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The oath doctors use to take promising to help their patients to the best of their ability, originated in Greece and is called ___________.
What is the Hippocratic Oath.
100
Define: Democracy
What is a form of government run by the citizens.
100
What are the two "B" words that characterize Greek culture?
What is Balance and Beauty.
100
What geometric formula is a famous Greek formula?
What is the Pathagorum Theorum.
100
T or F in Sparta the word peers, or equals, referred to the citizen-soldiers?
What is T
200
Why is Patmos famous?
What is John wrote Revelations there.
200
Define:Tyrant
What is absolute control of government by an individual.
200
What are the Elgin Marbles? Where are they and why?
What is Part of the marble freeze from the Parthenon taken by lord Elgin and put into the British Museum.
200
What Greek food is most popular in America?
What is the gyros
200
What is Santorini said to be?
What is the lost city of Atlantis.
300
The most significant and long lasting contribution of Alexander the Great to the world culture was what?
What is the spread of Greek culture throughout the Mediterranean world.
300
Define: Oligarchy
What is rule by a group of wealthy people.
300
What did the Greeks consider the center of the known world?
What is Delphi.
300
T or F Greece is a member of the European Community(EC).
What is T
300
What is Meteora.
What is Monestearies in north up on high cliffs.
400
Seventy Schollars were commissioned to translate the Old Testament into Greek. This translation is called ___________.
What is the Septuigent.
400
Define: Ephor
What is one of five overseers in the Spartan government.
400
What period-1400-1600- looked back on and copied the ideas of the Classical Period?
What is the Renaissance.
400
The church that most greeks affeliated with is the _______ _______ Church.
What is Greek Orthadox.
400
According to archaeologists the Minoans were what?
What is a culturally advanced trading people from the island of Crete.
500
The Iliad and the Odyssey are important because they are
What is great works of literature that have inspired later writers and provide insight into Greek life in the 8th century B.C.
500
Define: Ostracizing
What is the Athenian practice of voting public officials into exile.
500
What idea was embedded in the Renaissance and the Classical Period?
What is (Humanism) humans are the most important.
500
Greece has the highest percent of immigrants from where?
What is Albania.
500
What does the archaeological evidence regarding the myths connected with the Minotaur and the Trojan War suggest.
What is myths often have some basis in historical realities.