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Athens & Sparta
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100
Greece is surrounded on three sides by water. What is this called?
What is a peninsula?
100
This form of government started in Athens about 500 B.C.
What is democracy?
100
This is what we call the made-up stories about the Greek gods.
What is myth?
100
This was the busy marketplace in the center of Athens.
What is the agora?
100
He believed you could learn just by asking questions.
Who is Socrates?
200
Ancient Greeks mostly grew these four crops.
What is barley, wheat, olives, and grapes?
200
Sparta had this form of government.
What is oligarchy?
200
Greek gods were like humans except they had this.
What is supernatural powers?
200
This was a huge temple constructed on the Acropolis .
What is the Parthenon?
200
The entire study of geometry was based on his writings.
Who is Euclid?
300
This word best describes the coast of Greece.
What is rugged.
300
The practice of leaving baby boys out in the countryside to die if the city leaders did not think he would be strong enough was practiced here.
What is Sparta?
300
This mythical Greek king asked the god Bacchus to turn everything he touched to gold.
Who is Midas?
300
Greeks believed that this group of nine goddesses were in charge of the arts.
What are the Muses?
300
He came up with an important theorem about triangles.
Who is Pythagoras?
400
The interior of Greece has this geographical feature.
What are mountains?
400
In this city-state all men 18 and older would vote in the Assembly.
What is Athens?
400
In these ways Greek gods were like humans.
What are in their behavior and appearance?
400
This major modern athletic event has its origins in ancient Greece.
What is the Olympic Games?
400
He is called the father of Medicine.
Who is Hippocrates?
500
Greece's terrain encouraged the growth of these self-governing communities.
What are city-states?
500
Women of this city-state would tell their husbands and sons to return from battle "with you shield or on it."
What is Sparta
500
The temple of Athena was located on this hill in Athens.
What is the Acropolis?
500
Greek society spread during the Helenistic period under this ruler.
Who is Alexander the Great?
500
He is called the father of History.
Who is Herodotus?