Statistics for History of Greece

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
the first king of Greece, originally from Bavaria	Otto	94%
author of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey"	Homer	91%
Greece was at war with this country right after the end of WWI	Turkey	91%
student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great	Aristotle	88%
the empire ruling Greece after the fall of Constantinople (1453)	Ottoman Empire	88%
Civilization existing in Crete from 3000 to 1450 BC	Minoan	84%
Greeks' opponents at the battle of Salamis	Achaemenid Empire	78%
great war between Sparta and Athens	Peloponnesian War	75%
"The Father of History"	Herodotus	69%
"The Father of Geometry"	Euclid	66%
"The Father of Medicine"	Hippocrates	59%
Capital of the above	Knossos	38%
the country ruling Greece for most of the Middle Ages	Byzantine Empire	31%
First civilization in mainland Greece (1600–1100 BC)	Mycenaean	31%
another arachaic poet, author of the "Works and Days"	Hesiod	25%
name for the people who invaded Greece (and then Egypt) abou 1000 BC	Sea People	25%
Latin Peloponnesian state existing from 1205 to 1432	Principality of Achaea	19%
school of philosophy founded in Athens by the above	Lyceum	16%
first capital after independence (1828–1829)	Aegina	3%
colloquial name for the period of the dictatorship (1967–1974)	Regime of the Colonels	3%