Chapter 3: The Greek Civilization

Question 1

Geography played a critical role in the development of _______ history.

Answer 1

Greek

Question 2

What civilization had “modern” plumbing in their palace?

Answer 2

Minoan

Question 3

Who was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey?

Answer 3

Homer

Question 4

The leading commercial center of the early mainland Aegean civilization was ___.

Answer 4

Troy

Question 5

Homer was a ____.

Answer 5

Poet

Question 6

What played a dominant role in forming Greek culture?

Answer 6

Greek Mythology

Question 7

Who was the ancient Greek Olympic Games originally held in honor of?

Answer 7

Zeus

Question 8

What term refers to a rule by a few?

Answer 8

Oligarchy

Question 9

What was the basic political unit of Greece?

Answer 9

Polis

Question 10

What were three forms of government that was experienced by the Greek city-states?

Answer 10

Monarchy, oligarchy, and democracy

Question 11

Sparta formed which league to protest against foreign invasion and to prevent tyranny and democracy?

Answer 11

Peloponesian

Question 12

What leader took Athens a step toward democracy?

Answer 12

Solon

Question 13

What leader established a true “rule by the people” for Athens?

Answer 13

Pericles

Question 14

What was the chief magistrate in Athens called?

Answer 14

Archon

Question 15

Darius I did not defeat what group of people?

Answer 15

Atheians

Question 16

What King of the Persians led attacks against the Greeks at the battles of Thermopylae and Salamis Bay?

Answer 16

Xerxes

Question 17

What occurred at the Battle of Thermopylae?

Answer 17

The Greeks were betrayed and the Persians were able to overpower them.

Question 18

Alexander the Great defeated the Persian army who was led by who?

Answer 18

Darius III

Question 19

Who was the Father of Philosophy?

Answer 19

Thales of Miletus

Question 20

Who took the motto of “Know thyself”?

Answer 20

Socrates

Question 21

What type of culture permeated the Near East from the death of Alexander until the Roman dominance?

Answer 21

Hellenistic

Question 22

Who was the author of the Republic?

Answer 22

Plato

Question 23

__________ and __________ had different philosophies of life that differed on their views of happiness.

Answer 23

Epicureans and Stoics

Question 24

Who was the Father of Medicine?

Answer 24

Hippocrates

Question 25

Who was the Father of Geometry?

Answer 25

Euclid

Question 26

Who developed syllogism?

Answer 26

Aristotle

Question 27

Who was a Greek philosopher and mathematician in the sixth century, B.C., who concluded that the universe could be explained in mathematical terms?

Answer 27

Pythagoras

Question 28

Who was the Father of History?

Answer 28

Herodotus

Question 29

Who was a historian of the Peloponnesian War?

Answer 29

Thucydides

Question 30

Who was an astronomer and geographer?

Answer 30

Eratosthenes

Question 31

Tragedy and Comedy are two forms of Greek ______.

Answer 31

dramas

Question 32

Which building in Athens is dedicated to the goddess Athena?

Answer 32

Parthenon

Question 33

Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian refer to Greek what?

Answer 33

Architectural orders