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Dubj History
7th Grade History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Goddess of the moon | Artemis/diana |
| Goddess of wisdom | Athena/minerva |
| Goddess of crops (harvest) | Demeter/ceres |
| God of the sun | Apollo/apollo |
| God of war | Ares |
| King of the gods | Zeus/jupiter |
| God of fire | Hephaestus/vulcon |
| God of the sea | Poseidon/neptune |
| Protectress of marriage | Hera/juno |
| Goddess of love and beauty | Aphrodite |
| God of orators | Hermes/pluto |
| God of fertility | Dionysus/bacchus |
| Athenian comic dramatist | Aristophanes |
| Greek philosopher, a pupil of Plato, he is also called "the founder of biology" | Aristotle |
| Patron goddess of Athens | Athena |
| System of government developed in ancient Athens | Democracy |
| The simplest of the three types of Greek columns | Doric |
| The "father of history" - he wrote about the Persian Wars | Herodotus |
| Founder of the most famous school of medicine in ancient Greece | Hippocrates |
| Author of the Iliad and the Odyssey | Homer |
| Athenian sculptor whose best known work is the "Discus Thrower" | Myron |
| Games were held here by the ancient Greeks every four years | Olympia |
| Ancient Greeks went to this institution for advice and guidance - the most famous was located in Delphi | Oracle |
| Located on the Athenian acropolis, it is sometimes called the world's most beautiful building | Parthenan |
| Greek philosopher - in his Republic he described an Ideal State | Plato |
| Greek mathematician who discovered that the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides | Pythagoras |
| Greece was divided into many of them | City - States |
| These people were taken prisoner by the Spartans and forced into slavery | Helots |
| The Persian War lasted how many years | 27 |
| People of Athens gathered there to visit and discuss the latest news | Marketplace |
| One reason city-states never united into one strong country was that the cities were separated by bodies of water and by these | Mountains |
| Men between 20 and 30 who kept the helots under control in Sparta | Cadets |
| Name for the group of adult male citizens who made the laws in Athens | Assembly |
| The group in Athens which decided if a person was guilty or not guilty following a court trial | Jury |
| This freedom allowed Athenians to criticise public officials | Freedom of Speech |
| How many years between Olympic games | 4 |
| City-state which developed the most advanced civilization on earth | Athens |
| This city-state stressed military training for boys and men | Sparta |
| An army from there conquered Greece after the war between Sparta and Athens | Macedonia |
| People of Sparta who were allowed to own businesses and property, and who also cared for the home | Spartan women |
| His conquests included Egypt, the Persian Empire and Greece | Alexander the Great |
| In Athens, homes were small and plain, but these were very beautiful | Public buildings |
| Counrty that contributed greatly to Western civilization | Greece |
| This city-state was interested in art, literature, science and philosophy | Athens |
| Age when Spartan youth began his military career | 7 |
| Sea that seperated the Greek mainland from Perisan-controlled Asia Minor | Aegean |
| He was ostracized when he opposed Thermistocles' plan to build up the Athenian fleet in preperation for the 2nd Persian invasion | Aristides |
| King of Persia who launched the first invasion of Greece in 490 B.C. | Darius |
| As tokens of submission, the Persians demanded water and this | Earth |
| Body of water crossed by the Persian army with a bridge of boats | Hellespont |
| Term used to describe a Greek infantry or foot soldier | Hoplite |
| Spartan king who died heroically at the battle of Thermopylae | Leonidas |
| In 490 B.C.the Athenians proved that the Persians were not invicible by defeating them at this battle, 26 miles from Athens | Marathon |
| A term sometimes used to mean "Persians" | Medes |
| A Greek colony in Asia Minor whose revolt against Persian rule in 499 B.C. helped to "trigger" the Persian Wars | Miletus |
| Athenian general whose strategy helped to win the battle of Marathon | Miltiades |
| Many Greek colonies had come under Persian rule in | Asia Minor |
| Athenian runner who is said to have run to Sparta and back to summon help for the Athenians in 490 B.C. | Pheidippides |
| Goddess who helps Jason | Hera |
| Their song lures sailors to their deaths | Sirens |
| They have bird bodies and woman's heads | Harpies |
| Heroes who accompany Jason | Argonauts |
| Daughter of Athamas | Helle |
| He sent Jason on his quest | Pelias |
| He saves the Argonauts from the Sirens | Orpheus |
| Princess cursed with a large appetite | Charybdis |
| Princess of Colchis who helps Jason | Medea |
| Magician and ruler of Colchis | Aeetes |
| She was one of the Argonauts | Atalanta |
| Rescued by the Golden Ram | Phrixus |
| Charioteer of the sun | Helios |
| Centaur who taught many heroes | Chiron |
| God who orders the sacrifice of the Golden Ram | Zeus |
| Land of the Golden Fleece | Colchis |
| Hero who was left behind | Heracles |
| Medea's bewitching aunt | Circe |
| Enslaved people | Helots |
| Merchants and artisans | Perioeci |
| Spartan managers | Ephors |
| Served as Sparta's high court | Council of Elders |
| Region in Greece where Sparta was located | The Peloponnesus |
