praj-17/QA-MCQ-Open-ended huggingface dataset:
Title: Greece
Context: Greece has one of the longest histories of any country, and is considered the cradle of Western civilization, and as such, is the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, the Olympic Games, Western literature, historiography, political science, major scientific and mathematical principles, and Western drama, including both tragedy and comedy. Greece was first unified under Philip of Macedon in the fourth century BC. His son Alexander the Great rapidly conquered much of the ancient world, spreading Greek culture and science from the eastern Mediterranean to the Indus River. Annexed by Rome in the second century BC, Greece became an integral part of the Roman Empire and its successor, the Byzantine Empire. The first century AD saw the establishment of the Greek Orthodox Church, which shaped the modern Greek identity and transmitted Greek traditions to the wider Orthodox World. Falling under Ottoman dominion in the mid-15th century, the modern nation state of Greece emerged in 1830 following the war of independence. Greece's rich historical legacy is reflected in large part by its 17 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, among the most in Europe and the world.

question: Who was the first person to bring all of Greece together? 

answer: Philip of Macedon

question: Who was the son of Philip of Macedon? 

answer: Alexander the Great

question: Greece came part of what empire in the 2nd century BC? 

answer: Rome

question: When was the Greek Orthodox Church started? 

answer: first century AD

question: What year is considered the beginning of modern Greece? 

answer: 1830
Title: Greece
Context: Greece is a democratic and developed country with an advanced high-income economy, a high quality of life and a very high standard of living. A founding member of the United Nations, Greece was the tenth member to join the European Communities (precursor to the European Union) and has been part of the Eurozone since 2001. It is also a member of numerous other international institutions, including the Council of Europe, NATO,[a] OECD, OIF, OSCE and the WTO. Greece, which is one of the world's largest shipping powers, middle powers and top tourist destinations, has the largest economy in the Balkans, where it is an important regional investor.

question: Greece is one of the members who founded what organization? 

answer: United Nations

question: Which political philosophy does Greece follow? 

answer: democratic

question: When did Greece join the Eurozone? 

answer: 2001

question: Greece has the biggest economic power where? 

answer: Balkans
Title: Greece
Context: The names for the nation of Greece and the Greek people differ from the names used in other languages, locations and cultures. Although the Greeks call the country Hellas or Ellada (Greek: Ἑλλάς or Ελλάδα) and its official name is the Hellenic Republic, in English it is referred to as Greece, which comes from the Latin term Graecia as used by the Romans, which literally means 'the land of the Greeks', and derives from the Greek name Γραικός. However, the name Hellas is sometimes used in English as well.

question: What is one of the names the Greeks call their country? 

answer: Hellas

question: What is the official name of Greece? 

answer: Hellenic Republic

question: From what word is Greece derived? 

answer: Graecia

question: What does the work Graecia mean? 

answer: the land of the Greeks

question: Who called Greece Graecia? 

answer: Romans
Title: Greece
Context: The earliest evidence of the presence of human ancestors in the southern Balkans, dated to 270,000 BC, is to be found in the Petralona cave, in the Greek province of Macedonia. All three stages of the stone age (Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic) are represented in Greece, for example in the Franchthi Cave. Neolithic settlements in Greece, dating from the 7th millennium BC, are the oldest in Europe by several centuries, as Greece lies on the route via which farming spread from the Near East to Europe.

question: Humans in the Balkans have been dated to what year? 

answer: 270,000 BC

question: Evidence of the earliest humans were found in what subterranean formation? 

answer: Petralona cave

question: The Franchthi cave has evidence of what 3 ancient eras? 

answer: Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic

question: Greece has evidence of Stone Age people during what time period? 

answer: 7th millennium BC

question: What activity led to Greece having some of the earliest Stone Age settlements? 

answer: farming
Title: Greece
Context: Greece is home to the first advanced civilizations in Europe and is considered the birthplace of Western civilization,[citation clutter] beginning with the Cycladic civilization on the islands of the Aegean Sea at around 3200 BC, the Minoan civilization in Crete (2700–1500 BC), and then the Mycenaean civilization on the mainland (1900–1100 BC). These civilizations possessed writing, the Minoans writing in an undeciphered script known as Linear A, and the Mycenaeans in Linear B, an early form of Greek. The Mycenaeans gradually absorbed the Minoans, but collapsed violently around 1200 BC, during a time of regional upheaval known as the Bronze Age collapse. This ushered in a period known as the Greek Dark Ages, from which written records are absent.

