naval battle called during the Persian Wars in which the Athenians defeated the Persians?

Battle of Salamis? 

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Which is the only battle the Persian Empire won during the Persian Wars....when they defeated the 300 Spartan soldiers led by King Leonidas?

Battle of Thermopylae

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An Athenian messenger ran 26 miles back to Athens to report the victory over the Persians at the Battle of ______ and died from exhaustion

What is Marathon?

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**DAILY DOUBLE**

Name this Greek and the city state he led

Who is Pericles and he led Athens?

Ancient Greece Geography

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This is how you would describe the landscape of Greece

What is very mountainous with valleys and some rivers?

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Where is the home of the Gods

Mt. Olympus

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This is the body of water between Greece and Turkey

What is the Aegean Sea?

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What is the Agora?

Public space in Ancient Greece

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This is the name given to the peninsula which extends off the bottom part of Greece

a) Argos
b) Corinth
c) Peloponnesus
d) Athens
e) Megara

What is the c) Peloponnesian Peninsula

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A citadel or fortified part of an ancient Greek city, typically built on a hill.

What is the Acropolis?

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Identify the region of Turkey where the Greeks revolted against the Persians, beginning the Persian Wars

What is Ionia?

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What ancient civilization is represented by these ruins/photos

What is the Minoans?

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Identify this body of water

What is the Ionian Sea?

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What modern country was the center of the Persian Empire?

What is Iran?

Ancient Greece Achievements

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Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?

Homer

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The Parthenon was dedicated to this Greek Goddess

Athena

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Long narrative or story describing a hero's adventures

What is an epic?

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This was the term used to describe a tragic flaw in a god or hero from Greek Mythology.

What is Hubris?

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What material is the Parthenon made out of?

Marble

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What was Plato's most famous work, in which he wrote that in his ideal society, all citizens would fall naturally into three groups: farmers and artisans, warriors, and the ruling class. The person with the greatest insight and intellect from the ruling class would be chosen philosopher-king.

The Republic.

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These are the 3 types of Columns the greeks were known for inventing DAILY DOUBLE 

What is Doric Ionic Corinthian?

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These are the three periods that Ancient Greece could be divided up into

What is Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic

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Phidias and other sculptors during this golden age aimed to create figures that were graceful, strong, and perfectly formed. Their faces showed neither joy nor anger, only serenity. Greek sculptors also tried to capture the grace of the idealized human body in motion. They wanted to portray ideal beauty, not realism. Their values of harmony, order, balance, and became known as _____________

Classical Art

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This philosopher, who lived from 470–399 BC, encouraged students to question their beliefs, developing a question-answer approach that is used in law schools today. 

Who is Socrates?

Ancient Greece Timeline

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True or False the Minoan Civilization existed around the same time as the earliest Chinese and Indian Societies. (Shang Dynasty and Indus River Valley)

True

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Where was the Minoan civilization found?

On the island of Crete

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Alexander the Great's empire included all of the following areas except?

A. India

B. Persia

C. China

D. Egypt

China

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Who was the Persian King during Alexander the Great's conquest?

Darius III

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Which of the following reflects the chronological order in which these three peoples dominated Greece?

Mycenaians, Dorians, Macedonians. 

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What happened when Alexander marched in Egpyt?

He was crowned Pharoah and welcomed as a liberator?

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In what period of Greek History did they temporarily lose the art of writing between 1150 and 750 BC?

Dorian Age

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As a result of Alexander’s policies, a vibrant new culture emerged. Greek culture blended with Egyptian, Persian, and Indian influences. This blending became known as________ culture.

Koine, the popular spoken language used in the cities,  was the direct result of cultural blending. The word koine came from the Greek word for “common.” The language was a dialect of Greek. This language enabled educated people and traders from diverse backgrounds to communicate in cities throughout the empire. 

Hellenistic Culture

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Historical Context: When Pericles gave his Funeral Oration? What specific event was happening at the time? 

Peloponnesian War (Athens vs. Sparta)