Ancient Greece Study Guide

Ancient Greeks made their living raising

• sheep

• cattle

• horses

• rabbits

The __________ civilization was the first to arise in ancient Greece.

• Phoenician

• Dorian

• Mycenaean

• Minoan

The time around 600 B.C. is called the Dark Ages because

• people forgot how to make candles

• people forgot how to read and write

• there was a great famine

• there was a terrible plague

Early Greeks lived by

• fishing

• trade

• herding goats and sheep

• all of these

Spartan women were trained in

• cooking, cleaning, and combat

• art, music, and poetry

• sewing, swordplay, and trade

• running, wrestling, and javelin throwing

Who wrote the Odyssey?

• Sophocles

• Homer

• Euripides

• Aesop

Aristotle taught his students to follow the

• Golden Rule

• Golden Fleece

• golden mean

• none of these

This Macedonian king loved Greek culture and PLANNED to conquer Persia.

• Alexander the Great

• Aeschylus

• Philip II

• Homer

Homer's epic, the Iliad, is about

• the Trojan War

• Alexander the Great

• Gilgamesh

• the oracle at Delphi

The Delian League began as an alliance to

• protect the Greeks from the Persians

• make Athens rich

• make trade more profitable

• build faster ships