The Olympics
This is how often the Olympics were/ are held.
What is four years?
These are the three things the Ancient Greeks judged by.
BONUS FOR DOUBLE: These are the three things they lived by.
What are truth, goodness and beauty?
BONUS: What are justice, law and equality?
These are the three regions of Greece.
What are Peloponnesus, Northern Greece and Central Greece?
This is the landform that separated the Greek city states from each other.
What are mountains?
This is the famous Greek leader who led Sparta.
Who is Lycurgus?
True or false: The Greeks vigorously kept track of their records, which is one of the reasons we know about the Olympics.
What is false?
Name the two most famous Greek city states.
What are Athens and Sparta?
These are the staple crops of Greece.
BONUS FOR DOUBLE: Name the place in Greece where the most common crop was most cultivated.
What are corn, wine and oil/ olives?
BONUS: What is Attica?
The Oracle of Delphi celebrates this god.
Who is Apollo?
True or False: The laws of Solon classified citizens into ranks - lawgivers, noblemen, manual workers, then slaves.
What is false?
Solon's laws equalized people and set them free from burdens such as debt or slavery.
This is the god that the Olympics celebrate.
BONUS FOR DOUBLE: This is where they were held.
Who is Zeus?
BONUS: Where is Olympia?
True or false: One of the most famous kings of Greece was Cicero, a great and noble war king.
What is false?
The Greeks had no king(s)
True or false: The soil in Greece was poor and barren, and trees grew few there.
What is true?
These are the two people who, according to legend, "created" the Greek people. (Hint: They had a son named Hellen, and that is why the Greeks are also called the Hellenes)
Who were Deucalion and Pyrrha?
Each Greek was required to attend this in their city states. (Hint: It involves a group of people talking)
What is an Assembly?
This is the name for the set of 5 contests (discus throwing, spear throwing, running, jumping and wrestling) held in the Olympics.
What is the Penthathlon?
This philosopher explained how to know the limit to size/ population in a city state.
Who is Aristotle?
Name the place the Greeks enjoyed going to often.
What is the sea/ water/ ocean?
These are the two sayings inscribed on one of the temples in the Oracle at Delphi. (Hint: Mr. Gunkle talked about them in class!)
What are "know thyself" and "nothing in excess"?
The laws of Greece come mainly from this city state.
What is Athens?
This is the year when the first Olympic games were held.
What is 776 B.C.?
Give a description of how Greeks formed into city states.
Family - Village - Kingdom - City States
These are the three types of trees most often found in Ancient Greece.
What are laurel, oleander and myrtle?
These are the 12 main Greek gods and goddesses. (Hint: they are the 12 "members" of the Ancient Greek Pantheon)
Who are Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Aphrodite, Hephaestus, Hermes, and Hestia/ Dionysus?
This harsh Greek leader dealt out laws so harshly, the punishment for stealing a cabbage was death!
Who was Draco?