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title: Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · History
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 11 «Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta» of the history course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta

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The 15 questions of lesson 11 «Ancient Greece: city-states, Athens and Sparta» of the history course of Mova's primary school with their options, 80 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/t1/) — bro watched 300 and says only 300 guys fought at Thermopylae. right? — wrong ✗
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/t2/) — Your mate says the wooden horse of Troy is proven history. What is fair to say? — right ✓
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/t3/) — If Greece were one flat plain, what might have been different? — wrong ✗
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/t4/) — Two city-states argue a lot but a Persian army comes. What did the Greeks often do? — right ✓
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/t5/) — Why did Sparta need the helots? — wrong ✗
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/t6/) — Why would Athens want a strong navy? — wrong ✗
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/t7/) — The Marathon runner story. What do historians say? — right ✓
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/t8/) — Minotaur in my game, half bull half man. Real or nah? — wrong ✗
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/t9/) — Spartan girls did sports too. Why? — wrong ✗
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/t10/) — Which city would a sailor, an artist and a thinker most like to live in? — wrong ✗
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/t11/) — Why could a narrow pass help a small army against a huge one? — right ✓
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/e1/) — Identify the principal reason for which ancient Greece consisted of numerous independent city-states rather than a unified realm. — right ✓ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/e2/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the battle of Thermopylae in 480 BC. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/e3/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the contrast between Athens and Sparta? — right ✓ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/11-ancient-greece-city-states-athens-and-sparta/e4/) — Ascertain the status of the helots within Spartan society. — wrong ✗ · exam

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