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100
This is the capital city of Greece today.
What is Athens.
100
This is the Greek word for city-state.
What is polis.
100
This was the structure which honoured the goddess of wisdom and war.
What is the Parthenon.
100
They were the tough ones who would throw weak babies off the sides of mountains.
What are Spartans.
100
She was the one whom Paris 'kidnapped' and the woman who the Trojan War was over.
Who is Helen.
200
This is the water body which is just below Greece.
What is the Mediterranean Sea.
200
This type of government where people have a say is the type that we have today in Canada.
What is democracy.
200
These are 3 foods that the ancient Greeks did NOT enjoy.
What are rice, potatoes, sugar or pasta.
200
She was the Greek goddess of love and beauty.
Who is Aphrodite.
200
He was the brother of Zeus and the Greek god of the underworld.
Who is Hades.
300
Alexander the Great was in fact not Greek by birth but from this powerful country.
What is Macedonia.
300
These are the names of 4 different city-states studied in class.
What are Sparta, Athens, Corinth and Troy.
300
This was the year the ancient Olympics began.
What is 776 BCE.
300
They were two important philosophers in ancient Greece.
Who are Aristotle and Plato.
300
Spartans had less of this than the Athenians did, but gave it up for the good of the state!
What is freedom.
400
It is here, north of Sparta, that the ancient Greek gods would meet.
What is Mount Olympus.
400
This was the worst punishment given to a citizen.
What is exile or banishment from the polis.
400
Homer was the Greek writer of these two famous stories.
What are the Iliad and The Odyssey.
400
These are 2 things that made Alexander the Great so famous.
What are conquering a vast area, allowing the conquered to rule their land, never losing a battle, spreading the Greek way of life, etc.
400
This is the continent in which Greece exists.
What is Europe.
500
This is the proper spelling of the civilization that crumbled in 1100 BCE and gave way for ancient Greece!
What is M-Y-C-E-N-A-E
500
These are the 4 different type of people and their level of citizenship.
What are men could be citizens, women and slaves could never be citizens and foreigners could rarely be citizens.
500
These were the 3 main values which all Spartans lived by.
What are duty, loyalty and obedience.
500
Apollo was the god of 3 of these 4 things!
What are poetry, music, medicine and light.
500
In Greek, the Acropolis is known as this type of rock.
What is Sacred.