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Geography
Crete
Troy
General Greece
Mostly Games
100
The Sea that surrounds most of Greece.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
100
Another name for the Cretan civilization.
What is Crete?
100
The name of the beautiful wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta.
What is Helen?
100
An independent city—and sometimes its surrounding land—which has its own government, completely separate from nearby countries.
What is a city-state?
100
The greatest Oracle in all of Greece was located here.
What is Delphi?
200
The sea in between Greece and present-day Turkey.
What is the Aegean Sea?
200
The chief city in Crete.
What is Knossos?
200
The son of the king of Troy who carried off Helen.
Who is Paris?
200
This geographical feature kept Greek communities separate from one another and helped make them very independent.
What are mountains?
200
The location of the Olympic Games.
What was Olympia?
300
The largest island in the Aegean.
What is Crete?
300
According to legend, this powerful Greek god was born on Crete.
Who is Zeus?
300
The amount of time the Greeks besieged Troy.
What is ten years?
300
Two things that all Greeks had in common wherever they lived.
What are their language, their belief in the same gods, and their great national games.
300
This group of people was excluded from the Olympic games.
What are women?
400
Named after a sea, the early Mediterranean civilization is sometimes given this general name.
What is Aegean?
400
The name of the man who killed the Minotaur inside the labyrinth.
What is Theseus?
400
The Greek hero who killed Hector.
Who was Achilles?
400
The mountain that the Greeks believed was the center of the world.
What is Mt. Olympus?
400
This event included throwing the discus, throwing the spear, running, jumping, and wrestling.
What was the pentathlon?
500
The name of the civilization that spread on the Greek mainland.
What is the Mycenaean civilization?
500
The approximate "Golden Age" of Crete was around this date.
What is 1500 BC?
500
This was discovered by Henry Schliemann in 1876.
What is Troy?
500
The name the Greeks called themselves.
What are Hellenes?
500
The prize awarded to winners of the Olympic games.
What was a wreath of olive?