The Ancient Egypt Version Ancient Greece Jeopardy Vocab

The Ancient Egypt Version!

Ancient Greece Jeopardy! Vocab More Vocab People Geography Sparta V Athens Fun Facts 100 100 100 200 200 200 300 300 300 400 400 400 500 500 500

Vocab: 100 A piece of land surrounded nearly by water is called: ANSWER: Peninsula

Vocab: 200 What is a government by the people known as: ANSWER: Democracy

Vocab: 300 What are traditional stories that explains the practices or beliefs of a people, or something in the natural world is known as a… ANSWER: Myth

Vocab : 400 A person who seizes power and rules with absolute authority is called a… ANSWER: Tyrant

Vocab : 500 A government in which a few wealthy people rule all is known as… ANSWER: an Oligarchy

More Vocab : 100 A fighting formation in which foot soldier would march in shoulder to shoulder formation is called a… ANSWER: Phalanx

More Vocab : 200 A city-state in ancient Greece is known as… ANSWER: a Polis

More Vocab : 300 A group of people living in a new territory who have ties to their homeland or the new territory itself is called a… ANSWER: Colony

More Vocab : 400 A person who searches for wisdom or enlightenment is known as a … ANSWER: Philosopher

More Vocab : 500 A form of government in which all citizens can participate in the decision making process is called a… ANSWER: Direct Democracy

People : 100 The Olympics were created and hosted for… ANSWER: Zeus

People : 200 This character from Homer’s epic, the Iliad, is known as the greatest Greek warrior: ANSWER: Achilles

People : 300 This Greek was sentenced to death by drinking poison for what the government felt was corrupting young minds to question everything: ANSWER: Socrates

People : 400 This person’s mother had his step mother and half sister burned at the stake as to not interfere with his reign as the new king: ANSWER: Alexander the Great

People : 500 This person is nicknamed the father of science. ANSWER: Aristotle

Geography: 100 Greece is located on which sea? ANSWER: the Mediterranean

Geography : 200 The present day middle eastern country of Iran is located in which former ancient empire? ANSWER: the Persian Empire

Geography : 300 Greece is located on which continent? ANSWER: Europe

Geography : 400 Alexander the Great became king of what kingdom after his father was assassinated by his bodyguard? ANSWER: Macedonia

Geography : 500 Name the continents that Alexander’s Empire spanned: ANSWER: Europe, Asia, and Africa

Sparta v Athens : 200 What type of government did both Sparta and Athens have? ANSWER: Sparta- Oligarchy Athens- Democracy

Sparta v Athens: 100 At what age did Spartan boys begin attending military training camp? ANSWER: 7 years old

Sparta v Athens : 300 What action did the Spartans take insure its society would continue to produce fierce warriors? ANSWER: They would leave weak/ sick babies to die on a hill

Sparta v Athens : 400 The Greeks introduced this idea, claiming its people were members of a political community with rights and responsibilities: ANSWER: Citizenship

Sparta v Athens : 500 What military tactic did Sparta use against the Athenians to win the Peloponnesian War? ANSWER: Their navy created a blockade around Athens that cut off their resources- Athenians were sick and starving.

Fun Facts : 200 Who won the battle of Thermopylae? ANSWER: the Persians

Fun Facts: 100 What type of democracy did ancient Greece have? ANSWER: Direct Democracy

Fun Facts : 300 Alexanders empire spanned how many miles? ANSWER: 2 million miles

Fun Facts : 400 What mythological river did Achilles’s mother dip him in to make him immortal: ANSWER: the River Styx

Fun Facts : 500 How did Greek citizens weaken Greece as a civilization? ANSWER: they were more loyal to their polis than to Greece