Chapter 5

Question 1

direct democracy

Answer 1

a form of government in which citizens rule directly and not through representatives

Question 2

classical art

Answer 2

values of order, balance, and proportion became standards for art

Question 3

tragedy

Answer 3

serious drama about common themes such as love, hate, war or betrayal

Question 4

comedy

Answer 4

contained scenes of slap-stick situations and crude humor

Question 5

Peloponnesian War

Answer 5

war between two city-states, Sparta and Athens

Question 6

philosophers

Answer 6

“lovers of wisdom”, people who were determined to seek the truth no matter where it took them

Question 7

Socrates

Answer 7

one of the strongest critics of the Sophists

Question 8

Plato

Answer 8

a student of Socrates, wrote “The Republic” and set forth his vision of a perfectly governed society

Question 9

Aristotle

Answer 9

a philosopher that questioned the nature of the world and human, belief, thought and knowledge. Invented method for arguing using rules of logic