History Quiz - Ancient Greek Inventions (Answers)
In KS2 history children will look at the culture of Ancient Greece. One aspect of this is the Ancient Greek inventions and customs that are still in use today.
Ancient Greek inventions were new devices from around 2,500 years ago. Some of their ideas and inventions are still in use today. Did you know that the watermill was invented by Greek engineers somewhere between the 3rd and 1st century BC? Or that democracy began in ancient Athens? Or that theatre has its origins in Ancient Greece? Ancient Greek customs are still with us too. The Olympics began 2,500 years ago in Ancient Olympia in Greece and it was revived as the modern Olympic Games in the 19th Century.
How much do you know about Ancient Greek Inventions and customs still in use today? Play this quiz to find out.
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You can find more about this topic by visiting BBC Bitesize - What did the ancient Greeks discover?
The games were held to honour the King of the Greek gods and they were banned in 394 AD when the Roman Emperor wanted to impose Christianity as the state religion
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Zeus was the king of the gods
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Alpha and Beta are the first two letters of the Greek alphabet
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The Greek plays were either comedy (funny) or tragedy (sad and serious)
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Rococo came in the 18th Century - 2,000 years later!
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Greek columns were copied by the Romans and Europeans in the 18th and 19th centuries
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Pythagoras worked out new formulas for mathematics - which you will learn at secondary school!
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Athens was the first democracy in 500 BC
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The juries in Ancient Greece would put a disc in one of two jars - one for guilty and one for not guilty
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Archimedes also invented a heat ray which was used to burn enemy ships by focussing the light of the sun on them!
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