Chap 5 Quiz from Text Flashcards
The Minoans and the Mycenaeans built advanced civilizations based on ____________ around the Aegean Sea.
Trade
Which of the following did not contribute to the fall of the Mycenaeans: the Trojan War, famines, collapse of trade, invasions, or war between Mycenaean cities?
Trojan War
The ________,or city-state, was the center of daily life and culture for ancient Greeks.
Polis
_______ was one of the mightiest city-states in Greece, and life there was based on war.
Sparta
Much of what historians know about early Greece comes from studying ___________ , stories told to explain natural phenomena or events of the distant past.
Myths
To honor the gods, athletes from the various city-states met once every four years to compete in the __________
Olympics
While Greek heroes killed monsters, founded cities, and talked with the gods, their ___________ , or great pride, could bring them to a tragic end.
Hubris
Who was the goddess of agriculture?
Demeter
Which of the following statements concerning the development of democracy is not true?
Athens was the birthplace of democracy.
Draco tried to end conflict between the rich and the poor by enacting harsh laws.
Peisistratus created 10 tribes to serve as the basis for election and created the Council of 500.
Solon allowed all men to take place in the assembly that governed Athens.
Peisistratus created 10 tribes to serve as the basis for election and created the Council of 500.
Which of the following statements concerning Athenian democracy is not true?
Athenian democracy was a direct democracy.
People who were allowed to participate in government were expected to serve in the military during war.
Women and immigrants were allowed to vote.
Athens’ chief of state was called the archon.
Women and immigrants were allowed to vote.
What was the cause of the Persian Wars?
Daruis ordered the Persia to invade Greece.
The Greeks of Ionia, modern-day Turkey, wanted independence and rebelled against Persia.
Sparta invaded Greece.
The city-states united to invade Persia.
The Greeks of Ionia, modern-day Turkey, wanted independence and rebelled against Persia.
Which of the following was not a Persian War battle?
Thermopylae
Marathon
Sardis
Salamis
Sardis
.Which of the following was not a result of the Battle of Salamis?
Xerxes signed the Treaty of Salamis.
The Persian navy was destroyed.
The Persian army was cut off from supplies and demoralized.
The Persian army was stuck in Greece.
Xerxes signed the Treaty of Salamis.
Who led the Delian League?
Sparta
Persia
Athens
Plutarch
Athens
Which of the following statements concerning Pericles is not true?
Pericles was the most influential politician in Athens during its Golden Age.
Pericles was a champion of democracy.
Pericles commissioned the building of the Parthenon.
Pericles died during a conflict with Sparta.
Pericles died during a conflict with Sparta.
Which of the following was not a result of the Peloponnesian War?
Athens lost its navy and most of its army.
Sparta became the supreme power in Greece.
All of Greece was conquered by Persia.
Athens’ government was replaced by an oligarchy.
All of Greece was conquered by Persia.
the process of using what you know to infer new facts
Logic
a philosopher who believed that people could learn best by asking questions
Socrates
a philosopher who thought that every material object in the world was only the reflection of a perfect ideal
Plato
a philosopher who believed that the greatest good people could do was to practice rational thought
Aristotle
a poet who wrote epic poems that eventually became the basis for the Greek education system
Homer
historian who used primary sources and analyzed his sources critically
Thucydides
wrote tragic plays that described the suffering that people brought upon themselves
Sophocles
the massive temple to Athena that demonstrates the Athenian love of visual beauty
Parthenon
True or False
Alexander the Great conquered the Persian empire.
True
True or False?
The Egyptians despised Alexander and worked with Phoenicia and Persia to keep Alexander out of Africa.
False
True or False
Alexandria, a city in Egypt, became a center of culture and learning.
True
True or False
Women had more rights during the Hellenistic period
True
True or False
Emphasizing reason, self-discipline, emotional control, and personal morality, Stoics believed that people should find their proper role in society and strive to fulfill that role.
True
True or False
Archimedes formulated many of the basic ideas for geometry
False
True or False
Love stories became a popular form of literature during the Hellenistic period
True
True or False
Eratosthenes calculated the size of the world by using careful observations and simple geometry.
True
