Chapter 3 - Greece And Rome

Question 0

The Minoan civilization was located on what island

Answer 0

Crete

Question 1

What was the dominant city on the Attica peninsula

Answer 1

Athens

Question 2

Where is Magna Graecia

Answer 2

Southern Italy, Sicily

Question 3

What did the Greeks called their heavily colonized area of Asia minor

Answer 3

Ionia

Question 4

How did colonization influence a sense of cultural identity among the Greeks

Answer 4

Fostered a Panhellenic spirit

Question 5

What event led Sparta becoming a military state

Answer 5

Rebellion of helots

Question 6

What were hoplites.

Answer 6

Greek warriors

Question 7

In the Athenian Empire what was required of dependent states

Answer 7

To pay tribute

Question 8

What were the warships of ancient Greece

Answer 8

Trireme

Question 9

What was the importance of Acropolis in Athens

Answer 9

Served as a religious and Civic Center

Question 10

What were Thucydides views on human nature

Answer 10

Human nature’s unchanging in an educated historian could predict the future

Question 11

The earliest Aegean civilization was located on

Answer 11

Crete

Question 12

Homers epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey refer primarily to what period Greek history

Answer 12

Archaic

Question 13

Polis means

Answer 13

City

Question 14

According to legend the Greeks finally destroyed the city of Troy using

Answer 14

A wooden horse

Question 15

Who founded colonies before and during the Greek colonial period

Answer 15

Phoenicians

Question 16

Aristotle valued the Polis very highly because he thought only the polis provided what

Answer 16

Law and Justice

Question 17

Sparta was located on what Peninsula

Answer 17

Peloponnesus

Question 18

What is a Hoplite Phalany

Answer 18

A disciplined closed fighting formation

Question 19

Sparta was a ____ state

Answer 19

Military

Question 20

In Spartan government, the _______ represented the democratic element.

Answer 20

Assembly

Question 21

The Athenian aristocrat who seized power and created a tyranny was

Answer 21

Pisistratus

Question 22

The myth of Persian invincibility was broken at

Answer 22

Marathon

Question 23

Spartans and Athens fight each other in the

Answer 23

Peloponnesian War

Question 24

The Delian League was created under

Answer 24

Athens leadership

Question 25

The primary cause of the Peloponesian war was

Answer 25

Athens growing domination over the other city states.

Question 26

Greek historian who wrote History of the Persian Wars

Answer 26

Herodotus

Question 27

Athenian who wrote the history of the Peloponesian war

Answer 27

Thucydides

Question 28

Developed a teaching system which employed students reasoning to help them learn

Answer 28

Socrates

Question 29

In their effort to uncover the will of the gods, the ancient Greeks made us of

Answer 29

Oracles

Question 30

One of the Hellenistic kingdoms that succeeded Alexander was that of the

Answer 30

Ptolemies in Egypt

Question 31

Alexander was forced to end his conquest in India because of

Answer 31

Mutiny

Question 32

Rome was located on the plain of

Answer 32

Latium

Question 33

The people who governed Rome at the outset of its history were

Answer 33

Etruscans

Question 34

The government of Rome was originally a monarchy but later became a

Answer 34

Republic

Question 35

The class of noble landowners who dominated Roman society and politics were

Answer 35

Patricians

Question 36

During the early republic, the Roman _______ had control over the finances and foreign policy

Answer 36

Senate

Question 37

The chief executive officers of the Roman Republic were

Answer 37

Consuls

Question 38

The defenders of the plebeians were known as

Answer 38

Tribunes

Question 39

Rome’s treatment of conquered Italian cities promoted loyalty by granting Roman

Answer 39

Citizenship

Question 40

The first Punic was was waged between ________ and Rome over control of the island of _____.

Answer 40

Carthage. Sicily.

Question 41

In early Roman government the ______ ___ included common citizens.

Answer 41

Curiale Assemby

Question 42

The Roman general who began a new system of military recruitment was

Answer 42

Marius

Question 43

Large plantations used for growing cash crops and worked by slaves were

Answer 43

Latifundia

Question 44

Tiberius Gracchus sought to solve the problems facing the Roman republic through

Answer 44

Land reform

Question 45

The Roman general who returned from Spain as a military hero was

Answer 45

Pompey

Question 46

The first Triumvirate was composed of

Answer 46

Caesar, Pompy, and Crassus

Question 47

After defeating the assassins of Caeser, Octavians main rival for power was

Answer 47

Marc Anthoney

Question 48

Established the Praetorian Guard to guard him and his successors

Answer 48

Octavian

Question 49

The most important basis of Augustus power was the

Answer 49

Army

Question 50

The poet Ovid wrote love elegies and was banished by

Answer 50

Augustus

Question 51

Were deemed vital by the government as it diverted the mass of the population from potentially political or riotous activities

Answer 51

Gladiatorial Games

Question 52

The key figure in the spread of Christianity outside of the Jewish community was

Answer 52

Paul of Tarsus

Question 53

The first Roman emperor to adopt Christianity was

Answer 53

Constantine

Question 54

What power did the imperium give to Roman Kings

Answer 54

The right to issues commands and to enforce them.

Question 55

What were the duties of the censor

Answer 55

To conduct a census and create citizen rolls.

Question 56

What was the land north of the Daube River

Answer 56

Germania

Question 57

Rich men who could qualify to serve in the Roman cavalry

Answer 57

Equestrians

Question 58

The Greeks decisively defeated the Persians at

Answer 58

Salamis

Question 59

The leading cultural center of the Hellenistic world

Answer 59

Alexandria