Blank Jeopardy

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The First Greek Civilizations
The Greek City-States
Classical Greece
Culture of Classical Greece
Alexander The Great
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Bronze-using peoples who lived on Crete.
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Who were the Minoans?
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Greek poet who wrote the Illiad.
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Who was Homer?
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Name given to the type of literature, such as the
Odyssey, that tells of a great heroes deeds.
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What is an epic poem?
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A Greek heroes struggle for excellence was
called this.
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What is arete?
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In the Illiad, the Mycenaean Greeks finally take
the city of Troy with this surprise.
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What is the Trojan Horse?
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Name of a Greek city, town, or village and its
surroundings.
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What is a polis?
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Name of a fortified area on a hilltop in Ancient
Greece.
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What is an acropolis?
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Heavily armed foot soldiers that fought shoulder
to shoulder in a formation called a phalanx.
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Who were hoplites?
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This was an important Greek city colony found on
the Bosporus. Later named Istanbul.
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What is Byzantium?
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Name of the elected members of Spartas oligarchy?
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Who were the ephors?
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City where Pheidippidess 26-mile run began.
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What was Marathon?
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Name of the Athenian defensive alliance.
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What was the Delian League?
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Another name for Athenians vote of banishment.
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What was ostracism?
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Name given to the height of Athenian power and
brilliance.
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What is the Age of Pericles?
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This was considered the home of the chief gods
and goddesses.
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What was Mt. Olympus?
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Sacred shrines where priests or priestesses
revealed the future.
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What were oracles?
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Famous temple to Athena.
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What was the Parthenon?
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Teaching approach using question and answer.
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What is the Socratic method?
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This sixth-century philosopher taught that truth
was to be found in music and numbers.
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Who was Pythagoras?
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Person who wrote what is considered to be the
first real history in Western civilization.
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Who is Herodotus?
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Home of Alexander the Great.
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What was Macedonia?
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King of Macedonia who conquered the Greeks at the
Battle of Chaeronea in 338 B.C.
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Who was Phillip II?
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This person was the founder of Stoicism.
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Who was Zeno?
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This Greek is associated with finding the value
of pi, working with the geometry of spheres, and
discovering specific gravity.
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Who was Archimedes?
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Greek philosopher who said that the unexamined
life is not worth living.
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Who was Socrates?