Monday, 29 August 2011

Mr. Turra Fact or Fiction Week 6

1. Ancient Greece's main enemy was Persia.

2. At the Battle of Marathon an army of 20,000 Greek soldiers defeated and army of 40,000 Persians led by King Darius.

3. Greek women used to wear a long chiton called a tunic.

4. Greek matresses could be stuffed with things like wool, feathers or dry grass.

Lillan wk 6 fact or fiction

Hi Jaimee

1. T/F young girls get married to men in their 50's?
2.T/F the young girl didnt know that they were geting marriend until the dowry?
3.T/F children were considered youths until age 20?
4.T/F children played with yoyo's?

from lillian

Amelia Fact or Fiction Week 6 :) To Cassidy

1. In Athens the father decided who and when their daughters would marry.
2. Spartan women had to hunt and gather their own food.
3. Athenian women were the only people allowed to play arts in a play.
4. Alexander the Great won every battle he ever entered but nearly died fighting in India.

Maddy - fact or fiction week 6

1.were the ancient athenians the first people to develop democracy?

2.did ancient greeks eat dinner while lying on their sides?

3.did the hellenistic period mark the end of the wars 0f alexander the great?

4.slaves were not allowed to have families and own properties?

Brayden-Fact or fiction week 6

To Aleisha

1. what year was Pericles born in?

2.Is our democracy the same to the democraft they had in ancient Greece?

3.Did one of the kings of Sparta "Leonitas" take 300 Spartan soliders to war with Athens?

4.Did alexander the great name a lot of the cities he concered Athens?

Tyler Week 6 fact or fiction questions



Hey Connor! :)

1. This is aristotle.

2. Sparta won the war againts Athens.

3. Sparta was 1300 km long.

4. 120 people were in Spartas war.

Jess Fact or Fiction week 6 - To Emily

Hey Emily

1. Athenian girls got married in there teens?

2. Spartan boys went to army at the age of 7?

3. Athenian women were aloud to vote in democracty.

4. Alexander the Great become king agt the age of 18.

Eliza Fact or Fiction week 6 :)



Hello Jaimee,







  1. In Sparta when the women arev 18-20 they undergo a fitness test and if they pass they are give a husband.



  2. <- 2. This is Socraties.




3. The Greek god Artemis had a twin sister who was also a god called Hera.


4. Men in Sparta stayed in military training and service until they are the age of 65.

Emily Week 6 - Fact or Fiction

Heyy Jess,

1. In 520 BC, Athens created the first democratic government.

2. Men had a much better life in Athens the women did.

3. Women who lived in Athens had alot more freedom than the women that lived in Sparta.

4. Socrates was a Greek, Athenian philosipher.

(Aleisha) fact or fiction week 6 to Brayden



hello Brayden-

1. Pericles nearly dies in battle with Italy, but then died after he got home ftrom the battle,so he died just before the plague came.


2. This was Alexanders Empire

3. Aristotle spent 20 years studying at Platos Academy

4. to the Greeks it was known as Heracles but not to the Romans he was known as Hercules

By Aleisha

Cass week 6 fact or fiction

heyy Amelia,



  1. The first Olympic Games was held in 776 BC in Olympia.


  2. In Sparta strong babies were put outside to die.


  3. Most girls got married in their early teens to men twice their age.


  4. Most ancient Greek belived sickness was a punishment from the gods.

Tuesday, 16 August 2011

Cass. Fact or Fiction? Week 4

1. The Greeks had three to four meals each day.




2. The Greeks way of life is based around friends and school life.




3. Their alphabet has 23 letters.




4. The most spectacular Olympic event was chariot racing.


Monday, 15 August 2011

Mr. Turra Fact or Fiction Wk 4

1. Alexander the Great became King at the age of 21.

2. The Olympic games were created to honour of the King and Queen of Greece.

3. Plato, Aristotle and Socrates are Ancient Greek philosophers.

4. King Phillip the First was Alexander the Great's father.

Amelia Fact or Fiction Week 4 :)

1. Socrates died from the plague.
2. There were over 1500 city states in Ancient Greece.
3. The first Olympic Games were held in 776bc
4. Pericles was actually not only a name held by the ruler of Athens but it was also a very popular name for baby boys.




lillian fact or fiction wk 4





Hi Jess


1.T/F The Greeks invented contests in honour of the Gods.

2.T/F Alexander the Great was born in 356 bc.


3.T/F Archamedes was born in 287 bc.


4.T/F Archamedes was schooled in Alexandria.

Jess- fact or Ficton Week 4

1. Was the first Olympic games were held around 775 BC?

2. Did Sparta win the war against Athens?

3. Was Athens and Sparta the most powerful states?

4. This this Socrates.







Jaimee- fact or fiction questions week 4

hello,
These are my fact or fiction questions,
1. Athens is the largest capital city in Greece.
2. Sparta was special for its social system and constitution.
3. There is a city called Chelsey in Greece.
4. Alexander the Greats real name is Alex.

To Madeline- week 4 Fact or fiction From Tyler








1. This is Aristotle.


2. Alexander The Great become a king at the age of 21.


3. Ancient Greece was discovered in 1800 BC.


4. Alexanders teachers name was Aristotle.

fact or fiction Aleisha Week 4 :D

To Amelia,
1. King phillip I, was Alexander the Greats Father.
2.King Phillip was a Macedonian hostage living in Thebes During his late 30's.
3.Aristotle studied Philosophy with Plato at his academy.
4.Alexander the great set a war to rule the Empire Macedon.

Emily - Fact or Fiction, Week 4

1. Alexander the Great became king at the age of 20.
2. The first olympic games were held in Greece almost 2000 years ago.
3. The Minoans were skilled architects and buit beautiful palaces.
4. Socrates wanted to lead Athens to greatness.

