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Greece Bingo Questions: 1. Which city-state valued intellect, education and art: Answer: Athens 2. What type of government would have been found in Sparta: Answer: Oligarchy 3. Which leader was known for ruling Athens for over 30 years, and celebrated the values of this city in his famous Funeral Oration. Answer: Pericles 4. The rebellion of this group eventually led to Sparta transforming into a completely militaristic society. Answer: Helots 5. Which battle during the Persian Wars ended with a man running 26 miles to Athens to tell the people that the Greeks had won? Answer: Battle of Marathon 6. This alliance brought tremendous wealth into Athens and paid for their golden age? Answer: Delian League 7. Which city-state won the Peloponnesian War? Answer: Sparta 8. His main goals included conquering the Persian Empire and spreading Greek culture throughout the world. Answer: Alexander the Great 9. In a Greek tragedy, the hero is always destroyed by this characteristic? Answer: Hubris 10. He developed a method of teaching based on asking questions, which is still used by teachers today. Answer: Socrates 11. In Plato’s work The Republic, he argued that this group should rule society: Answer: Philosopher-kings 12. This kind of column was thin, elegant, and can be found in the White House. Answer: Ionic

13. It was because of this geographic feature that Greece was divided into citystates. Answer: Mountains 14. This is the form of government that existed in Athens: Answer: Direct Democracy 15. During this battle, Athens was burnt to the ground but the Athenian navy won an enormous victory over the Persians Answer: Battle of Salamis 16. He is famous for developing the scientific method and tutoring Alexander the Great. Answer: Aristotle 17. He was the first individual to unite both Macedonia and Greece under one government. Answer: Philip II 18. In the Hellenistic Era, where was the great library that contained much of the knowledge in the world during this period. Answer: Alexandria 19. True or False, during the Hellenistic Era, it was Aristotle that created the foundations of modern day geometry. Answer: False 20. This is the city-state where the Parthenon would have been located: Answer: Athens 21. He is considered the father of western medicine, and established an oath that all doctors must still take. Answer: Hippocrates 22. At this battle, 300 Spartans sacrificed their lives battling the Persians Answer: Battle of Thermopylae 23. When he conquered the city of Thebes, he killed 6,000 people and sold 30,000 more into slavery to strike fear into the hearts of his enemies. Answer: Alexander the Great 24. This kind of column was larger and contained very little decoration on the capitol. Answer: Doric

25. He was killed by the people of Athens by being forced to drink hemlock. Answer: Socrates 26. Athens experimented with this form of government, but ultimately determined they were not happy with a system where only a small number of people would rule: Answer: Oligarchy 27. In this city-state, sick babies were left on mountains to die. Answer: Sparta 28. This term describes the spread of Greek culture and ideas through the kingdoms created out of Alexander the Great’s empire. Answer: Hellenistic 29. True or False, women in Sparta had more rights and freedom than women in Athens Answer: True 30. Place a penny on any of the battles on the board that were won by Athens. Answer: Marathon and Salamis 31. The character of Oedipus demonstrated this when he thought he could change the fate the gods had in store for him Answer: Hubris 32. He created the first university in world history. Answer: Plato 33. This form of government would not work in the United States because our population is too large. Answer: Direct Democracy 34. He believed that a constitutional democracy was the best form of government. Answer: Aristotle 35. He was assassinated at his own daughter’s wedding. Answer: Philip II