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This document contains a review game with a variety of questions and answers on Ancient Greece. The topics covered include mythology, history, and culture. The document is suitable for secondary school students.

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**Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, mostly** 1. This person criticized the Sophists, stating that absolute standards did exist for truth and justice 2. This person was accused of "corrupting the youth" 3. This person was accused of "neglecting the city's gods" 4. This person was...

**Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, mostly** 1. This person criticized the Sophists, stating that absolute standards did exist for truth and justice 2. This person was accused of "corrupting the youth" 3. This person was accused of "neglecting the city's gods" 4. This person was put to death by drinking hemlock 5. This person wanted society to be governed by a philosopher-king 6. This person said that "The unexamined life is not worth living" 7. The question/answer method of teaching is named after this person 8. This "lover of wisdom's" great-grand student took over the world 9. The author of "The Republic" wrote down this person's conversations 10. This person's work provided the basis of the scientific method 1. **Socrates** 2. **Socrates** 3. **Socrates** 4. **Socrates** 5. **Plato** 6. **Socrates** 7. **Socrates** 8. **Socrates** 9. **Socrates** 10. **Aristotle** **Bring it Around Town** 1. Name the four seas that were most important to Ancient Greece 2. This geographic feature was responsible for the Greeks developing small, independent communities 3. The earliest Greek civilization was the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ civilization 4. The home of the gods in Greek mythology 5. The Greek word for marketplace 6. The headquarters of the Delian League 7. The city state where democracy developed 8. The city state that developed a highly militaristic culture 9. The plain where the Athenians faced the Persians in 490 BC 10. The mountain pass where the 300 (and 7000) fought the Persians 1. **Black, Ionian, Aegean, Mediterranean** 2. **Mountains** 3. **Mycenaean** 4. **Mount Olympus** 5. **Agora** 6. **Delos** 7. **Athens** 8. **Sparta** 9. **Marathon** 10. **Thermopylae** **Who's Who** 1. The war between the Trojans and Mycenaeans started when this person was kidnapped 2. The most famous Dorian storyteller 3. His approach to law was so harsh that his name became an adjective for harshness itself 4. Outlawed debt slavery in Athens 5. Created the Council of Five Hundred 6. Ran the first marathon ever 7. The Persian leader whose fleet was largely defeated at Salamis 8. Opened up participation in government to many people in Athens 9. Wrote the tragedy "Oedipus the King" 10. Name one of the great Greek historians 1. **Helen** 2. **Homer** 3. **Draco** 4. **Solon** 5. **Cleisthenes** 6. **Phidippides** 7. **Xerxes** 8. **Pericles** 9. **Sophocles** 10. **Herodotus and Thucydides** **Grab Bag** 1. The name for a fortified hilltop, often a spot where citizens would take advantage of Greece's temperate climate to discuss city government 2. The Messenians became \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_, peasants forced to stay on the land they worked to support the Spartans 3. The fearsome fighting formation of the Spartans 4. The masterpiece of Greek architecture and craftsmanship 5. The war between Athens and Sparta 6. Diogenes lived in one 7. The process in Athens in which someone would be voted into exile for 10 years 8. Government ruled by a small group of noble, landowning families 9. Government ruled by a few powerful people, not necessarily nobles 10. The values of harmony, order, balance, and proportion were part of the form of art known as 1. **Acropolis** 2. **Helots** 3. **Phalanx** 4. **Parthenon** 5. **The Peloponnesian War** 6. **Wine jug/barrel** 7. **Ostracism** 8. **Aristocracy** 9. **Oligarchy** 10. **Classical Art**

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