question: Ancient Greece is considered to be where what was born? 

answer: Western civilization

question: What was the last civilization to rule Greece? 

answer: Mycenaean

question: The Mycenaean civilization deteriorated in what time period?  

answer: 1200 BC

question: Around 1200 BC, what was the fall of the regional civilizations called? 

answer: Bronze Age collapse

question: What is the time period called from which no writing can be found. 

answer: Greek Dark Ages
Title: Greece
Context: The end of the Dark Ages is traditionally dated to 776 BC, the year of the first Olympic Games. The Iliad and the Odyssey, the foundational texts of Western literature, are believed to have been composed by Homer in the 8th or 7th centuries BC With the end of the Dark Ages, there emerged various kingdoms and city-states across the Greek peninsula, which spread to the shores of the Black Sea, Southern Italy (Latin: Magna Graecia, or Greater Greece) and Asia Minor. These states and their colonies reached great levels of prosperity that resulted in an unprecedented cultural boom, that of classical Greece, expressed in architecture, drama, science, mathematics and philosophy. In 508 BC, Cleisthenes instituted the world's first democratic system of government in Athens.

question: When did the Olympic Game begin? 

answer: 776 BC

question: The literary work "The Odyssey:, was written by whom? 

answer: Homer

question: What year is considered the be the last of the Dark Ages? 

answer: 776 BC

question: Magna Graecia is Latin for what term? 

answer: Greater Greece

question: In what year is Democracy considered to have begun? 

answer: 508 BC
Title: Greece
Context: By 500 BC, the Persian Empire controlled the Greek city states in Asia Minor and had made territorial gains in the Balkans and Eastern Europe proper as well. Attempts by some of the Greek city-states of Asia Minor to overthrow Persian rule failed, and Persia invaded the states of mainland Greece in 492 BC, but was forced to withdraw after a defeat at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC. A second invasion by the Persians followed in 480 BC. Despite a heroic resistance at Thermopylae by Spartans and other Greeks led by King Leonidas, and a simultaneous naval engagement at Artemisium,[page needed] Persian forces occupied Athens, which had been evacuated in time, as well as briefly overrunning half of Greece. Following decisive Greek victories in 480 and 479 BC at Salamis, Plataea, and Mycale, the Persians were forced to withdraw for a second time, marking their eventual withdrawal from all of their European territories. Led by Athens and Sparta, the Greek victories in the Greco-Persian Wars are considered a pivotal moment in world history, as the 50 years of peace that followed are known as Golden Age of Athens, the seminal period of ancient Greece that laid many of the foundations of Western civilization.

question: In 500 BC, Greece was ruled over by who? 

answer: Persian Empire

question: What battle did Persia lose in 490 BC? 

answer: Battle of Marathon

question: The Spartans made their last stand at what battle location? 

answer: Thermopylae

question: The battles between the Greeks and Persians are known as what? 

answer: Greco-Persian Wars

question: After the Persians left Europe, the time period that followed was called what? 

answer: Golden Age of Athens
Title: Greece
Context: Lack of political unity within Greece resulted in frequent conflict between Greek states. The most devastating intra-Greek war was the Peloponnesian War (431–404 BC), won by Sparta and marking the demise of the Athenian Empire as the leading power in ancient Greece. Both Athens and Sparta were later overshadowed by Thebes and eventually Macedon, with the latter uniting the Greek world in the League of Corinth (also known as the Hellenic League or Greek League) under the guidance of Phillip II, who was elected leader of the first unified Greek state in history.

question: The war from 431-404 BC is known as what?  

answer: Peloponnesian War

question: What often caused strife between Greek states? 

answer: Lack of political unity

question: Who won the Peloponnesian war? 

answer: Sparta

question: Who eventually brought the Greeks together? 