Brodie Fact or Fiction Task week 4

To Brayden

1. Athens went to war with Sparta for 10 years.

2. Alexander the Great became King when he was 26.

3. Their was over 1,500 Greek City States.

4. Socrates was sentenced to death by the Athenian Government.

Eliza - Fact or Fiction week 4


  1. Alexander the Great's mother killed Alexanders father.

  2. Perciles was blamed for defeat in war then waes killed by drinking poison.

  3. The greece people were nearly all wiped out by a plague.

  4. Greek women got married in their teens and usually got married to a man in their 30's.

Connor- Fact or Fiction week 4

1. In Athens the education was left up to the father.
2. The Greeks built the Temple of Apollo at Didyma, Turkey about 300 BC.
3. Alexander the great was the strongest person to live in greece.
4. Spartas navy was weaker than Athens navy.

fact or fiction questions-maddy

1. alexander the great named a place in india after his pet horse that died.





2.alexander the great had three wives. they were Roxane, Statiera and Parysatis.





3. alexander the great was born in january. it was supposed to give alexander good luck because he was born in the first month of the year.





4. Alexander’s horse, Bucephalus was afraid of its own shadow.






Monday, 8 August 2011

Brayden-fact or fiction week 4

1.What year did pericles die and what were the effects of his death?

2.What did you need to do to not be killed in Sparta?

3.Is the computer disease called "Trojan horse" named after the Tojan war in Greece?

4.Was Alexander the great Percies the 2nd son?

Cass. Fact or Fiction? Week 2


  1. Alexander the Great died at the age of 32.

  2. The Ancient Olympic Games wre held at Olympia, in the city-state of Elis.

  3. Member of todays Greek army are trained to keep fit.

  4. Greek people never ate meat unless it has been sacrifced to a god or been hunted in the wild.

Monday, 1 August 2011

Lillian-fact or fiction wk2

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2.T/F Greece is roughly the size of Alabalma.

3.T/F 7% of all marble in the world comes from greece.

4.T/F Greece has more archaeological museums than any other contry in the world.




Emily - Fact or Fiction, Week 2

1. Alexander the Great died at the age of 32.
2. Alexander the Great died of a fever after a long session of eating and drinking.
3. The civilisation of Ancient Greece sprang from two cultures called the Minoans and the Dorians.
4. Early Greek burials were marked above ground by a large peice of pottery.

Amelia - Fact or Fiction? Week 2

1- Ancient Greeks slept in baskets until they are seven years of age.

2 - Ancient Greeks ate 3 to 4 meals a day.

3 - Women in Ancient Greece wore only a square piece of cloth, it was pinned together.

4 - Ancient Greeks invented hopscotch.

Jess - Fact or Fiction Week 2

1. Is Zeus the god of heaven.
2. Did ancient Greece have 100 city states.
3. The Olympics were originally a religious festival.
4. Is Athens the largest city in Greece?

Brayden-fact or fiction-week 2

1.Did Sparta go to war with athens?

2.is Patheron located in Sparta

3.Did 300 Spartans invade Athens

4.Was Alexander the greats mother names Olympus?

Eliza- Fact or Fiction Week 2

1. Sparta was surrounded by mountains to protect it from invasions.


2. This is the Greek god Zeus. The Olympics were made in his honour.















3. Alexander the Great died of a mosquito bite.



4. The Ancient Greeks never consumed raw milk it had to be made into cheese or cottage cheese.

Tyler- fact or fiction questions week 2





1. Is this Alexander The Great?



2. Were there only 13,00 people living in Ancient Greece?


3. Is modern Greece bigger than Ancient Greece?

4.Were the Ancient Greek people the first to have a democratic government?

Connor- Fact of fiction week 2

Zues had a giant statue carved of him and it was made of gold.

Alexander the great had 30,000 soldiers.

Supper was the main meal of each day in ancient greece.

If there was a war on at the time of the olympics the war would be stopped until they were over.

Aleisha week 2 :)

To Lillian, Fact or Fiction?


1. Parthenon is a goddess that once lived in Athenia in 600bc and died in 540bc.


2.Socrates helped lay the foundation of western philosiphy, and was the first of three great philosophers.


3.Socrates was Platos uncle and Plato had an advantage of extra time of learning Philosophy with his uncle and after Socrates died he left everything for his nephew Plato.


4.The Romans conquered Greece in 146bc and after that they absorbed all of the culture of the Greece after it was lost.

Jaimee- Fact or Fiction week 2


Hello,
These are my true and fulse questions-

1. Alexandra the Great died at 32?
2.In 1100BC the Dorians invaded Greece?



3.A town called Sasha is in Greece?
4.The Greek language has been in use since prehistoric times?




Madeline - fact or fiction week 2

  1. Did the ancient Greeks call their currency Bala?
  2. Were the ancient Greeks the first people to use vowels in their alphabet?
  3. Did the ancient Greeks called the Earth Gaia and the sun Uranos?
  4. Did Greek athletes excersise and do sports with no clothes on?

Brodie - Fact or Fiction - Week 2

1. Did Alexandra the Great die at the age of 32?

2. Were the first ever Olympic games held in 776 BC in Olympia?

3. Are the first two letters of the Greek alphabet Alpha and Beta?

4. Is the Greek philosopher Thales believed to be the first philosopher?

Mr. Turra - Fact or Fiction week 2

1. Greece is to the right of Italy on the world map.
2. The Parthenon was a temple built in hounor of the god Zeus.
3. The sports wear company Nike got its name from the winged goddess of victory - Nike from ancient Greece and the 'Swoosh' logo is a representation of the wings.
4. Greece is a very flat country with very few mountain ranges.