Greek History A-Z

Can you guess these people, places, and things from Greek history starting with each letter of the alphabet?

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Hint		Answer
A	King who conquered the Persian Empire and spread Greek culture	Alexander the Great
B	Original name for Istanbul, before Constantinople	Byzantium
C	King of Greece during World War I	King Constantine I
D	Religious site famous for its oracle	Delphi
E	Mathematician known as the "father of geometry"	Euclid
F	Revolutionary organization to overthrow Ottoman rule, known as Filiki Eteria	Society of Friends
G	"Weapon" used by the Byzantine army to burn enemy ships	Greek fire
H	Author of the Illiad	Homer
I	First leader of modern Greece	Ioannis Kapodistrias
J	Roman Emperor ruled from Constantinople with his wife Theodora	Justinian
K	Palace complex and center of M in Crete	Knossos
L	Treaty that defined modern Greece's borders with Turkey	Treaty of Lausanne
M	Civilization in Crete from 3000-1400 BC	Minoan Civilization
N	1827 battle where an allied European fleet destroyed the Ottoman Navy	Battle of Navarino
O	Mountain where all the gods were	Mount Olympus
P	27-year war between Athens and Sparta	Peloponnesian War
Q	Ancient four-horse chariot used in chariot racing	Quadriga
R	Island where one of the Ancient wonders, the Colossus, once stood	Rhodes
S	Philosopher who taught Aristotle and died by poison	Socrates
T	Battle between the Spartans and the Persian army at a mountain pass	Thermopylae
U	Greek realm of the dead, ruled by Hades	Underworld
V	Powerful republic that conquered parts of Greece after the fall of the Byzantine Empire	Republic of Venice
W	In Greek mythology, Dionysus was the god of this	Wine
X	Persian king who launched the Second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC	Xerxes I
Y	Group of people that persecuted and expelled Greeks from Asia Minor and Thrace from 1914-1923	Young Turks
Z	King of the Gods in Greek mythology	Zeus

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