Chap 5 Quiz from Text

Question 1

The Minoans and the Mycenaeans built advanced civilizations based on ____________ around the Aegean Sea.

Answer 1

Trade

Question 2

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?

Answer 2

Trojan War

Question 3

The ________,or city-state, was the center of daily life and culture for ancient Greeks.

Answer 3

Polis

Question 4

_______ was one of the mightiest city-states in Greece, and life there was based on war.

Answer 4

Sparta

Question 5

Much of what historians know about early Greece comes from studying ___________ , stories told to explain natural phenomena or events of the distant past.

Answer 5

Myths

Question 6

To honor the gods, athletes from the various city-states met once every four years to compete in the __________

Answer 6

Olympics

Question 7

While Greek heroes killed monsters, founded cities, and talked with the gods, their ___________ , or great pride, could bring them to a tragic end.

Answer 7

Hubris

Question 8

Who was the goddess of agriculture?

Answer 8

Demeter

Question 9

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.

Answer 9

Peisistratus created 10 tribes to serve as the basis for election and created the Council of 500.

Question 10

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.

Answer 10

Women and immigrants were allowed to vote.

Question 11

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.

Answer 11

The Greeks of Ionia, modern-day Turkey, wanted independence and rebelled against Persia.

Question 12

Which of the following was not a Persian War battle?

Thermopylae

Marathon

Sardis

Salamis

Answer 12

Sardis

Question 13

.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.

Answer 13

Xerxes signed the Treaty of Salamis.

Question 14

Who led the Delian League?

Sparta

Persia

Athens

Plutarch

Answer 14

Athens

Question 15

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.

Answer 15

Pericles died during a conflict with Sparta.

Question 16

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.

Answer 16

All of Greece was conquered by Persia.

Question 17

the process of using what you know to infer new facts

Answer 17

Logic

Question 18

a philosopher who believed that people could learn best by asking questions

Answer 18

Socrates

Question 19

a philosopher who thought that every material object in the world was only the reflection of a perfect ideal

Answer 19

Plato

Question 20

a philosopher who believed that the greatest good people could do was to practice rational thought

Answer 20

Aristotle

Question 21

a poet who wrote epic poems that eventually became the basis for the Greek education system

Answer 21

Homer

Question 22

historian who used primary sources and analyzed his sources critically

Answer 22

Thucydides

Question 23

wrote tragic plays that described the suffering that people brought upon themselves

Answer 23

Sophocles

Question 24

the massive temple to Athena that demonstrates the Athenian love of visual beauty

Answer 24

Parthenon

Question 25

True or False

Alexander the Great conquered the Persian empire.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

True or False?

The Egyptians despised Alexander and worked with Phoenicia and Persia to keep Alexander out of Africa.

Answer 26

False

Question 27

True or False

Alexandria, a city in Egypt, became a center of culture and learning.

Answer 27

True

Question 28

True or False

Women had more rights during the Hellenistic period

Answer 28

True

Question 29

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.

Answer 29

True

Question 30

True or False

Archimedes formulated many of the basic ideas for geometry

Answer 30

False

Question 31

True or False

Love stories became a popular form of literature during the Hellenistic period

Answer 31

True

Question 32

True or False

Eratosthenes calculated the size of the world by using careful observations and simple geometry.

Answer 32

True