7th Grade History                                  Name: _________________________________________  Score:
Teacher: Mr. Cap   Quiz over  Chapter 6 1st 1/2

1.  What three "p" s did the Greeks excell in?________________________________________________________

2.  What is pictured to the right? _______________________________________

3.  Greeks were descendents of Japheth 's son ___________________________

4.  Minoan civilization lived on the island of ____________________________ 1600 to 1400 B.C.

5.  Minoan civilization built an impressive palace at___________________________________

6.  Minoan civilization crisscrossed the Aegean Sea as ____________________ traders.

7. What do some historians believe happeded to the minoans? _____________________________________________________

   8.  What is the name of the woman to the left? ______________________________

   9.  How was the horse used in the background of the picture? _________________

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   10. The Mycenaens flourished on the ____________________________ of Greece.

   11.  The Mycenaens built a fortress city of Mycenae with __________ 10 feet thick.

12.  After the Trojan War 1200 B.C., the________________________ conquered Greece and Greece fell into the Dark Ages

13.  What stopped during the Greek Dark Ages? ___________________________ (writing stopped). 

14.  Around 700 B.C. Greece was greatly influenced by the blind poet_______________________________.

15.  This blind poet wrote the classics ___________________________ and the ______________________________.

16.  What god title were these given? Apollo, Poseidon , Artemis, __________________________________________________

   17.  What does the word "Polis" mean? ___________________________________

   18. Acropolis is the place where the _____________________________ met.

   19.  Next to the Acropolis was the __________________________ or marketplace.

   Define these words  20.  Gymnasium, ____________________________________

     amphitheater ____________________ Olympics: _________________________

20.  Cyrus the Great added _________________________________ to his Persian Empire in 546 B.C.

21.  Next Persian king _______________________________________ tries to add mainland Greece to Persian Empire.  

22.  Greeks defeated Persia @ Battle of ____________________________________________

23.  How many men and ships did Xerxes send to Greece? _______________________ men; ______________________ships.

24.  What does this quote mean? " Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie. "

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25. After Xerxes gets by Thermopylae he then heads toward Athens but is defeated @ ________________________________.

26.  The Greek city of __________________________ became the leading city-state of Greece.

27.  Athens was first a _____________________________________ where the people voted for laws.

28. Athenian democracy began with the laws of______________________, and reached its height by __________________

29.  After Athens became rich an ________________________________ took over.