Chapter 2

Question 1

Were brought back to build their massive temples and cities

Answer 1

Conquered people

Question 2

Were among the most ruthless of the ancient middle east

Answer 2

Assyrian Rulers

Question 3

The largest empire of the ancient world to that point

Answer 3

Cyrus The Great (Kings of Kings)

Question 4

The Persians, military strengths and culture toleration were the foundations for

Answer 4

Maintaining order in the empire

Question 5

Governors duties include

Answer 5

• Keeping Order
• Enrolling troops
• Sending revenue to royal treasure

Question 6

The world is an arena for an ongoing battle for control between divine forces of good and evil

Answer 6

Moral dualism

Question 7

Israelites had to follow a strict religious and moral code

Answer 7

The 10 Commandments

Question 8

Throughout this period Jewish prophets preaches their defends were divine punishment for

Answer 8

Negated the Sinai covenant and mistreating the poor

Question 9

The creation of ________ ______ was the most crucial development for the history not only of Judaism but also Christianity and Islam

Answer 9

Sacred Text

Question 10

The mycenaean period became the historical setting of much of ancient Greek

Answer 10

Literature and Mythology

Question 11

The mycenaeans valued war more than

Answer 11

Religion

Question 12

the Greeks that emerged had lost their writing, eventually adopting the

Answer 12

Phoenician Empire

Question 13

Competitive individual execellance

Answer 13

Arete

Question 14

Greece’s most famous author, Homer who wrote the epic poem’s

Answer 14

The Iliad and the Odyssey

Question 15

the major Theme uniting the Iliad and the Odyssey is

Answer 15

Do not under any circumstances incur the wrath of the gods

Question 16

The Greeks called their lands ____ and themselves ________

Answer 16

Hellas, Hellenes

Question 17

They value

Answer 17

Excellence

Question 18

The Polis

Answer 18

An independent community of citizens inhabiting a city and the surrounding countryside

Question 19

the Mediterranean climate and the steepness of the terrain limited

Answer 19

Crops and how much of them could be grown

Question 20

Population increases usually led to population exodus
As a Result

Answer 20

Greek colonies throughout the Mediterranean and black sea

Question 21

They also valued

Answer 21

Self-Sufficiency or individualism

Question 22

The Greek Polis was unique in that it was based on the concept of

Answer 22

Citizenship for all its free males

Question 23

The 3rd thing they valued was

Answer 23

Civic Virtue

Question 24

There were 3 types of government, in Greek city-states

Answer 24

• Tyrannies
• Oligarchies
• Democracies

Question 25

Most common form of gov. In Archaic Greek

Answer 25

Oligarchies

Question 26

Greek honored the gods through publicly funded religious activities called

Answer 26

Cults

Question 27

The most important Oracle in greece was the

Answer 27

Oracle of Delphi

Question 28

Sparta, Organized its society with laws directed at a single purpose

Answer 28

Military Readiness

Question 29

Primitive loyalty was to the _____ not the biological family
- Discipline was harsh

Answer 29

Group

Question 30

Helots

Answer 30

Slaves of the spartan city-state who were Greek in origin

Question 30

This trained him for the one honorable occupation for spartan men

Answer 30

An obedient soldier

Question 31

The spartan gov. was an Oligarchy, consisting of three components

Answer 31

• 2 hereditary prestigious military leaders (called Kings) who served as both the states religious heads and generals of the army
• A council of 28 elders over the age of 60 they make laws
• 5 annually elected magistrates or Ephors (overseers) who made policy and enforced laws

Question 32

Who became magistrates and judges and run the judicial system by rendering verdicts in disputes and criminal accusations

Answer 32

Archons

Question 33

Cleisthenes

Answer 33

Father of Athenian Democracy

Question 34

Whereby a vote from more than 6000 of the citizens would exile a citizen for 10 years

Answer 34

Ostracism