Ancient Greece Culture Facts: Quiz! Trivia
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- 1.What role did the geography around Greece play in its protection and history?
- A.
The mountains created separate city-states. This caused intense rivalries.
- B.
They were very outgoing.
- C.
The mountains allowed people to keep their close family in their own little village.
- 2.What is the greek word for heroism?
- 3.Where did the Minoans live?
- A.
Sicily
- B.
Crete
- C.
Thera
- D.
Troy
- E.
Sparta
- 4.What famous battle occurred during Mycenaean history?
- A.
The crusades
- B.
The Persian War
- C.
The trojan war
- 5.What three groups made up a polis?
- 6.Why did the Greeks leave their home to create colonies?
- A.
Hated being rivals with so many people
- B.
Scared of invasion
- C.
Wanted to be able to have their own religion
- D.
Hated the oligarchy
- E.
Good farmland
- 7.What type of government had 2 kings, 5 ephors, and a consul of elders?
- 8.Who had an Oligarchy?
- 9.Who canceled out all land debt and freed people who were slaved?
- 10.The chief God was:
- A.
Poseidon
- B.
Zeus
- C.
Ares
- D.
Hades
- 11.The God of the Sun was:
- A.
Apollo
- B.
Mercury
- C.
Ares
- D.
Athena
- 12.What theme typically dealt with within Greek tragedy?
- A.
Good and evil
- B.
Rights of individuals
- C.
Nature of divine forces
- D.
Nature of human beings
- E.
All of the above
- 13.Sophocles wrote this famous work:
- 14.What form of government did Plato favor?
- A.
Direct democracy
- B.
Republic democracy
- C.
Republic
- D.
Constitutional democracy
- E.
Senate power
- 15.Alexandria attracted whom?
- A.
Poets
- B.
Writers
- C.
Philosophers
- D.
All of the above
- E.
None of the above
- 16.What did Eratosthenes determine?
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