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Greece's Geography was mostly made up of what landforms?

Islands and Mountains

100

Greece has a monotheistic or polytheistic religion?

Polytheistic

100
The earliest city-state in ancient greek history was which city?

Mycenae

100

The series of games created to honor the god Zeus and is still practiced in the modern day.

The Olympics

100

The river located in Egypt that is the longest in the world and the Egyptians needed to survive.

The Nile

200

What types of plants did they have to grow and what types of animals did they have to raise in Greece?

Olives and Grapes, Sheep and Goats

200

The king of the gods who ruled the sky and storms.

Zeus

200

What two city-states had a heated rivalry that boiled over into an all out war?

Sparta and Athens

200

The famous greek poet who wrote two of the most important stories in history: the Iliad and the Odyssey

Homer

200

The title for a king of Egypt, someone who was considered to be a living god

Pharaoh

300

The massive empire to the east of Greece.

Persia

300

Kronos, the father of Zeus, was technically not called a god but was actually the king of a different group of immortals called what?

Titans

300
What were the names of some of the kings of Persia?
Darius, Cyrus, Xerxes
300

What type of government did Athens have?

Direct Democracy

300

The name for the written language in ancient Mesopotamia, translated to wedge-writing

Cuneiform
400

The city-states of ancient greece became the strongest and wealthiest by mastering what part of their geography?

Mastering sailing, having a superior navy, ect.
400

What did the Romans do when they took the greek religion as their own?

changed their names
400

The name of the king from Macedonia, who was taught by Aristotle, and after conquering Greece went on to never be defeated in battle.

Alexander the Great

400

Greece was famous for its ideas on philosophy, who were some of the most famous philosophers in ancient Greece?

Socrates, Plato, Aristotle

400

The main character from the earliest story found in history, he was believed to be the god-king of Mesopotamia.

Gilgamesh

500

Other than Mycenae, what other Greek city-states were there?

Athens, Sparta, Corinth, Thebes

500

Name the big 12 olympian gods.

Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Hera, Hestia, Demeter, Ares, Hephaestus, Apollo, Artemis, Athena, Hermes

500

What was the name of the war between Greece and Sparta?

Peloponnesian War

500

Who was one of the ancient greeks who helped revolutionize math and science?

Pythagoras, Archimedes.

500

What were the first four areas that early humans migrated to.

Mesopotamia (Fertile Crescent), Egypt, China, India