| Unhealthy Spartan newborns were | Left to die |
| Spartan citizens were always | Perioeci |
| Had the strongest navy in Greece | Athens |
| Had the strongest army in Greece | Sparta |
| Open-air marketplace | Agora |
| Fortified hill | Acropolis |
| City-state | Polis |
| A polis was made up of | villages, fields and orchards |
| The average Greek city-state contained | Between 5,000 and 10,000 citizens |
| Only citizens of the city-state could | Vote and own property |
| Spartan nobles were known as | Aristocrats |
| Means to think | Meditate |
| Means favoring the equality of all people | Democratic |
| When people gain understanding, they gain | Enlightenment |
| Warships that had three levels of rowers on each side were called | Triremes |
| When only a few people have the power to rule, that form of government is known as a | Oligarchy |
| Hired soldiers are also called | Mercenaries |
| Protective group formed by city-state | Defensive league |
| Temple to Athena in Athens | Parthenon |
| Process that purifies metal ore and hardens it, especially iron | Smelting |
| To worship one god | Monotheism |
| Person who claims to have a message from God | Prophet |
| Hebrew teacher | Rabbi |
| Hebrew holy day; day of rest and religious study | Sabbath |
| Children, grandchildren, etc | Descendants |
| The science of making acurate observations of the sun, moon, planets and stars | Astronomy |
| The one god of Hebrews | Yahweh |
| Chaldean king who built a capital at Babylon and the hanging gardens | Nebuchadnezzer |
| Assyrian king who created one of the world's first libraries | Ashurbanipal |
| First king of the Hebrews | Saul |
| Hewbrew king who united the tribes of Israel and built a great capital at Jerusalem; writer of psalms | David |
| Religious leader of the Persians who taught about two gods- one good, one evil- locked in constant combat | Zoroaster |
| Led the Hebrews out of slavery in Egypt; received the Ten Commandments | Moses |
| Hebrew holy book; first five books of the Bible | Torah |
| The Hebrew religion is | Judaism |
| The most important idea spread by the Phoenicians was | The alphabet |
| The capital of Chaldean Empire | Babylon |
| The capital of Persian Empire | Persepolis |
| Descendents of the Aryans | Persians |
| Who were the first people to use coined money | Lydians |
| The Persian Empire uses which language | Aramaic |
| Which area is between Egypt and Mesopotamia, was settled by Hebrews and Phoenicians and promised to Abraham | Canaan |
| The Persian people who led the army into battle- There were 10,000 of them | Immortals |
| Who is believed to have developed the process of smelting | Hittites |
| Artenian leader who helped to launch the expedition to Syracuse and later defected to Sparta | Alcibiades |
| Athenian leader who wanted to punish Mytilene for its revolt by executing all its men and enslaving its women and children | Cleon |
| Commercial city which was an ally of Sparta in the war | Corinth |
| The original headquarters of the Delian League was on this island | Delos |
| Tiny island which tried to stay neutral during the Peloponnesian War | Melos |
| An Athens ally which revolted against Athenian rule during the Peloponnesian War | Mytilene |
| One of the Syracuse expedition leaders- His superstition and caution proved disastrous | Nicias |
| His death in the Great Plague of 429 B.C. was a great blow to Athens | Pericles |
| A traditional Greek enemy, it became an ally of Sparta during the war | Persia |
| This killed about 1/4 of the Athenian population in 429 B.C. | The plague |
| A Greek sity in Sicily, it was attacked by Athens during the war | Syracuse |
| Athens' port of harbor | Piraeus |
| Athenian teacher and philosopher who was executed | Socrates |
| Wine god associated with Greek drama | Dionysus |
| Wall paintings in wet plaster found at Knossos | Frescoes |
| Began "question & answer" method of teaching | Socrates |
| Greek columns most copied by the Romans | Corinthian |
| Athenian dramatist, author of Oedipus Rex | Sophocles |
| God of the underworld | Hades/pluto |
| God of light, truth, music and prophecy | Hestia/vesta |
| God of all those who live by their wits, messenger | Hermes/Mercury |
| Geographer who calculated the circumference of the Earth to within 200 miles of its actual measure | Eratosthenes |
| Developed the first two steps in the scientific method | Thales of Miletus |
| Father of Geometry and auther or "Elements" a book of geometry | Euclid |
| Zeus' first wife was | Hera |
| After Cronus, this person became the lord of the universe | Zeus |
| Gaea was angry at Zeus for | Locking the Titans in Tartarus |
| Who were the two monsters Mother Earth brought forth to fight Zeus | Typhon and Echidna |
| A skilled craftsman who was the god of smiths and fire- Created thrones and made weapons for gods and made jewelry for Aphrodite | Hephaestus |
| The only goddess to have neither mother nor father | Cynthera |
| Apollo punished her by making sure nobody believed her prophecies | Cassandra |
| He was the greatest of the Trojan warriors | Hector |
| He married Helen and became the King of Sparta | Menelaus |
| Built one of the first sports arenas | The Minoans |
| "The Iliad" is the story of the war between | Trojans and Greeks |
| Heracules mother | Alcmena |
| Titan who holds up the sky | Atlas |
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