Chapter 8 - Quiz 2

Question 0

How did Greece put into action the new confidence they had gained in defeating the Persians?

Answer 0

Restoring their cities

Question 1

Punishment where you ban someone is called?

Answer 1

ostracism

Question 2

What were the consequences of the Peloponnesian War for Greece?

Answer 2

Athens lost its democracy, The “glory that was Greece” would never return. (Sparta had Oligarchy)

Ruined cities and farms

Question 3

The most famous leader of the democracy in Athens was ______. He is considered one of the greatest public speakers of all time?

Answer 3

Pericles

Question 4

Pericles is considered one of the greatest public speakers of all time. Another word for public speaker is?

Answer 4

Orator

Question 5

Pericles helped rebuild Athens after Xeres destroyed it. The _______ is a hill overlooking the city, was the center of religious life in Athens.

Answer 5

Acropolis. (Op-paaaaaa)

Question 6

Because of his influence in Athens during the fifth century BC, the period is often called the ______ of ______?

Answer 6

Age of Pericles

Question 7

The Greek City-State grew stronger after the Persian War. Athens formed an alliance with many city­states. The alliance was called the ______ League!

Answer 7

Alliance = Delian League

Question 8

True or False: Sparta and Athens formed an alliance when Sparta joined the Delian League?

Answer 8

False

Question 9

Some city­states took sides with Sparta (not Athens) and formed a different alliance called the __________ League?

Answer 9

Peloponnesian League.

Question 10

In 431 BC, Athens and Sparta went to war with each other with their allies. Because most of the fighting took place on the Peloponnesus, the war is called the ___________ War.

How long did this war last?

Answer 10

Peloponnesian War

27 years

Question 11

After truce between Athens and Sparta, Athens attacked Sicily and started war with Sparta again. who final,y won the war, and why did they win it

Answer 11

Sparta joined forces with the Persians (Greeks’ enemy). Persia gave money to Sparta to build a navy. Spartan navy took control of Hellespont, blocking Athenian ships from bringing food and supplies into Athens. In 404 BC, Athens was forced to surrender.

Question 12

Much of what we know of the Peloponnesian War comes from a historian named __________? He lived through the war.

Answer 12

Thucydides (thoo SID uh deez)

Question 13

Both Herodotus and Thucydides were historians that lived at the same time….. What made them Different?

Answer 13

Thucydides more accurate when recording events. Unlike Herodotus, he tried not to include any information that sounded biased or farfetched.

Question 14

How did the beliefs of Greek religion differ from those of Greek philosophy?

Answer 14

The Greek religion encouraged the worship of imagined gods and goddesses.

Greek philosophers worshiped wisdom, reason, and man’s ability to think for himself.

Question 15

The Greeks believed there were many different gods. They believed these gods lived on ______ _______, the highest mountain in Greece.

Answer 15

Mount Olympus

Question 16

The Greeks made up fanciful stories about their gods and goddesses. These stories are called ______?

Answer 16

Myths

Question 18

Match God with myth (study photo)

Zeus
Hera
Aphrodite
Apollo
Ares
Poseidon
Hades
Athena (Athens)

Answer 18

Zeus = king of Gods
Hera = queen of Gods
Aphrodite = goddess of love and beauty
Apollo = god of Sun, music
Ares = God of War
Poseidon = god of the Sea
Hades = god of the underworld
Athena (Athens)

Question 19

These people wanted to explain life by their own wisdom, not by the actions of gods. These men were called ________? (Lover of wisdom)

Answer 19

philosophers.

“philosopher” comes from the Greek word “philosophos”, which means “lover of wisdom.”

Question 21

Socrates’ student was ______. He wrote books in the form of conversations. He also taught that there was a spiritual world of the mind and of ideas, which was superior to the physical world?

Answer 21

Plato

Question 22

Plato wrote books in the form of a conversation which said the ideal government was ruled by a few of the most intelligent men. These books were called?

Answer 22

Dialogues (conversations)

Question 23

Plato’s student _____ believed science was the most important academic subject. He intro­duces the scientific method?

Answer 23

Aristotle

Question 24

This famous Greek philosopher taught by asking questions. He encouraged his students to seek truth by using human reason (not myths)?

Answer 24

Socrates

“What is the meaning of life”

“What makes a good man?”

Question 26

What did the myths tell about the gods?

Answer 26

That Gods were like humans. The actions of the gods affected events in nature and the lives of humans. Myths explained sunrise and sunset, thunder and lightning, changing seasons, and constellations

Question 27

** study photo from activity manual ***

Answer 27

Photos