answer: Macedon

question: Who was the first leader of a unified Greece? 

answer: Phillip II
Title: Greece
Context: After a period of confusion following Alexander's death, the Antigonid dynasty, descended from one of Alexander's generals, established its control over Macedon and most of the Greek city-states by 276 BC. From about 200 BC the Roman Republic became increasingly involved in Greek affairs and engaged in a series of wars with Macedon. Macedon's defeat at the Battle of Pydna in 168 BC signalled the end of Antigonid power in Greece. In 146 BC Macedonia was annexed as a province by Rome, and the rest of Greece became a Roman protectorate.

question: Who controlled Macedon after Alexander died? 

answer: the Antigonid dynasty

question: The Roman Empire became more controlling of Greece starting in what year? 

answer: 200 BC

question: Macedon lost what war in 168 BC? 

answer: Battle of Pydna

question: In what year did Greece become a part of Rome? 

answer: 146 BC

question: The end of Antigonid rule began in what year? 

answer: 168 BC
Title: Greece
Context: The process was completed in 27 BC when the Roman Emperor Augustus annexed the rest of Greece and constituted it as the senatorial province of Achaea. Despite their military superiority, the Romans admired and became heavily influenced by the achievements of Greek culture, hence Horace's famous statement: Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit ("Greece, although captured, took its wild conqueror captive"). The epics of Homer inspired the Aeneid of Virgil, and authors such as Seneca the younger wrote using Greek styles. Roman heroes such as Scipio Africanus, tended to study philosophy and regarded Greek culture and science as an example to be followed. Similarly, most Roman emperors maintained an admiration for things Greek in nature. The Roman Emperor Nero visited Greece in AD 66, and performed at the Ancient Olympic Games, despite the rules against non-Greek participation. Hadrian was also particularly fond of the Greeks; before he became emperor he served as an eponymous archon of Athens.

question: What Roman Emperor became the ruler of all of Greece? 

answer: Augustus

question: What saying by Horace became famous? 

answer: "Greece, although captured, took its wild conqueror captive"

question: What famous Roman figure visited Greece in 66 AD? 

answer: Nero

question: What famous Grecian author inspired later authors and their works? 

answer: Homer

question: What hero of Rome studied Greek philosophy and science? 

answer: Scipio Africanus
Title: Greece
Context: Greek-speaking communities of the Hellenized East were instrumental in the spread of early Christianity in the 2nd and 3rd centuries, and Christianity's early leaders and writers (notably St Paul) were mostly Greek-speaking, though generally not from Greece itself. The New Testament was written in Greek, and some of its sections (Corinthians, Thessalonians, Philippians, Revelation of St. John of Patmos) attest to the importance of churches in Greece in early Christianity. Nevertheless, much of Greece clung tenaciously to paganism, and ancient Greek religious practices were still in vogue in the late 4th century AD, when they were outlawed by the Roman emperor Theodosius I in 391-392. The last recorded Olympic games were held in 393, and many temples were destroyed or damaged in the century that followed. In Athens and rural areas, paganism is attested well into the sixth century AD and even later. The closure of the Neoplatonic Academy of Athens by the emperor Justinian in 529 is considered by many to mark the end of antiquity, although there is evidence that the Academy continued its activities for some time after that. Some remote areas such as the southeastern Peloponnese remained pagan until well into the 10th century AD.

question: In what language was the first book of the Bible conceived? 

answer: Greek

question: What religion did early Greece practice? 

answer: paganism

question: The Olympics were last held in ancient Greece in what year?  

answer: 393

question: Paganism was forbidden by what Roman Emperor? 

answer: Theodosius I

question: Which Emperor closed the school in Athens? 

answer: Justinian
Title: Greece
Context: From the 4th century, the Empire's Balkan territories, including Greece, suffered from the dislocation of the Barbarian Invasions. The raids and devastation of the Goths and Huns in the 4th and 5th centuries and the Slavic invasion of Greece in the 7th century resulted in a dramatic collapse in imperial authority in the Greek peninsula. Following the Slavic invasion, the imperial government retained formal control of only the islands and coastal areas, particularly the densely populated walled cities such as Athens, Corinth and Thessalonica, while some mountainous areas in the interior held out on their own and continued to recognize imperial authority. Outside of these areas, a limited amount of Slavic settlement is generally thought to have occurred, although on a much smaller scale than previously thought.

