Ancient Greece

What this quiz asks

• Greeks shipped wine and olive oil in tall two-handled jars like this one. What is this type of jar called?
• Democracy, from the Greek for 'rule by the people', took shape around 508 BC in which city-state?
• Which city-state took boys from their families at about age seven for a harsh military training called the agoge?
• Winners at the ancient Olympic Games were crowned with a wreath of olive leaves.
• How often were the ancient Olympic Games held?
• Alexander the Great inherited the throne of which kingdom in 336 BC?
• Women had the right to vote in the assembly of democratic Athens.
• Which philosopher was hired to tutor the teenage Alexander the Great?
• Select ALL of these thinkers who were ancient Greek philosophers.
• Which Spartan king led the famous last stand against the Persians at Thermopylae in 480 BC?
• Sentenced to death in Athens in 399 BC, how was the philosopher Socrates executed?
• What was the name of Alexander the Great's famous warhorse?
• Did the long Peloponnesian War end with Sparta defeating Athens?
• Which city, founded by Alexander the Great in Egypt, later became home to the most famous library of the ancient world?
• Select ALL of these lands that Alexander the Great conquered.
• Which Greek writer, who described the wars between Greece and Persia, is often called the 'Father of History'?
• Order these events from earliest to latest.
• Athenians could vote to exile a citizen for ten years by scratching his name on pieces of broken pottery. What was this called?
• How old was Alexander the Great when he died in Babylon in 323 BC?
• Which Athenian lawmaker cancelled debts and ended enslavement for debt around 594 BC?