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Athens vs. Sparta
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Greekpouri
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The Greek peninsula juts out into the Mediterranean Sea. This feature made farming difficult.
What is rocky soil?
100
As the population grew on the Greek peninsula, these were formed:
What are city-states?
100
Democracy
What is Athens?
100
The main reason for the Peloponnesian War.
What is Athens being suspected of using taxes to pay for beautification of Athens instead of preparing for another invasion?
100
The Parthenon was built using this architectural order.
What is Doric?
200
This is Greece's most important natural resource.
What is water?
200
Colonies were developed by the Greek city-states because:
What is they wanted to find better farming land and other resources like timber. To increase the wealth of their city-states.
200
Type of government found in ancient Sparta.
What is an oligarchy?
200
Socrates was forced to drink poisonous hemlock because of this crime.
What is corruption of young men?
200
This is the supposed date of the first olympic games.
What is 776 BC?
300
Although soil was poor, the Greeks managed to cultivate these three crops.
What are olives, grapes, and figs?
300
This great speaker and general was responsible for building the Parthenon and other buildings on top of the Acropolis.
Who is Pericles?
300
True of False: Athenian men and boys had to serve in the military.
What is false?
300
Being trapped inside the cave looking at shadows was Plato's way of telling us that most people live in:
What is ignorance?
300
Boxers didn't wear gloves back in the ancient games. Instead, they wrapped their hands and wrists with these.
What are leather straps or thongs?
400
Goats were the primary source of milk, not cows. This was probably because:
What is goats are well-suited in hilly, mountainous landscapes?
400
This empire tried to take over all of Greece in 480 B.C.
What is the Persian Empire?
400
Name of the wedding gift a suitor's family had to give to the bride's father.
What is dowry?
400
This guy might've had a couple big cats in cages while he walked with his most famous student, Alexander from Macedonia.
Who is Aristotle?
400
This man is credited with writing "Theogeny" or the creation myths of all the Greek gods.
Who is Hesiod?
500
This natural feature kept people separated and made traveling difficult.
What are mountains?
500
A time of great prosperity for the Greeks. 448-404 BC
What is the Golden Age?
500
Women in Sparta had a lot more freedom than Athenian women because:
What is the men were away tending to war and training?
500
This is the irony of Alexander the Great.
What is he loved Greek culture and spread it throughout the world while the Greeks hated him?
500
These girls were considered to be the mouthpiece of the gods.
What are oracles?