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Which Greek city-state is celebrated as the birthplace of democracy? | 0%/1 |
Which militaristic city-state trained its male citizens as soldiers from boyhood? | 0%/1 |
Athens and Sparta led the opposing alliances in which long war? | 100%/1 |
Which city-state was renowned for its powerful navy and for building the Parthenon? | 100%/1 |
Which wealthy commercial city-state controlled the strategic isthmus linking northern and southern Greece? | 100%/1 |
Which northern kingdom rose under Philip II to dominate the Greek city-states? | 100%/1 |
Roughly how many Spartans made the famous last stand at the pass of Thermopylae? | 0%/1 |
Which city-state briefly dominated Greece after defeating Sparta at the Battle of Leuctra? | 100%/1 |
The Delian League, a naval alliance against Persia, was led by which city-state? | 100%/1 |
The rival Peloponnesian League was headed by which city-state? | 100%/1 |
Which statesman led Athens during its cultural golden age in the 5th century BC? | 100%/1 |
Which Spartan king led the Greek defenders at Thermopylae? | 100%/1 |
Sparta was unusual in being ruled at the same time by how many hereditary kings? | 100%/1 |
The enslaved agricultural laborers who worked the land for Sparta were called what? | 100%/1 |
Which lawgiver is credited with the harsh, militaristic constitution of Sparta? | 100%/1 |
Which Athenian lawgiver introduced early reforms easing debt and broadening participation? | 100%/1 |
The Athenian assembly in which citizens debated and voted was called the what? | 100%/1 |
Which city-state founded the great Sicilian colony of Syracuse? | 100%/1 |
Thebes fielded which famous elite military unit of paired warriors? | 100%/1 |
Which Ionian city-state was a hub of early philosophy and sparked the Ionian Revolt against Persia? | 100%/1 |
Which Athenian reformer is often called the "father of Athenian democracy" for his late-6th-century reforms? | 100%/1 |
Which Spartan council of elders held great power over the state? | 100%/1 |
Which early Athenian lawgiver was so severe that his name became a byword for harsh laws? | 100%/1 |
Which island state in the Saronic Gulf was an early naval and trading rival of Athens? | 100%/1 |
The famous Oracle at Delphi, consulted by all Greek city-states, was dedicated to which god? | 100%/1 |
The ancient Olympic Games were held every four years at which religious sanctuary? | 0%/1 |
Athenian forces won a famous, decisive victory over a larger Persian army at which 490 BC battle? | 100%/1 |
What was the standard warship of the powerful Athenian navy, propelled by three banks of oars? | 100%/1 |
What were the heavily-armed citizen-soldiers of the Greek city-states called? | 100%/1 |
What was the central public square and marketplace in a typical Greek city-state? | 100%/1 |
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle are the three most famous philosophers from which city-state? | 100%/1 |
The tight, rectangular military formation of spearmen used by Greek armies was known as the what? | 100%/1 |
Who was the Persian king whose massive invasion of Greece was defeated at the Battles of Salamis and Plataea? | 100%/1 |
What was the fortified citadel, typically built on a high point for defense, in a Greek city-state? | 100%/1 |
Alexander the Great, who conquered the Persian Empire, was the king of which state? | 100%/1 |
Which Athenian general devised the naval strategy that defeated the Persian fleet at the Battle of Salamis? | 100%/1 |
In most Greek city-states, citizenship was generally restricted to what group? | 100%/1 |
What was the Athenian democratic practice of holding a vote to banish a politician for ten years called? | 100%/1 |
Athens' disastrous and costly invasion of which island was a major turning point in the Peloponnesian War? | 100%/1 |
The pro-Spartan oligarchy that brutally ruled Athens after its defeat in the Peloponnesian War was known as what? | 100%/1 |
Philip II of Macedon crushed the Greek city-states' power at which 338 BC battle? | 100%/1 |
Who was the brilliant Theban general who shattered Spartan military prestige at the Battle of Leuctra? | 100%/1 |
Which charismatic but unreliable Athenian general famously defected to Sparta during the Peloponnesian War? | 100%/1 |
In the Spartan social system, what were the free but non-citizen inhabitants who worked as merchants and craftsmen called? | 100%/1 |
What was the term for a resident foreigner living in Athens, who had legal protections but could not vote or own land? | 0%/1 |
The major city of Byzantium (later Constantinople) was founded as a colony by which Greek city-state? | 100%/1 |
Which powerful Peloponnesian city-state was the traditional and long-standing rival of Sparta? | 0%/1 |
The uneasy truce in the middle of the Peloponnesian War, signed in 421 BC, is known as what? | 100%/1 |
What was the name of the primary law court in democratic Athens, where large juries of citizens heard cases? | 100%/1 |
What was the term for a public work that wealthy Athenian citizens were required to fund, such as sponsoring a warship? | 100%/1 |
What was the title of the five powerful magistrates in Sparta, elected annually, who could even challenge the kings? | 100%/1 |
The Peloponnesian War effectively ended when the Spartan general Lysander destroyed the Athenian fleet at which decisive 405 BC battle? | 100%/1 |
In early Athens, what was the name of the powerful council and high court composed of former chief magistrates? | 100%/1 |
What was the title of the chief magistrate, or ruler, in many Greek city-states, including Athens? | 100%/1 |
The treaty brokered by the Persian monarch that ended the Corinthian War in 387 BC is commonly known as the what? | 100%/1 |
What was the title for the ten annually elected military commanders in Athens who often held great political influence? | 100%/1 |
What was the name of Sparta's institutionalized secret police, tasked with terrorizing the helot population to prevent uprisings? | 100%/1 |
The Athenian trade embargo against which nearby city-state was a major grievance cited by Sparta for starting the Peloponnesian War? | 0%/1 |
What was the title of a Spartan military governor appointed to rule over a conquered or allied city? | 100%/1 |
During the Peloponnesian War, an oligarchic coup in 411 BC briefly replaced the Athenian democracy with a council known as what? | 100%/1 |
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