| The Golden Age | ||
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What was the name of this temple and what big rock was it built on? |
The Parthenon and it rest on the Acropolis. |
| #2 | Name the two Persian kings who invaded Greece two seperate times circa 490 and 480 B.C. |
Xerxes in 480 B.C. and Darius in 490 B.C.
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| #3 | Who took governing authority away from the rich aristocracy and created an Assembly? |
Cleisthenes
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| #4 | Name Five Greek City States but do not include Sparta or Athens! |
Thessaly, Ithaca, Corinth, Delphi, Megra, Thebes, Attica.
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| #5 | Who was a relative of the great democrat Cleisthenes and list four of his policies he established during his 30-year rule over Athens circa460 B.C. |
Pericles and he introduced: pay for officials all MEN could hold office patron of the arts built many public buildings supported writers expanded Athens power by conquering others
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| SPARTA! | ||
| #1 | What did King Leonidas say to Xerxes after the Persian demanded he surrender his weapons?
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Molon Labe! ...Come and Take Them!
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| #2 | What was the name of the narrow pass defended by 300 Spartans in 480 B.C. against 300,000 Persian invaders?
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Thermopylae
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| #3 | Place Sparta on the map using the arrow magnet...closest team wins the points! |
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| #4 | Why did Sparta develop a military economy and name it's three levels of society.
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Landlocked with no port...
Free Men of the ruling class helots or slaves neighboring free people
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| #5 |
Name three key parts of Spartan government. |
Two Kings 30-member Council Ephors were 5 officials elected to one-year terms
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| Athens | ||
| #1 | What part of the __________ Peninsula is Athens located on?____________!
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Balkan Attica! |
| #2 | Who divided the Athenians based on wealth instead of birth...and making more money allowed you to rise up the social class ladder.
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Solon.
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| #3 | What three key reforms did _________________________ initiate to bring democracy to people for the first time in any city-state? |
Cleisethenes.
All free MEN over 18 (citizens)could vote. Wealth did not matter in having the right to vote A new Council was created of 500 citizens chosen by citizens
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| #4 |
Bet and give the secret amount on a paper to Trebek! Your question under the picture....
What did Athenians and all Greeks call themselves in Ancient Times based on the mythology that they all had a common ancestor? |
Hellenes after Hellen the original Greek!
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| #5 | What kind of democracy did Athens have? How is it different from the USA's?
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A direct democracy where any male over 18 could join the government and make decisions and voted only for themselves in Councils.
The USA has a representative democracy...we vote for a person who represents 250,000 Americans with their vote in Congress.
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| Early Greece | ||
| #1 | What are the Cyclades and how did it's inhabitants survive from 3000 to 2000 B.C.?
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Circa 200 Islands in the Aegean Sea and people in the cited dates lived from fishing or trading.
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| #2 | What culture had it's origins on a large island called:_________________________ south-southeast of Pelopennesus?
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Minoan on Crete. |
| #3 | Name three important innovations, (or culturally borrowed from Sumer/Ur?), by the people who built the palace for their civilization at Knossos circa 1450 B.C.?
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Minoans "created"... Bronze Decimal system for math Writing with pictographs counting systems with base 10 math clay tablets for writing unique non-Greek language
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| #4 | Who ruled Crete after the great fire of 1450 B.C. destroyed Knossos?
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Myceneans.
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| #5 | Who wrote the history of the _____________ _______ in two epics called the Iliad and the ________________. The first has Achilles as the hero and the second has a hero___________________, who is so smart he can't find his way home for ten years after winning the war by using the_______________ ___________ trick! |
Trojan War Odyssey Odysseus Woodon Horse or Trojan Horse
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| Philosophy/Mythology | ||
| #1 | Correctly Idendify the three philosophers from Athens from this acronym that correctly orders them chronologically.... S P A Which one established ...THE ACADEMY? (Not Ms Wilfort's Academy Academy)
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Socrates Plato Aristotol Plato...and he established The Academy of Athens |
| #2 | Name Seven Goddesses from Greek Mythology not counting Athena! |
Amphitrite - Greek Goddess of the sea and consort of the God Poseidon. Aphrodite - Olympian Goddess of love and beauty. She is certainly the most popular Deity of this Greek Goddess list. Artemis - The Greek Goddess of the hunt, nature and birth. Asteria - Goddess of the stars and the last immortal to live with man Atalanta - A competitive warrior Goddess, adventure and amazing runner. She was turned into a lion by Aphrodite. Demeter. She is one of the lesser known deities in the Greek Goddess list. Demeter - Goddess of the harvest and is most notably linked to the growing, preserving and harvesting of grain. Mother of Persephone. Dike - She was the Greek Goddess of moral justice. Eos - The beautiful Goddess of the dawn who brings the hope of a brand new day. Eris - Goddess of strife, discord, contention and rivalry. Eirenne - The Greek Goddess who symbolized peace. Hebe - Goddess of youth. She served nectar to the Gods. Hecate - Goddess of the wild places, childbirth and the crossroads. She is associated with magic and witchcraft. Hemera - Primordial Goddess of daylight. Hera - Queen of the Olympian Goddesses and Goddess of marriage Hestia - One of the original Olympians, she gave up her throne to become Goddess of the hearth and home. Hygieia - Goddess of health, cleanliness and sanitation. Gaia - Ancient Earth Mother Goddess. Iris - The Greek Goddess of the rainbow and servant to the Gods Leto - Titan Goddess and mother of Apollo and Artemis Maia - Spring Goddess and the eldest and most beautiful of Atlas's seven daughters who made up the Pleiades. Mnemosyne - The personification of memory in Greek mythology. She was also the mother of the Muses. Metis - Titan Goddess of wisdom and prudence. According to Myth Zeus swallowed the pregnant Metis whole and later gave birth to his daughter Athena from his head. Nike - The Greek Goddess of victory. Nyx - Ancient Goddess of darkness and night time Persephone - The Maiden Goddess and Queen of the Underworld. Phoebe - Described as bright and golden crowned, she was said to be a moon Goddess. Rhea - An Earth Goddess, responsible for the fertility of the soil, women and motherhood. She took over many of these roles from her mother Gaia. Selene - This Goddess was the Titan personification of the moon itself, unlike the later moon Goddesses Theia - Ancient Goddess of sight and the bright sky. She was mother Helios, Selene and Eos. Her name itself means Goddess. Themis - Greek Goddess of divine justice, order and customs. She also had the gift of prophecy as she was responsible for the Oracle of Delphi before it was passed onto Apollo |
| #3 | Who said:"An unexamined life is not worth living?" and wound up swallowing poisonous_____________,(as ordered by a judgement against him),to commit suicide because he was annoying the leaders of Athens? He could have walked away but said he had to follow all laws...even if they were unfair. |
Hemlock Socrates
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| #4 | Both Aristotle and Plato believed the best life was:_________________________________________________________________.
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...spent in search of knowledge and truth.
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| #5 | ______________________wrote tragedies in Greece's Golden Age; the writer of comedies was ______________________________.
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Sophocles and Aristophones
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| Final Question | |
Use the Ancient Greek Alphabet to write an answer to the questions.... What symbol was on Spartan Shields? What three letters would be in this college Fraternities AXP? BYX?
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Lambda Alpha Chi Ro Beta Upsilon Chi |
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DAILY DOUBLE...CAPTAIN of Each team writes down how much they will bet from earned points. Right answer earns the points. Team that picked this panel has first try...if they miss Trebek must allow other team to try without revealing the answer until second team goes if the first misses...Good luck!