question: When did the Slavs invade Greece? 

answer: 7th century

question: What invading marauders caused havoc in the Balkans during the 4th century. 

answer: Barbarian

question: After the Slav's invaded, the government only controlled what areas? 

answer: islands and coastal areas
Title: Greece
Context: The Byzantine recovery of lost provinces began toward the end of the 8th century and most of the Greek peninsula came under imperial control again, in stages, during the 9th century. This process was facilitated by a large influx of Greeks from Sicily and Asia Minor to the Greek peninsula, while at the same time many Slavs were captured and re-settled in Asia Minor and those that remained were assimilated. During the 11th and 12th centuries the return of stability resulted in the Greek peninsula benefiting from strong economic growth – much stronger than that of the Anatolian territories of the Empire.

question: The Byzantine began taking back territories during the last of what century? 

answer: 8th

question: The Byzantine had control over most of Greece in what century? 

answer: 9th

question: Slavs that were caught were moved to what area? 

answer: Asia Minor

question: A stable Greece allowed it to have what? 

answer: strong economic growth
Title: Greece
Context: Following the Fourth Crusade and the fall of Constantinople to the "Latins" in 1204 mainland Greece was split between the Greek Despotate of Epirus (a Byzantine successor state) and Frankish rule (known as the Frankokratia), while some islands came under Venetian rule. The re-establishment of the Byzantine imperial capital in Constantinople in 1261 was accompanied by the empire's recovery of much of the Greek peninsula, although the Frankish Principality of Achaea in the Peloponnese and the rival Greek Despotate of Epirus in the north both remained important regional powers into the 14th century, while the islands remained largely under Genoese and Venetian control.

question: Greece was split into sections of different rulers in what year? 

answer: 1204

question: Constantinople once again became a capital  in what year? 

answer: 1261

question: The Grecian islands in the 14th century were under the control of who? 

answer: Genoese and Venetian

question: In 1261 Constantinople was the capital for which empire? 

answer: Byzantine
Title: Greece
Context: In the 14th century, much of the Greek peninsula was lost by the Byzantine Empire at first to the Serbs and then to the Ottomans. By the beginning of the 15th century, the Ottoman advance meant that Byzantine territory in Greece was limited mainly to its then-largest city, Thessaloniki, and the Peloponnese (Despotate of the Morea). After the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453, the Morea was the last remnant of the Byzantine Empire to hold out against the Ottomans. However, this, too, fell to the Ottomans in 1460, completing the Ottoman conquest of mainland Greece. With the Turkish conquest, many Byzantine Greek scholars, who up until then were largely responsible for preserving Classical Greek knowledge, fled to the West, taking with them a large body of literature and thereby significantly contributing to the Renaissance.

question: A lot of Greece was lost by whom in the 14th century? 

answer: Byzantine Empire

question: At the start of 15th century, the biggest Byzantine city was what? 

answer: Thessaloniki

question: Constantinople was overcome by who in 1453? 

answer: the Ottomans

question: The Ottomans controlled mainland Greece in what year? 

answer: 1460

question: Who had a large impact on the Renaissance?  

answer: Byzantine Greek scholars
Title: Greece
Context: While most of mainland Greece and the Aegean islands was under Ottoman control by the end of the 15th century, Cyprus and Crete remained Venetian territory and did not fall to the Ottomans until 1571 and 1670 respectively. The only part of the Greek-speaking world that escaped long-term Ottoman rule was the Ionian Islands, which remained Venetian until their capture by the First French Republic in 1797, then passed to the United Kingdom in 1809 until their unification with Greece in 1864.[page needed]

question: The Ottomans took which islands from the Venetians? 

answer: Cyprus and Crete

question: In what year were the Ionian Islands captured by the French? 

answer: 1797

question: Who gained control of the Ionian Islands in 1809? 

answer: United Kingdom

question: The Ottomans controlled what islands b y the end of the 15th century? 

