Greeks

Question 1

Where do the Greek gods live?

Answer 1

Mnt. Olympus

Question 2

Who are the Titans?

Answer 2

The gods before the Olympians

Question 3

What god is the king of the Olympians?

Answer 3

Zeus

Question 4

Who was the god of sky and lightning?

Answer 4

Zeus

Question 5

How did Zeus gain power?

Answer 5

Overthrew father (Cronos)

Question 6

Who was Hercules?

Answer 6

He was one of Zeus’ demi-god sons

Question 7

Who is Zeus’ wife?

Answer 7

Hera

Question 8

What is Hera the goddess of?

Answer 8

Marrige, women, childbirth, heirs, kings, empires

Question 9

Who is the god of the underworld?

Answer 9

Hades

Question 10

How is Hades related to Zeus?

Answer 10

He is his brother

Question 11

What is the river of sticks?

Answer 11

The line between the underworld and heaven

Question 12

Who is the god of the sea, rivers, floods, droughts ect…?

Answer 12

Poseidon

Question 13

How is Poseidon related to Zeus?

Answer 13

He is his brother

Question 14

Who is Demeter?

Answer 14

She is the goddess of grain, agriculture, and the harvest

Question 15

How is Demeter related to Zeus?

Answer 15

She is his sister

Question 16

What is Aphrodite the god of?

Answer 16

Love and beauty

Question 17

Who is Aphrodite the daughter of?

Answer 17

Uranus

Question 18

What is Aphrodite one of, meaning she techniclly isnt an Olympian?

Answer 18

She is one of the deitics

Question 19

What is Hestia the god of?

Answer 19

She is the goddess of hearth

Question 20

How is Hestia related to Zeus?

Answer 20

She is his sister

Question 21

What is Ares the god of?

Answer 21

War and justice

Question 22

T or F? Is Ares the son of Zeus and Hera?

Answer 22

TRUE

Question 23

Who was the only god considered “ugly’?

Answer 23

Hephaestus

Question 24

What god never told a lie?

Answer 24

Apollo

Question 25

What god is asociated with the moon?

Answer 25

Artimis

Question 26

Who is the messenger of the gods?

Answer 26

Hermes

Question 27

When and where did the ancient Greek culture first emerge?

Answer 27

Around 1600 B.C in Mycenae

Question 28

How many peninsulas make up much of the Greek landmasses?

Answer 28

2

Question 29

What 3 seas did Greeks use to gain contact with the outside world?

Answer 29

Aegean Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the Black Sea

Question 30

What was the name of the first Greek state?

Answer 30

Mycenae

Question 31

At what time did the Mycenaean civilization reach its height?

Answer 31

Between 1400 b.c. and 1200 b.c.

Question 32

When the Mycenaean cilvilization was at its height in the beginning of the Greeks, what type of government was in place?

Answer 32

Monarchy

Question 33

What kind of people were the Myceneans?

Answer 33

They were warrior people, and prided themselves on heroic deeds

Question 34

According to Homer, what happened with the Mycenaeans at Troy?

Answer 34

They "sacked" or attacked troy around 1250 B.C

Question 35

What led to the fall of Mycenaean civilization?

Answer 35

States fighting, major widespread earthquakes, Gree-speaking invaders 1100 B.C.

Question 36

Why was the period after the fall of the Mycenaean civilzation called the "Dark Age"?

Answer 36

It was a time when the population declined and food production dropped.

Question 37

What system of writing did the Greeks adopt to give them a new writing system?

Answer 37

The Phonecian Alphabet

Question 38

When did Homer appear?

Answer 38

During the Dark Age

Question 39

What kind of poems did Homer write?

Answer 39

Epic poems

Question 40

What were the 2 first great epic poems in Greece?

Answer 40

Iliad and the Odessy

Question 41

How is arete earned?

Answer 41

Won in struggle or contest

Question 42

What became the central focus of Greek life?

Answer 42

The Polis

Question 43

What is a Polis?

Answer 43

A Greek City-State

Question 44

Where was the centural meeting place in a police?

Answer 44

Usually a hill. An acropolis was at the top of the hill.

Question 45

What was the acropolis used for?

Answer 45

Used for refuge during an attack, or sometimes a religious center

Question 46

What is the place below the acropolis?

Answer 46

An agora, or an open area where people could be assembled, or be used as a market.

Question 47

By the fifth century B.C what was the population of Athens?

Answer 47

more than 300,000

Question 48

What was the military system based on?

Answer 48

Hopilites

Question 49

What are hopilites?

Answer 49

Heavily armed foot soldiers

Question 50

What is a phlanax?

Answer 50

battle as a unit, marching shoulder to shoulder in a rectangular formation

Question 51

What did Aristarchus of Samos do?

Answer 51

He created the theory that the sun is at the center of the universe and the earth rotates around it

Question 52

What did eratosthenes do?

Answer 52

He determined the earth was round, and calculated its circumference

Question 53

What did Euclid do?

Answer 53

He wrote a geometry textbook

Question 54

What did Archimedes of Syracuse do?

Answer 54

He established the value of pi, invented the "archimedes screw"

Question 55

What did epicurus do?

Answer 55

Founder of Epicureanism

Question 56

What is Epicureanism?

Answer 56

The pursuit of happiness for yourself, having the mindset that happiness is the chief goal in life

Question 57

When was the time of Archaic Greece?

Answer 57

1650 B.C-700 B.C