Chapter 5 Flashcards
The Bronze Age was characterized by which of the following?
Use of bronze tools and weapons
Massive palaces
Forms of writing (Linear A and Linear B) for keeping lists and palace inventories
Why was it called the “Dark Ages”?
The monumental palaces of the Mycenean period disappeared
A general poverty and loss of culture throughout the Greek World
The Linear A and Linear B writing systems disappear
Which period is the earliest period for which written evidence survives and is also the age of
the rise of the Greek city-states, colonization, and the Persian Wars?
Archaic Period
During which period did the Peloponnesian War occur?
Classical Period
Which great Greek poet wrote such epics as Iliad and Odyssey?
Homer
During the Bronze Ages, who is considered to be the first literate civilization in Europe?
Minoans
What was one positive outcome of the Dark Ages?
Emergence of the Greek alphabet
What was the name given to the cultural identity whereby all Greeks saw themselves
connected by virtue of their common language, religion, and Homeric values?
Pan-Hellenic identity
During the Archaic Period, what was the central unit of organization in the Greek world?
Polis
To be successful, the hoplite phalanx required what?
All soldiers in the line to work together as a whole.
The use of the hoplon (round shield) to protect his left side and the right side of his
comrade to the left.
Execution of the othismos (a massive shove) during battle.
In Greek religion, who was the king of the gods and god of weather?
Zeus
As lawgiver, Solon created what form of government for Athens during the Archaic Period?
Democratic constitution
What form of government was used in Sparta during the Archaic Period?
Oligarchy
In the Greek city-states’ definitions of citizenship, while they were not citizens themselves,
why were women considered important to the polis?
They produced citizens.
What was a lasting effect of the Persian Wars during the Archaic Period?
Cemented Pan-Hellenic identity.
Showed the Greek military superiority over the Persians.
Showed Athens in a new light to the rest of the Greeks.
During the Classical Period, Athenian statesman Pericles did all of the following EXCEPT
Moved the Delian League treasury from Delos to Sparta
What was the spark that ignited the First Peloponnesian War?
Sparta was jealous of the growing wealth and power of Athens
What significant changes in the government did Athens make during the Peloponnesian War?
Became more democratic
What significant changes in the government did Sparta make during the Peloponnesian War?
Ended its policy of isolationism
Who was one of the most prominent philosophers of the ancient world?
Socrates
Theban military supremacy relied on what new innovations?
Longer spears
Wedge formation
Theban Sacred Band
King Philip II of Macedon transformed the Macedonian military by improving upon the
Theban military innovations in all of the following ways EXCEPT
Replaced the Theban wedge formation with a heavy calvary
Which Macedonian leader reshaped Greece and the rest of ancient Eurasia by spreading
Greek culture farther than anyone else before him?
Alexander
Which kingdom proved to be the longest lasting and most successful of the kingdoms carved
from Alexander’s initial empire after the War of the Diadochi?
Ptolemaic Dynasty
What Greek mathematician created the discipline of geometry?
Euclid
What Greek scientist created a screw pump and a variety of war machines, including the heat
ray?
Archimedes
What Greek philosopher argued for empiricism, the belief that knowledge is acquired from
sensory experiences rather than from intuition?
Aristotle