answer: Aegean islands

question: The Venetians had control of which two islands in the 15th century? 

answer: Cyprus and Crete
Title: Greece
Context: The Greek Orthodox Church and the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople were considered by the Ottoman governments as the ruling authorities of the entire Orthodox Christian population of the Ottoman Empire, whether ethnically Greek or not. Although the Ottoman state did not force non-Muslims to convert to Islam, Christians faced several types of discrimination intended to highlight their inferior status in the Ottoman Empire. Discrimination against Christians, particularly when combined with harsh treatment by local Ottoman authorities, led to conversions to Islam, if only superficially. In the 19th century, many "crypto-Christians" returned to their old religious allegiance.[page needed]

question: Due to discrimination, some Christians converted to what religion? 

answer: Islam

question: What is the name of one of the churches that ruled over the Christian population? 

answer: Greek Orthodox Church

question: Which empire thought that Christians were inferior? 

answer: Ottoman Empire
Title: Greece
Context: When military conflicts broke out between the Ottoman Empire and other states, Greeks usually took arms against the Empire, with few exceptions. Prior to the Greek revolution, there had been a number of wars which saw Greeks fight against the Ottomans, such as the Greek participation in the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, the Epirus peasants' revolts of 1600–1601, the Morean War of 1684–1699, and the Russian-instigated Orlov Revolt in 1770, which aimed at breaking up the Ottoman Empire in favor of Russian interests.[page needed] These uprisings were put down by the Ottomans with great bloodshed.

question: The Battle of of Lepanto took place in what year? 

answer: 1571

question: The Morean War took place during which years? 

answer: 1684–1699

question: The Orlov Revolt took place in what year? 

answer: 1770

question: The Orlov Revolt was for which nation's supposed benefit? 

answer: Russian

question: During battles of the 1600 and 1700's, the Greeks usually fought against who? 

answer: Ottoman Empire
Title: Greece
Context: The 16th and 17th centuries are regarded as something of a "dark age" in Greek history, with the prospect of overthrowing Ottoman rule appearing remote with only the Ionian islands remaining free of Turkish domination. Corfu withstood three major sieges in 1537, 1571 and 1716 all of which resulted in the repulsion of the Ottomans. However, in the 18th century, there arose through shipping a wealthy and dispersed Greek merchant class. These merchants came to dominate trade within the Ottoman Empire, establishing communities throughout the Mediterranean, the Balkans, and Western Europe. Though the Ottoman conquest had cut Greece off from significant European intellectual movements such as the Reformation and the Enlightenment, these ideas together with the ideals of the French Revolution and romantic nationalism began to penetrate the Greek world via the mercantile diaspora.[page needed] In the late 18th century, Rigas Feraios, the first revolutionary to envision an independent Greek state, published a series of documents relating to Greek independence, including but not limited to a national anthem and the first detailed map of Greece, in Vienna, and was murdered by Ottoman agents in 1798.[page needed]

question: Greece's Dark Ages is thought of as what time periods? 

answer: 16th and 17th centuries

question: Greek merchants ruled the trade industry in which century? 

answer: 18th

question: Who published Greek documents that espoused Greek independence? 

answer: Rigas Feraios

question: Rigas Feraios was killed by Ottoman assassins in what year?  

answer: 1798
Title: Greece
Context: In 1814, a secret organization called the Filiki Eteria (Society of Friends) was founded with the aim of liberating Greece. The Filiki Eteria planned to launch revolution in the Peloponnese, the Danubian Principalities and Constantinople. The first of these revolts began on 6 March 1821 in the Danubian Principalities under the leadership of Alexandros Ypsilantis, but it was soon put down by the Ottomans. The events in the north spurred the Greeks of the Peloponnese into action and on 17 March 1821 the Maniots declared war on the Ottomans.

question: In which year did the Society of Friends begin? 

answer: 1814

question: The Society of Friends goal was what? 

answer: liberating Greece

question: The Society of Friends was also known by what name? 

answer: Filiki Eteria

question: The first of several revolutions began when? 

answer: 6 March 1821

question: War was started with the Ottomans when? 

answer: 17 March 1821