Ancient Greece combined

Archaeology

Use of buildings, monuments, artefacts and the like to learn about the past

Pottery

Made of fired clay; allows us to date ancient sites and learn about trade there

Homer

Author of the 'Iliad' and 'Odyssey'

Playwright

Is Sophocles famous as a historian, philosopher, politician, or playwright?

Xenophon

Which one was a historian? Xenophon, Demosthenes, Aristophanes?

Numismatics

Term for the study of coins

Epigraphy

The study of inscriptions

Hellenes

Ancient Greeks called themselves:

Pindus

North to south mountain chain in Greece

Aegean

Sea to the immediate east of Greece

mountainous

Which one applies to Greece? Flat, fertile, mountainous, desert?

Sea

Which form of movement was favoured by the Greeks? Mule, horse, sea?

Self-sufficiency

Does 'Autarkeia' or autarky refer to pride, self-sufficiency or isolationism?

Arable

Is land that can be cultivated called alluvial, febrile or arable?

Red Sea

Which area was NOT colonised by Greeks? Black Sea, Red Sea, North Africa, Spain

Marble

Greece's limestone mountains provided a famous Greek building material:-\_________

75

Percentage of Greece that is mountainous: 50, 66, 75, 90

isthmus

Which is made of land, not water? Aegean Basin, Corinthian Gulf, Saronic Gulf, Isthmus

Megara

Two main cities of the Isthmus: Corinth and \______

Agora

Greek marketplace

Soldiers

Two groups who rested in winter: sailors and \_______

Mycenaean

Which civilisation was overthrown when the Dark Ages began in Greece?

1100

Approximate date when the Dark Ages began in Greece:

1100, 1000, 800, 650 BC?

Dorians

Invaders associated with beginning of Greek Dark Ages

Ionians

Main opponents of the Dorians

Poleis

Plural of 'Polis'

Fort

Does 'acropolis' refer to a temple, a fort, a city-state or a mountain?

Synoecism

What is the Greek word for the amalgamation of towns and villages into one political unit, such as a polis?

Sicily

Athens was one of three Poleis with over 20,000 citizens. On what island were the other two?

Large

Was Sparta a relatively small, average, or large polis in geographical size?

Male

Citizenship qualifications varied, but citizens were ALWAYS free and \_____

Apathy

Which was NOT a common feature of Greek political life: patriotism, apathy, participation, strife

Oligarchy

Government by the few

Unity

The Trojan and Persian Wars give rare examples of Greek \________

oracles

Sources of divine guidance about the future

Delphi

Site of the main oracle in Greece

Pythian

Games held at Delphi: Nemean, Olympic, Pythian, Isthmian

pottery

Main source of archaeological information on colonisation comes from decorated\_______

potsherds

Pieces of broken pottery are called\_____

individuals

Strabo's story of the founding of Syracuse exemplifies the role of myth and \_____ such as Archias rather than social and economic factors.

Crisis

Did Finley say colonisation usually followed a 'condition of ' crisis, deficit or surplus?

Land

Shortage of \___ was a common reason for colonisation

Primogeniture

Inheritance by the eldest son

Persian

Cities in Asia Minor were prompted to colonise because the \____ Empire restricted inland movement

Miletus

This polis from Asia Minor established about 90 colonies in the Black Sea area

trading

Pithecusae, Massilia, Emporion and Naucratis were all examples of \_____ posts rather than colonies

Misnomer

'Colony' is a \_______ because most of the new settlements were independent states

Straits

The Chalcidian colonies of Zancle and Rhegium dominated the \_____ of Messina

Valve

Colonisation was a safety \____ in strife-torn polis

Taras

Colony of the Spartans

Warships

Developments in types of \____, such as the triaconter and penteconter, helped the spread of Greek colonies

oikistes

Was the founder of a colony called a cleric, apoikia or oikistes?

