GREEK HISTORY
Instructor: Carol Buckles
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Class: Greek History 101
Date:
Results: A++
Instructions
Read each question carefully, then choose the correct answer.
1) When did the Polioni arrive on Lemnos?
- a. Ca 5600 BC
- b. Polioni schmolioni
- c. Who cares?
2) When was the period of the Cycladic Art style?
- a. Ca 4400 BC
- b. I prefer to re-Cyclad and reuse.
- c. Who cares?
3) When was the Minoan civilization forming?
- a. Ca 2400 BC
- b. He turned his daughter to gold.
- c. Who cares?
4) When did the Mycenean era begin?
- a. 2000 BC
- b. In the Iliad
- c. Who cares?
5) When did the first Greeks arrive in Greece?
- a. Ca 2000 BC
- b. It’s all Greek to me.
- c. Who cares?
6) When was the Trojan War?
- a. Ca 1200 BC
- b. The Trojans are the USC team
- c. Who cares?
7) When was the Geometric Era?
- a. Ca 800 BC
- b. I prefer algebra.
- c. Who cares?
8) When was the Archaic Period? Remember that this was when the Greek Dark Ages ended and writing returned to Greece.
- a. Ca 650 BC
- b. When the Phonecian alphabet showed up.
- c. Who cares?
9) When was the era of the Persian Wars?
- a. Ca 400s BC
- b. Iran [Persia] has always been at war
- c. Who cares?
10) When did Alexander the Great "Hellenize" [make Greek] the known world?
- a. Ca 200s BC
- b. When he wrote Alexander’s Ragtime Band
- c. Who cares?
11) When was the Roman Empire launched?
- a. 31 BC
- b. When Octavion Caesar won the Battle of Actium
- c. Who cares?
12) When was the Byzantine Era?
- a. 330 AD
- b. When Byzantium became Constantinople
- c. Who cares?
13) When did Constantinople fall?
- a. 1453 AD
- b. When the Turks sacked the city.
- c. Who cares?
14) When the Greek War of Independence take place?
- a. 1821 AD
- b. In the Peloponnese
- c. Who cares?
15) When did the Dodecanese join the modern state of Greece?
- a. 1947 AD
- b. The dodo is extinct
- c. Who cares?
16) When did the Greek Civil War end?
- a. 1949 AD
- b. When the Communists were defeated.
- c. Who cares?
17) Who said, “Greeks don’t fight like heroes, heroes fight like Greeks” ?
- a. Winston Churchill
- b. Luke Skywalker
- c. Who cares?
