Geography &
Mythology
Mythology
Name three of the main 12 Greek gods or goddesses.
What is (Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Hermes, Hestia/Dionysus)?
The city-state known as the birthplace of democracy.
What is Athens?
The two competitors in the Persian Wars.
What are Greece and Persia?
The city-state that led the Delian League in the Peloponnesian Wars.
What is Athens?
The philosopher who tutored Alexander the Great.
Who is Aristotle?
The Greek god of the sea.
Who is Poseidon?
The role of Spartan males from early childhood to adulthood.
What is soldiers?
The victor of the Persian Wars.
The city-state that led the Peloponnesian League.
What is Sparta?
The role/occupation of Herodotus and Thucydides.
What is historians?
This person conquered most of Greece
Who is Phillip II?
The form of government most closely associated with Sparta.
What is oligarchy?
Three famous battles in the Persian Wars.
What are the battles of Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis, Plataea?
The Athenian leader associated with the Golden Age of Athens.
Who is Pericles?
The ancient Greek individual who made significant contributions in the field of medicine.
Hint: Doctors take an oath named after him.
Who is Hippocrates?
How the Greeks handled their overpopulation and need for more arable (farmable) land.
What is colonization?
What you had to be to participate in Athenian democracy/government.
What is a free male?
The leader of Persia during the first Persian invasion.
Who is Darius I?
The side that won the Peloponnesian Wars.
What is Sparta/the Peloponnesian League?
What Aeschylus and Sophocles both created.
What are plays?
The landforms on which Ancient Greece was located.
The two tyrants of Athens
Who are Draco and Solon?
The ruler of the Persian empire during the Second Persian Invasion.
Who is Xerxes I?
What is general/strategos?
The philosopher who taught to question authority and was put to death for corrupting the youth.
Who is Socrates?