History of Greece 🇬🇷 - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Early civilization on the Greek island of Crete	Minoan Civilization	88%
Mathematician of this period who formulated a theorem related to right triangles	Pythagoras	86%
490 BC battle that gave its name to a 42-kilometer-long-race	Battle of Marathon	84%
Name the two epics created by Homer in this period (in chronological order)	Iliad	82%
	Odyssey	82%
Greece later fell to this Islamic empire that imposed the devshirme	Ottoman Empire	78%
Student of the above, founder of the Academy in Athens	Plato	78%
Student of the above, created a vast empire divided after his death	Alexander the Great	76%
Philosopher who died from drinking hemlock	Socrates	76%
Greece was occupied by this country from 1941 to 1945 during World War II	Germany	73%
The first modern version of these games was held in Athens in 1896	Olympic Games	73%
480 BC battle in which 300 Spartans led by Leonidas were killed	Battle of Thermopylae	71%
Student of the above, pioneer of scientific examination	Aristotle	69%
Greek became the official language of this successor state to Rome	Byzantine Empire	63%
Father of history famous for his accounts of the Persian Wars	Herodotus	63%
Greece won a 1940-1941 war against this country	Italy	63%
Father of medicine famous for his oath, the ethnic guideline of modern doctors	Hippocrates	61%
The above was suppressed by this Persian king, who invaded Greece	Darius the Great	57%
Christ apostle credited with bringing Christianity to Greece	Paul the Apostle	57%
431-404 BC war in which Sparta won and Athens lost	Peloponnesian War	57%
In 2002, Greece adopted the Euro that replaced this traditional currency	Greek Drachma	55%
A 1919-1922 war led to the independence of this neighboring country in 1923	Turkey	55%
480 BC battle in which Greeks destroyed the Persian naval fleet	Battle of Salamis	49%
British romantic poet who died fighting for Greek independence in 1824	Lord Byron	49%
Athenian statesman who oversaw construction of the Acropolis	Pericles	43%
1944-1949 war in which the Hellenic army defeated the communists	Greek Civil War	39%
6.4-kilometer-long canal, completed in 1893, that cut through an isthmus	Corinth Canal	35%
1821-1832 war in which Greece gained its independence	Greek War of Independence	35%
Peloponnesian civilization in which the Greek language developed	Mycenaean Civilization	29%
Confederacy of Greek city-states led by Athens against Persia	Delian League	24%
1967-1974 period in which Greece was ruled by a right-wing dictatorship	Greek Junta	24%
1100-800 BC period in Greek history in which old settlements were abandoned	Greek Dark Ages	22%
800-480 BC period in Greek history in which city-states ("polis") emerged	Archaic Greece	18%
"Ethnarch" who expanded Greece in area and won World War I	Eleftherios Venizelos	18%
Dictator who led most of the above period	Georgios Papadopoulos	16%
499-493 BC revolt of Greek city-states in Asia Minor against Persia	Ionian Revolt	16%
Greece suffered from this crisis as an aftermath of the 2008 Financial Crisis	Government Debt Crisis	14%
Series of wars after which the Roman Empire conquered Greece	Macedonian Wars	14%
470 BC battle after which Persian conquest stopped	Battle of Plataea	12%
Philosopher of this period who predicted an eclipse	Thales of Miletus	12%
Greek patriot and general who won the 1822 Battle of Dervenakia	Theodoros Kolokotronis	12%
Statesman of this period who formulated Athenian democracy	Cleisthenes	10%
Term for mountain-dwelling rebels that harass authorities of the above empire	Klephts	10%
1827 battle in which the British, Russian and French defeated Turkish navy	Battle of Navarino	8%
Prime Minister who modernized Greece and declared bankruptcy in 1893	Charilaos Trikoupis	6%
Leader of the Metapolitefsi who restored democracy in Greece	Konstantinos Karamanlis	6%
500-300 BC period in Greek history known by Athenian and Spartan rivalry	Classical Greece	2%
Writer who became Greece's first freedom fighter and was martyred in 1798	Rigas Feraios	2%
Humanist scholar who revived classicism and inspired independence struggle	Adamantios Korais	0%
Bishop who led revolts and was flayed alive in 1611	Dionysios Skylosophos	0%

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