HSC Ancient History

Pompeii & Herculaneum

100

I am a large open space reserved for exercise and sport.

What is the Palaestra?

200

I look after the day to day running of the town, supervising public works, markets. water and sanitation.

Who were the Aediles?

300

I was an eyewitness of the eruption of Mt Vesuvius and wrote letters to Tacitus describing the eruption

Who was Pliny the Younger? 

400

I am one of the oldest and most important buildings in Pompeii and was used as law courts.

What is the Basilica?

500

Between 1924 - 1961, I used a stratigraphic method to excavate Pompeii. I uncovered the walls of the city and worked at fully excavating the Villa of Mysteries?

Who was Amedeo Maiuri?

Sparta

100

I was responsible for all the agricultural and household work in Sparta.

Who were the helots?

200

I was a council of 28 men over the age of 60 who advised the kings.

What was the Gerousia?

300

I stand for 'good order' aka 'good government' 

What was eunomia? 

400

I wrote the most detailed works on Lycurgus? 

Who was Plutarch? 

500

What was the Greek name for the most popular shape of pottery used in Lakonia?

What were the kylikes? (kylix cups) 

Xerxes

100

I am the regions by which the Persian empire was separated into for better administration.

What were the satrapies? 

200

I am considered the first document on human rights 

The Cyrus cylinder 

300

I am the the mother of Xerxes

Who was Atossa?  

400

I am the Spartan king that supposedly assisted in determining Xerxes being chosen as Darius' successor

Who was Demaratus? 

500

I am the 3 historians whose articles are in the back of our Xerxes booklet (surnames only) 

Bridges
Granger
Stoneman 

Greek World

100

I was the famous king who died with the 300 Spartans at the Battle of Thermopylae? 

Who was Leonidas?

200

I was one of the ten strategoi that convinced the Athenians to confront the Persians at Marathon and not wait in Athens for them to arrive

Who was Miltiades? 

300

My aims were to liberate and maintain freedom of Greek city states against the Persians, gain power for Athens and compensate Athens for losses suffered during the Persian Was.

What was the Delian League? 

400

I was a famous sea battle in 479BC in which the Hellenic Fleet destroyed the Persian fleet by making a surprise attack

What was the Battle of Mycale

500

We were the lowest class of the Athenian citizens who made up about three quarters of the population. In the Persian Wars we made served as the upper row of oarmen.

Who were the thetes?

Random (e.g. myths and year 11 content)

100

I was the prettiest woman in Ancient Greece, whose kidnapping led to the Trojan War 

Helen (of Sparta/of Troy). 

200

We are the brothers from the founding myth of Rome. 

Romulus and Remus. 

300

I am the tomb of a married couple in Deir El Medina

Who were Kha & Meryt?

400

I am the first ever actor to speak a solo line (not the chorus) 

Who was Thespis? 

500

I am 3 of the excuses Myrhhine used to delay sleeping with Kinesias in Lysistrata. 

- Not in front of the baby
- Need a pillow
- Need a mattress
- Need perfume