Slaves

Native people ousted by colonists often became\____

Euboea

The main type of Greek silver coin to spread from the 7th century came from the island of \_________

rich

Economic development encouraged the growth of a class that can be termed 'the new\____'

contemporary

There are no \_____ sources on tyrants

Aristocracy

Did tyranny tend to follow democracy, aristocracy or monarchy?

hereditary

'Tyrannos' originally described rule that was NOT: good, hereditary or solitary?

oligarch

Which was never a synonym for tyrant? Usurper, autocrat, king, oligarch

best

Aristocracy comes from the word 'aristoi',meaning '\____ men'

Cavalry

Which part of the army of a typical polis was provided by aristocrats? (e.g. artillery)

Isthmian

Tyranny was promoted by commercial development in the \_______ cities of Megara, Corinth and Sicyon

middle

Tyranny is often said to be connected to the growth of a '\____' class

Countryside

Thucydides tells us that in late 5th Century Athens, most Athenians lived in the (city or countryside?)

hoplite

The rise of a the middle class is often said to be connected to the development of '\____' warfare

phalanx

Hoplites fought in a formation known as a\_________

Corinth

Cypselus and Periander were tyrants in the city of\_____

Sicyon

The Orthagorids were tyrants in\______

Samos

Polycrates was tyrant of the island of \_____

Olympia

Tyrants showed their piety by dedications and games at Delphi and \_____

Bacchiads

The ruling family exiled from Corinth were the: Bacchiads, Heraclids, Orthagorids, Eurypontids,

varied

Pick the right answer from brackets: When tyrannies were overthrown they were replaced by (democratic, oligarchic or varied) systems

legendary

Which is not a meaning of 'archaic', for the Greeks or moderns: ancient, respected, legendary, outmoded

law

To the Greeks, which was more binding: decree, law, edict, ukase?

Tyrannos

To the Greeks, which of these terms sometimes meant 'king'? Basileus, Tyrannos, Lycurgus

Egypt

Naucratis was a Greek trading town in \______

Euboeans

The \______, especially from Chalcis and Eritrea, were the greatest Greek colonisers

Metropolis

Greek word for the mother state of a colony

Herodotus

The world's first historian

City

A 'self-governing geopolitical space combining town and country in a dynamic symbiosis' (Cartledge)

Polis

Cartledge: 'the characteristic, defining mode of Hellenic social coexistence was...what the Greeks called a \____

Aristotle

Who said 'Man is a political animal', designed to fulfil its potential within the political framework of a polis?

39th

In a list of the 2,000 most common ancient Greek words, polis ranks ahead of 'man' in gender sense and 'god'. Does it rank 9th, 29th, 39th or 49th?

citizen

Cartledge: Polis is best translated as '\___-state'

Greeks

Who was Herodotus discussing when he said: 'we are united in sharing the same kinship and language...we conduct sacrifices to the gods together and...share the same way of life'?

individualistic

Cartledge: 'the highly __nature of the Greek polis gives Greek civilisation its unique identity' (inventive or individualistic or aggressive?)

1,000

500BC-300AD approximate number of poleis: 150, 500, 700, 1000

90

Percentage of people living in the countryside in ancient Greece

eponymous

\_____ archons are those after whom the Athenians named the years

Theseus

Legendary Athenian king who supposedly oversaw the synoecism of Attica

2nd

In size of polis, was Athens 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th?

Phaleron

Early harbour of Athens

Attica

Region of which Athens was part

bypassed

Was Athens conquered, bypassed or damaged by the Dorian Invasions of 1200-1000?

Ionians

Athenians shared an ethnic identity with many Greeks of the Aegean Islands and Asia Minor as (Aeolians, Achaeans, Dorians, Ionians)

eupatrid

Athenian term for aristocrat

Cylon

Athenian who failed in attempt to become tyrant in 632: Theagenes, Cylon, Draco or Megacles

621

Draco codified the laws in: 632, 621, 594, 509?

Phylae

Archaic Athens had four\____ (phratries, phylae, kleria, thesmothetae) or tribes