Download Ancient Greece Test Review

Ancient Greece Test Review
Answer the following questions in the space provided.
1. Who was the:
a. God of all Gods? ____________
b. Goddess of beauty and love? ____________
c. God of sun? __________
d. Messenger of the gods? __________
e. The wife of Zeus? __________
f. The ruler of the sea? ___________
g. God of the underworld? ____________
h. Goddess of wisdom? _______________
2. Name
a.
b.
c.
d.
the 4 major bodies of water that surround Greece:
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3. Name a Greek hero _______________. What made this person a
hero?
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4. What did the ancient Greeks use stories and myths for?
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5. Who were the two main groups to settle in Greece? How were they
organized?
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6. Explain how City-States were formed:
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7. Why was being located in the mountain range both a positive and
negative in Greece?
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8. What does the word “polis” mean and what is the importance of this
word to those living in it?
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9. What did the “polis” include?
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10. How many people did the average polis include? ________________
11. Who were and were not considered to be citizens?
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12. How were Sparta and Athens different in terms of democracy?
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13. In order to become a citizen in Athens what were the conditions?
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14. Why was exile such a horrible thing to do to someone?
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15. How are the Olympic games announced within the City-States?
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16. Define the word Acropolis including what the two parts of the word
means.
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17. Explain what the Olympic Truce is:
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18. Explain the significance of the Parthenon. Who was it built in honour
of?
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19. Explain how the builder of the columns of the Parthenon have made
them into an optical illusion:
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20. Which Greek City-State was the richest and most powerful?
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21. What are the main activities done in Athens?
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22. What is democracy in Greek? _____________________________
23. Explain how democracy came to be in Athens:
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24. What do Spartan men spend all of their time doing?
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25. Describe what happens to boys when they are born in Sparta? What
if they don’t make the cut?
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26. How are Spartan women different from Athenian women?
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27. List 5 Facts about Sparta:
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28. Explain the difference between the two types of citizens in Sparta:
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29. What were their goals in education?
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30. Who was Helios and how did the Greeks organize their days around
him?
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31. What were houses made of?
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32. List the 4 seasons and what farmers harvested?
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33. List the meals and what Greeks ate:
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34. What is the name of the woman’s room? The man’s room?
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35. Describe the basic clothing that were worn by Greeks:
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36. What were the 5 main events in the Olympics?
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37. What happened in Olympia?
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38. Who were the Olympics in honour of? _______________________
39. What did the winners win?
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40. Why was there a fire lit? ________________________________
Label the following on the Map:
Cities: Athens, Sparta, Delphi, Olympia, Corinth, Thebes, Knossos and
Marathon
Islands: Crete, Rhodes, Lesvos and Samos
Seas: Sea of Crete, Ionian Sea, Aegean Sea and Mediterranean Sea
Other: Thrace, Macedonia, Persian Empire, Mount Olympus and Pindos
Mountains