UnScramble this Word: a a p n i o t l?

Questions

At funerals in ancient ------, when the lid of the coffin was closed, mourners took a few steps backward lest their shadows get caught in the box.?

At the height of its power, in 400 B.C., the Greek city of ------ had 25,000 citizens and 500,000 slaves.?

At the height of the teddy bear's huge popularity in the early 1900s, there is record of one Michigan priest who publicly denounced the teddy as an insidious weapon. He claimed that the stuffed toy would lead to the destruction of the instincts of ------------ and eventual racial suicide.?

At the outbreak of World War I, the American ----------- consisted of only fifty men.?

Before the Chinese take-over of Tibet in 1952, 25 percent of the males in the country were --------------------?